Joseph Philipp von Stichaner
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Joseph Philipp von Stichaner , with full name Joseph Philipp Carl Edler von Stichaner (born July 1, 1838 in Speyer , † April 14, 1889 in Strasbourg ) was a German administrative lawyer in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . He died at the age of 50 as District President of Lower Alsace .
origin
Stichaner’s grandfather Joseph von Stichaner had built up the administration in the Bavarian Rhine District from 1817 to 1832 . Philip's parents were the government councilor Joseph August von Stichaner (1799–1861) and Henriette geb. Lichtenberger (1816-1878); in his first marriage the father was married to her sister Eleonore (1809-1833). The Lichtenbergers were among the leading entrepreneurial families in Speyer and on the Rheinschanze . He lost his only brother Philibert (1842–1861) almost at the same time as his father.
Life
From 1857 to 1860, Stichaner studied law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg . He became a member of the Corps Rhenania Würzburg (1857) and the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg (1858). In 1863, after passing the state examination, he started a civil service career. From 1869 he was able to prove himself as an assessor at the district office of Germersheim . Just a year later, the Franco-Prussian War opened up completely new perspectives for him. Carl von Tauffkirchen-Guttenburg administered various French departments as civil commissioner. As the Count's representative, Stichaner often ran the business of the Meuse department in Bar-le-Duc independently . For this he was awarded the Iron Cross on a white ribbon .
After another job in Strasbourg, the 33-year-old Stichaner was appointed district director in Weissenburg on February 1, 1872 . His position was below that of a French sub-prefect and above that of a district administrator (at that time "district administrator") in the Palatinate homeland. In his district, today's Arrondissement Wissembourg , he particularly promoted agriculture and cattle breeding. Examples are fruit tree cultivation, improving crop rotation and the introduction of Simmental cattle . In Betschdorf he saved the local pottery from perishing. As a district director promoted the preservation of architectural monuments. He was particularly committed to St. Peter and Paul (Wissembourg) , for whom he donated a glass window and the wheel chandelier . In 1874 he bought the ruins of Fleckenstein Castle for himself and saved them from further deterioration. Stichaner also built a monument to himself with the building of the "Friedenskirche" by Frœschwiller . In September 1876, after completion, he visited it with Kaiser Wilhelm I.
As a Catholic candidate, he failed in the Reichstag election in 1878 because the clergy agitated against him. In contrast to the Strasbourg government, Stichaner was able to establish a good relationship with the citizens and the leading class loyal to France. Therefore, on November 15, 1886, he was appointed district president for the Lower Alsace district. Stichaner thus had the rank of district president, i.e. the same rank as his grandfather had held in the Palatinate (Bavaria) 54 years earlier . In Strasbourg, however, he faced a great number of adversities. As a result of years of overwork, he suffered the first stroke on December 3, 1888 , from which he was not to recover. 82 of 83 mayors of the Weissenburg district were able to attend his funeral.
marriage
On August 2, 1883, he married Seraphine Jordan, the daughter of the Deidesheim mayor and district administrator Ludwig Andreas Jordan (1811-1883), Bavarian member of the state parliament , member of the Reichstag and winery owner. His brother-in-law became Emil Bassermann-Jordan . The marriage remained childless. His cousins included Philipp Lichtenberger , member of the Reichstag and mayor, and Carl Spatz , builder and founding director of what is now the Museum Pfalzgalerie in Kaiserslautern .
history
Family heritage was also evident in the love of history. He supported the Alsatian research of the historian Johann Georg Lehmann . The Historical Association of the Palatinate , which his grandfather founded in 1827, was closed again after his grandfather left. The grandson and ten other comrades-in-arms therefore called for a successful re-establishment, which has endured to this day.
memory
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The city honored him in 1893 with a memorial stele at the former Hagenauer Tor. The five-meter-high monument with his portrait survived both world wars and is now adorned with a fountain. The square in front of it is called Place Stichaner . For the training of young craftsmen from the district, Stichaner left an endowment of 20,000 marks (1871) .
literature
- Friedrich v. Oertzen: Joseph von Stichaner, a picture of life from Alsace (with photo of Stichaner). Freiburg i. B. 1897.
- Johann Josef Hermann Schmitt: Stichaner, Joseph Philipp Karl Edler of . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 513-519.
- Rudolf H. Böttcher: Joseph Philipp von Stichaner . In: Lichtenberger family book . Unpublished manuscript, Li2T.
- Rudolf H. Böttcher: kinship table . In: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution, A contribution to the social history of a bourgeois revolution . PRFK (1999) 14 = 48, p. 279.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 143 , 106; 64 , 590
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stichaner, Joseph Philipp von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stichaner, Joseph Philipp Carl Edler von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer and district president of Lower Alsace |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Speyer |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1889 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |