Karl Josef von Mylius

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Karl Josef Freiherr von Mylius

Karl Josef Freiherr von Mylius (born December 6, 1778 in Cologne ; † December 24, 1838 ibid) was a lawyer and Lord Mayor of Cologne.

biography

Origin and family

The family of Mylius is a very old family belonging to the aristocratic "patricians" of the former Free and Imperial City of Cologne, which held important city offices and was raised to the status of imperial baron in 1775 .

Mylius's parents were the major in royal Sardinian service and later councilor Hermann Joseph Freiherr von Mylius from Cologne and his wife Maria Elisabeth Walburga von Heinsberg .

Anton Ulrich Joseph von Mylius (born December 11, 1742 Cologne, † February 2, 1812 Prague ) and Caspar Josef Carl von Mylius (1749–1831), two of his father's brothers, served in the Austrian army and raised it to the rank of field marshal lieutenant .

In the 19th century the family split into two lines. The heads of the two male lines were:

Early years

Nothing is known about his childhood or school career. He studied law at the Universities of Cologne , Jena and Göttingen . He then joined the French municipal administration in his hometown on August 3, 1804 as an adjunct . On October 22nd of the same year he was appointed Prefectural Councilor of the Départements de la Roer to Aachen . This position promoted his career and five years later he was already serving as prefect ad interim of the Ems department of the Grand Duchy of Berg on the right bank of the Rhine in Münster . He held this office until the French occupation and division into the Département de l'Ems-Supérieur and the Département Ruhr on January 1, 1811. From February 6, 1812, he was Senate President at the Düsseldorf Court of Appeal .

As Lord Mayor of Cologne

Although Mylius, as a lawyer, highly appreciates the work at the Court of Appeal, he was nevertheless appointed by the governor of the Lower Rhine General Government, Johann August Sack, as the first, initially provisional, Lord Mayor of the city of Cologne. At the same time he also took over the chairmanship of the local chamber of commerce . Together with the province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg, Cologne had only just come to the Kingdom of Prussia during the territorial reorganization of the Congress of Vienna . Mylius' predecessor in office was Johann Jakob von Wittgenstein from 1803 .

Mylius went to his new office with great vigor and energy. Right at the beginning of his term of office, he arranged for a memorandum to be compiled with the wishes of the citizens of Cologne to the new Prussian rulers, including a liberal constitution , renewal of the stacking law , expansion of the city limits, relocation of important Rhenish authorities and relocation of the archbishop's seat to the city as well included the rebuilding of the university. In the summer of 1815 he himself traveled to Paris with a delegation of Cologne citizens to meet the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. deliver the memorandum yourself. He was denied an audience, however.

The university was not rebuilt; instead, Friedrich Wilhelm III donated. the university in Bonn . In the field of school policy and the poor, Mylius was able to record successes and achieve various improvements.

On April 12, 1816, Mylius welcomed the newly appointed Prussian district president of the Jülich-Kleve-Berg province, Friedrich zu Solms-Laubach, in Cologne. This was his direct superior. Solms-Laubach was the improvement of the Cologne police system a special concern, an area of ​​responsibility that was until then part of the mayor's authority.

As a result, the office of Cologne Police President was newly created by the Prussian provincial administration and Georg Karl Philipp von Struensee , a Protestant Prussian administrative officer who had previously been Magdeburg's Police President , was installed in the position. He took office in February 1817. As a result, a sharp conflict developed between the men, as Mylius authority was severely restricted by the office of Struensee. In addition, there were personal differences, as Struensee was adamant about Prussian interests and against Rhineland aspirations for sovereignty, as well as against the carnival, acted as a meticulous censor and set up an informal system for Prussia in the city.

In 1816 Mylius wanted to hire the Paris-trained architect Johann-Peter Weyer as a city architect in 1816, but his inauguration lasted until 1826 due to political disagreements.

The conflict and Mylius' failure to introduce an urban constitution were ultimately the reasons why Mylius gave up his mayor's office on August 31, 1819.

Return to the judicial service

Mylius then returned to his preferred judicial service, first becoming a councilor of appeal, then later as a secret councilor of the Senate of the Rhenish Court of Appeal in Cologne . However, he remained a member of the Rhenish provincial parliament and continued to advocate an urban municipal system and the retention of Rhenish law . In addition, Mylius was also the director of the administrative board of the Cologne high school and foundation fund .

Mylius received the Prussian recognition of the Freiherrnstand by ministerial rescript on August 12, 1826.

In 1831 Mylius was appointed president of the newly created third civil senate of the court of appeal.

In 1832 Mylius was a short-term candidate for the office of regional president of the Rhine Province , but was defeated by Karl Ruppenthal in early 1834 for religious reasons.

Thereupon Mylius remained President of the Senate at the Court of Appeal until his death.

Honors

Mylius received the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class. Myliusstraße in Cologne-Neuehrenfeld is named after him.

family

Mylius married Maria Walburga, born on September 22, 1812 in Cologne. Freiin Geyr von Schweppenburg , the daughter of the privy councilor Cornelius Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg and his wife Adelgundis, geb. From Beywegh. The couple had nine children, including Eberhard von Mylius (1813–1861), like his father a lawyer and chief procurator at the regional court in Cologne.

literature

  • Karin Hachenberg: The development of the police in Cologne from 1794 to 1871. Böhlau publishing house. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna. 1997. ISBN 3-412-03297-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. Karl Josef Bollenbeck: Urban planning based on the Parisian model ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Lecture from April 15, 2003 on Cologne architecture. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koelnarchitektur.de