List of the Mayors of Eppingen

The list of heads of the city of Eppingen gives an overview of the mayors , mayors and mayors of the city of Eppingen from the 14th century to the present day.

At the head of the city of Eppingen stood the mayor , who was appointed by the sovereign. There was also a mayor elected by the citizens. There was also a council, which in the 18th century consisted of a town council and a lawyer school as well as six council members and a town clerk . In the 19th and 20th centuries, the mayor headed the city administration. Since the elevation to the major district town on January 1st, 2002, the mayor has been named mayor . He is supported by an alderman with the official title of mayor .

Mayor

Description of the office

Schultheißen were at the forefront of the Electoral Palatinate communities and cities as representatives of the state rulership . The mayor proclaimed the sovereign ordinances and supervised their implementation. In Eppingen, the mayor oversees the two mayors , the town clerk , the Büttel and all other town officials. The mayor presided over the city court and was also a collector , that is, he had to collect the income from the electoral spiritual property administration . Before the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) he had to perform services with his war horse for the official school in Bretten , for example the collection of stately taxes . The mayor's office in Eppingen existed until October 23, 1803, because at that time the Electoral Palatinate was abolished and the city of Eppingen came to the Margraviate of Baden . The activities were taken over by the Eppingen staff office, which became the Eppingen district office in 1813 .

The Eppinger mayor very often came from abroad. As a salary, he received a vacant residence, grain, clothing and a sum of money appropriate to the time.

list

Source: The list of mayors and mayors, including explanations, follows, unless otherwise stated, the essay by Franz Gehrig (see literature), which it mainly based on the copy books of the Karlsruhe General State Archives and the Electoral Palatinate servant books in the Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins ( ZGO NF 55).

Term of office	Mayor	Remarks
1316	Hartlieb	Hartlieb is named as mayor of Eppingen in 1316 when Heinrich Herterich von Bruchsal's son-in-law vouches for him.
1334	Heinrich Norsch	Norsch is named as mayor at the foundation of the early mass.
1365	Cuntz of Nypperg (Neipperg)
1408	Henricus called Norsche	Norsche received the office of mayor from the dean and chapter of the cathedral monastery Speyer.
1414	Hans Young
1418	Wilhelm Rücker
1473	Hans Flade
1512	Michell Storr
1513	Fritz Becker
1525	Peter Erbermann	Peter Erbermann is mentioned as mayor when he opens the town gate to Eppingen to the farmers on May 25, 1525. He was pastor in Eppingen until 1556, later in Heidelsheim and father of Hans Erbermann, who became mayor in 1605.
1525	Christof Wegwart	Christof Wegwart was mayor of Eppingen and, together with Hartmann Hartmanni and Melchior Marckart, wrote an intercession for Gutman Albrecht. In it, the Heilbronn council was asked for permission to allow Gutman to return to his relatives in Heilbronn: “Gutman Albrecht, cloth shearer, asks the council to let him come back to what is his or, if that cannot be the case, to let him answer -1525 July 18 St.A. Swabian Federation Hlbr. 97 Or. - A letter from the [Heidelberg] Doctor of Laws Hartmann Hartmanni, Christof Wegwarts, Schultheissen zu Eppingen, Melchior Marckarts, town clerk there, and other Eppinger and Heilbronn relatives of Gutmann to the council was unsuccessful "
1530 + 1540 + 1544	Wolf Becker called Daub	Wolf Becker's certificate of appointment reads as follows: “We Ludwig (Count Palatine and Elector) confess that we are our dear loyal Wolff Beckern called Daub to our mayor and knecht gein Eppingen and with a cracked horse from home and to everything and everything we do be practiced and especially in the office of Brethen, as long as he is our school hot in Eppingen, to wait off our at all times having there and schultheiß (official school hot at Bretten), and to accept this bit of revocation, also there faithfully school for his best have been able to prepare. Do this in this way in strengths diß brieffs, that is, that he is a common schultheiß, judge and teydinger (trustee, notary) geen the poor as the rich, strangers as homely (locals) and to help everyone to the right and fairness, not even in that special advantage do not look for favor, hatred, gifts or nothing else that would prevent this; He should also not take a present or let him take for his sake of things that are supposed to be dealt with outside a hune (chicken). a goose or a measure of wine, he may take it, whether it will be forever given to him, and not above it. To this end, he should treat our sovereignty, as much as one is owed, by old herkhomen, laws and customs faithfully to the best of his ability, and where he is unable to do (anything), he should at any time bring our faut to Bretheim, him to be helped, but where that didn’t begin to get to us, and in order to do such his service we should have every jars handed to him, started today, by our schooltop to boards of twenty gulden, six malter korns, twenty-five malter harbens and von I hope a summer smart how we dress the same. If he would require us (command) and come to dinner, he should have food and paint from us, like others are kept the same. He is said to have a free seat at Eppingen as well, to the extent that others are supposed to be called upon him by the end. Likewise, the small outrages should be revoked and obeyed, which he should record differently. We should also steen him for honest, torn damage and, wherever he takes him in our service, berries (compensate) according to our court custom; but when we want to unite with him, the acknowledgment of our court master, marchlk or captain, under whom he has received such damage, should be made and remain there. He praised us and swore an oath to God to be faithful to us and to be faithful to us, to warn our harm and to serve faithfully as he is entitled. Sealed to the original with our secret printed on the back, date Germersheim on the day of fifteen hundred thirty "
1552	Heinrich Rudlanth
1560	Sebastian Gerner the Elder	According to the ancestral sheet of the nobilitation of Abraham Gerner von Lilienstein by Emperor Ferdinant the Elder. III. from 1640 around 1530 a Sebastian Gerner is named as "Burgermeyster zue Eppingen", his father "Sebastian Gerner von Heydelßheym des Innern Rats zue Eppingen" is mentioned, a son follows him into office around 1590.
1571/1586	Leonhard Ritter
1589	Peter Manum
1590	Sebastian Gerner the Younger	His cousin Sebastian Gerner is called around 1590 as "of the interior council of Eppingen"
1595	Hans Benedikt Nothaft
1603	Jörg Höler
1605	Hans Erbermann	Son of Peter Erbermann, who was mentioned as mayor on May 25, 1525. Hans worked as a servant in the office of Bretten in 1572 and from 1585 he was employed as an office cellar on the Dilsberg. Erbermann is appointed on April 25, 1605 as "mayor with a huge horse by default".
1629	Peter Neß
1630	Heinrich Filtz
1638	Bernhard Lumpert	Lumpert is mentioned as mayor in Eppingen in 1638, when eight Malter Korn and 25 Malter Oats are billed for him. He is also mentioned as mayor for 1642. At the same time he held the office of collector. On January 12, 1649, he had his son "Philipp Bernhard" baptized. The Lumpert family remained important in Eppingen. Johann Jakob Lumpert was mayor from 1653 to 1665 and his son of the same name in 1673.
1649	Georg Ziegler	Ziegler had studied at the university and had a master's degree. In 1642 he worked as a lawyer. Ziegler was appointed mayor on October 10, 1649. However, he no longer held this office when he died as a collector on May 28, 1655.
1653-1665	Johann Jakob Lumpert	Lumpert was mayor and was also appointed collector on June 2, 1653. After his tenure in the Eppingen mayor's office, he was the official cellar in Hilsbach from 1665 to 1667 . He was the father of the eponymous JJ Lumpert, who was appointed mayor in 1673 and stabbed to death that same year.
1666-1667	Johannes Baptista Paravicini	Paravicini was born on May 6, 1632 in Basel as the son of JB Paravicini of the same name, who was the official cellar in Hilsbach and died in 1665. In addition to his position as mayor in Eppingen, Paravicini junior also held the office of collector, but moved away from Eppingen on August 28, 1667. In 1671 he worked as a magazine administrator in Mannheim. († January 7, 1691 in Eppingen, June 26, 1659 mayor, Zoller and land captain of Heidelsheim, mayor in Bretten and administrative administrator in Eppingen / Brettener Jahrbuch für Kultur und Geschichte 1964/65, p. 33)
1667-1673	Wilhelm Adam Reyger	In addition to his office in the mayor's office, Reyger also held the office of collector. He was withdrawn on April 4, 1673. In the years from 1671 to 1677 he also held the office in the winery as the official cellar in Hilsbach .
1673	Johann Jakob Lumpert	He was born as the son of the same name Lumpert (1653–1665). In 1667 and 1672 he worked as an official cellar in Boxberg and as a customs clerk in Biberach. Then he also worked as a collector in Eppingen. He was appointed mayor on February 22, 1673. Lumpert accused the town clerk Joh. Jörg Dieffenbacher of adultery, whereupon the accused stabbed the mayor on October 29, 1673.
1674-1678	Johann Wilhelm Welcker	In the years 1632 to 1649 a Johannes Welcker is named as town clerk in Sinsheim. He later also worked as a collector in Eppingen. He died on September 12, 1678.
1678-1683	Abraham Dauphin	In addition to his office as mayor in Eppingen, Dauphin also held the office of collector in the same city. On April 19, 1683 he worked as the official cellar in the Hilsbach winery.
1683-1690	Georg Adam Heckel	Heckel was the official cellar in Neckarelz from 1667 to 1669, then in 1677 he held the same office in Lohrbach. In 1683 he was appointed mayor in Eppingen and held this office for seven years. In 1695 he worked as a rogue clerk in Streichenberg. Later in 1702, he was a collector in Minnenberg before he died in Neckarelz in 1705.
1691	Johann Heinrich Petterkofer	On February 24, 1691, the mayor Petterkofer in Eppingen is mentioned as godfather. As there was a war there are only a few files in Eppingen about this period. The position in the mayor's office was also not filled for some time.
1694-1708	Johann Jakob Weigand	Weigand was related to the city school of Bad Wimpfen Nikolaus Weigand and belonged to a Lutheran family that remained important in Eppingen for 200 years. For eight years he worked as a mayor in Hilspach and as a "cellar" in Streichenberg. When he married the widow of the ox-keeper Gugenmus, he became known in 1689 as the "Herr Hauptmann und Ochsenwirt" in Eppingen. On October 7th, 1694 he applied to the elector "umb the mayor's office in Eppingen, which has now been vacant for several years", whereupon he was appointed mayor on November 3rd, 1694 and held this office until his death on June 23rd, 1708.
1708-1714	Johann Adolf Gedult	He served as a lieutenant under the Hahnische Regiment and was appointed mayor of Eppingen on July 4, 1708. As part of his work as mayor, he “liked to drink” and often failed to appear at the official meetings and hand over the desired “crime register” there.
1714-1732	Johann Vogt	Vogt was a lieutenant and served on horseback under the Nassau-Weilburg regiment on the Upper Rhine. On September 12, 1713, he was assigned to the mayor Johann Adolf Gedult as an adjunct (assistant). Vogt had previously applied for this position and stated in his application to "Esquadron-Lieutenant with apartment and goods in Eppingen for an honest livelihood". On February 4, 1714, Gedult ceded the office of mayor to Johann Vogt, because Gedult was "no longer of use with March and Remarchen" because of his inability. However, his salary was patiently retained and Vogt only received the "accidents" and the feed for the horse. Due to his 22-year service as a lieutenant under the Upper Rhine district of Nassau-Weilburg Regiment, he applied on September 7, 1716 as city governor of the city of Eppingen. On November 21, 1732, his son-in-law Johann Friedrich Reibelt was assigned to him as an adjunct (assistant).
1733-1748	Johann Friedrich Reibelt	He was Catholic and was born the son of a court chamber councilor. Reibelt was appointed chancellor at the electoral court chamber and in 1742 he carried the title of court chamber councilor. Just one year later, as part of his work, he was recommended to behave better towards his subjects. He was the son-in-law of the mayor Johann Vogt and was mayor himself until April 26, 1748 of Eppingen. A letter from Reibelt to the elector has come down to us. In it, he asks the city to support him with a building site for his “mansion”. His manor house also comprised “field goods and other commercio (trade)”, for which he had tenants, servants and day laborers: “Because there is no manor house in Eppingen in which a city school can live, and there is no house in the city in which one can join Reputation could live, but there are old houses threatening to invade, and because I have to build a house because of my field goods and other commercio, I decided to build a new house on a square in the city and to buy it from the city. The city court referred me to the Bretten District Office for this reason . Ask for a works expert who will inspect the place. "
1748-1750	Johann Matthias Momm	Momm was Catholic and worked as a retirement master in Weinheim. He was appointed mayor in Eppingen on May 3, 1748. During his office, the judiciary and property regime was recently severely neglected by the court members, which ruined the urban “economic system”. The mayor was buried on October 27, 1750.
1750-1777	Lorenz Guggenmus	He was born as the son of Johann Stephan Gugenmus, Kollektor and enrolled on April 17, 1736 at the University of Heidelberg. He was active as a collector of Reformed religion and continued to do so after his appointment as mayor. However, he ceded the office of collector in 1770 to his single brother Conrad Guggenmus. All three denominations in Eppingen had campaigned for his appointment to mayor because they hoped that Guggenmus would restore the city's “broken economy”.
1778-1798	Konrad Erckenbrecht
1798-1803	Philipp Reinecker	Since March 17, 1796, Reinecker has been the administrator of the town's school building and lost his property in Hasloch as "Faut" due to a war. He also first worked as a court judge in Eppingen, for which he was highly praised. In the course of his work, Reinecker complained about the "spite of the court relatives" and about the work with bankruptcies. In addition, he received a salary as a collector, although Lorenz Erckenbrecht was the manager of the collection. Erckenbrecht has already received a salary as an invoice registrar. When Reinecker retired on October 23, 1803, he was the last mayor in Eppingen. Reinecker spent the evening of his life in Ladenburg and in addition to his pension earned an extra income from the local nobility in Ilvesheim in 1811. He received a pension from the city of Eppingen until May 1, 1815 and died on January 25, 1820.

Mayor and Lord Mayor

Description of the office

The position of Stadtschultheissen was abolished in 1803, most of its activities were taken over by the newly established Eppingen staff office . Because of the population of Eppingen and the large number of disputes to be settled, the staff office advocated the appointment of a Lord Mayor for Eppingen on September 2, 1807, which was made possible by a constitutional edict of July 14, 1807. In 1808 Eppingen received its first mayor. Due to the Baden municipal code, the official title was changed to mayor in 1831. Since Eppingen's appointment as a major district town on January 1, 2002, the official title has been Lord Mayor again.

list

Term of office	Surname	comment
1808-1813	Heinrich Jakob Raußmüller	Lord Mayor
1813-1816	Carl Morano	Lord Mayor
1816-1831	Ludwig Lother	Lord Mayor
1831-1844	Friedrich Hochstetter	mayor
1844-1847	Johann Ludwig Raußmüller	mayor
1847-1859	Wilhelm Lother	mayor
1859-1866	Gustav Hochstetter	mayor
1866-1870	Ludwig Lother	mayor
1870-1878	Heinrich Raußmüller	mayor
1878-1890	Paul Bentel	mayor
1890-1894	Heinrich Schmelcher	mayor
1894-1903	Philipp Vielhauer	mayor
1903-1933	Albert Wirth	mayor
1933-1937	Karl Doll	mayor
1937-1945	Karl Zutavern	mayor
1945-1948	Jakob Dörr	mayor
1948-1966	Karl Thomä	mayor
1966-1980	Rudiger Peuckert	mayor
1980-2004	Erich Pretz	Mayor, Mayor from January 1, 2002
since 2004	Klaus Holaschke	Lord Mayor

See also

• List of town clerks in Eppingen

literature

• Franz Gehrig : The offices of the city of Eppingen and their owners . In: Around the Ottilienberg. Contributions to the history of the city of Eppingen and the surrounding area , Volume 2, Eppingen 1982, pp. 24-40.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Moriz von Rauch (arrangement): Document book of the city of Heilbronn . Volume IV. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1922 ( Württembergische Geschichtsquellen . Volume 20), p. 206, no. 2972