Karl August Wilhelm Bertram

Karl August Wilhelm Bertram (* 12. May 1788 in Halle an der Saale ; † 11. August 1868 ibid ) was a German local politician and 1842-1855 Mayor of the City Hall . He represented the city from 1843 as a deputy in the state parliament of the Province of Saxony , in 1846 in the Prussian General Synod and from 1847 in the United State Parliament of the Kingdom of Prussia .

Life

family

Karl August Wilhelm was the son of the physician and city ​​physician August Wilhelm Bertram (born August 18, 1752 in Seehausen in the Altmark ). His father became associate professor on March 8, 1787 and was full professor at the medical faculty of the University of Halle from January 29, 1788 . However, he died completely unexpectedly, before the birth of Karl August Wilhelm, on March 25, 1788 in Halle. His mother, née Rambach, was the sister of the office director in Breslau, Friedrich Gotthilf Rambach. Karl August Wilhelm's older brother Karl Wilhelm Bertram († September 14, 1841), like he was in the Prussian state service, as a councilor in Magdeburg .

Professional background

Karl August Wilhelm attended the city high school in his hometown and later studied law at the University of Halle. After the defeat of Prussia by Napoleon and the closure of the university in 1806, he was taken into custody for a few weeks by the French occupying forces for patriotic activities. He went to Weimar and worked there at the institution founded by Friedrich Justin Bertuch . In 1808 Bertram returned to Halle and was employed in the Halle district of the Kingdom of Westphalia in the same year . In March 1813 he received the office of mayor of the canton of Dieskau . Even after Halle and the Saalkreis were reintegrated into the Prussian state, he initially remained district administrator.

In 1817 the suburbs of Neumarkt and Glaucha were incorporated into Halle, making the formation of a new magistrate necessary. The local council elected Bertram as a paid councilor in 1818, and he was given responsibility for the military and local authorities. In the same year he became director of the newly established calibration commission. He made great contributions to the construction of the St. Cyriaci Hospital in Glaucha, the foundation stone of which was laid in 1825. Since 1838 he was mayor and from 1842 mayor of Halle, in the office of mayor he was confirmed by the Prussian crown six months later. Together with Ludwig Wucherer , Bertram was one of the founding members of the Chamber of Commerce for Halle and the Saalkreis in 1844. In 1845, Bertram received the title of royal Prussian secret government councilor for his services .

From 1843 he represented the city of Halle in the Saxon Provincial Parliament and in 1846 in the Prussian General Synod. A year later he became a deputy of the United State Parliament convened by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . After a lively discussion in the city council, on April 7, 1847, Bertram was asked to bring the city council meetings open, the abolition of the meal and slaughter tax, better representation of the cities in the state parliaments and the regular convocation of the United State Parliament on behalf of the city of Halle.

On February 7, 1855, he was re-elected as Lord Mayor of Halle for a second twelve-year term. But a short time later, on September 19, 1855, he had to resign due to illness. His services were honored with the Order of the Red Eagle, Third Class with Ribbon. Since then he has lived in seclusion in the house where he was born on Grosse Ulrichstrasse in Halle.

Marriage and offspring

Karl August Wilhelm Bertram married Caroline Sophie Schwetschke, the daughter of the Halle publisher Carl August Schwetschke , on November 22, 1821 . The couple had four children. Karl August Wilhelm Bertram died on August 11, 1868 at the age of 80 in Halle. He was buried in Halle's Stadtgottesacker , his grave is located in the inner field of Department II. Bertram had been a member of the Masonic lodge to the three swords in the Orient in Halle since 1809 .

literature

• FA Eckstein: History of the Masonic Lodge in the Orient of Halle. Page 279, Gebauersche Buchdruckerei, Halle 1844. ( digitized )
• Magistrate of the city of Halle (ed.): Administrative reports of the city of Halle an der Saale. First year, volume 1, page 181, Emil Barthel Verlag, Halle 1868. ( digitized )
• City of Halle (Saale), The Mayoress (Hrsg.): The Hallesche Stadtgottesacker. Unique cemetery complex from the German Renaissance. Page 26, hall 2003. ( digitized )

Web links

• Biography about Carl August Wilhelm Bertram (1788 - 1868) in www.buergerstiftung-halle.de