Ludwig Carl Heinrich Streiber

Ludwig Carl Heinrich Streiber (born April 3, 1767 in Dessau , † March 5, 1828 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German lawyer . Streiber became a Prussian district administrator and was mayor of the city of Halle (Saale) from 1808 to 1827 .

Life

Family and education

Streiber was the son of a princely-Anhalt Acciserate , his mother was born von Wülcknitz. He lost both parents at an early age. He first attended the orphanage school in Halle and studied law at the University of Halle . In 1788 he was accepted into the Prussian judicial service and sworn in as an auscultator .

Professional background

In 1790 Streiber was appointed auditor and at the same time regimental quartermaster of the Prussian Fusilier Battalion No. 2. As such, he and his unit experienced the First Coalition War against France from 1792 to 1796 . He resigned from the military service and, first as assessor and rendant , took on a position with the royal service commission of the city of Halle, and later he was appointed director of the commission. For his services he received in December 1804 from King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia the character of a council of war .

After the defeat of Prussia by Napoleon during the Fourth Coalition War and the incorporation of the city of Halle into the Kingdom of Westphalia , Streiber was appointed Maire (Mayor) of Halle by the government of the Kingdom of Westphalia on July 6, 1808 . The Westphalian king and brother of Napoleon Jérôme Bonaparte awarded him the Order of the Westphalian Crown .

With the end of the Wars of Liberation , Halle was incorporated into the Prussian province of Saxony in 1815 and surrounding villages and manors were incorporated. As District Administrator and Lord Mayor, Streiber headed this administration until 1827. In addition, the Prussian Ministry of the Interior made him head of the city police. In 1818 he appointed the entrepreneur Ludwig Wucherer as an unpaid city ​​councilor and in 1822 as a treasurer in the magistrate of Halle. The Catholic priest Franz-Josef Vahron praised Streiber's commitment to the repair of war damage and the liberation of the church from civil taxes. In 1823 he approved the anatomist Johann Friedrich Meckel to exhumate an awarded corpse.

Streiber retired on January 1, 1828 and died on March 5, 1828, at the age of 60, of a stroke in Halle. In his honor, a street in Halle was named Streiberstrasse in 1885.

Marriage and offspring

Ludwig Carl Heinrich Streiber married Christine Caroline Hemmerde from Halle in 1795 († September 21, 1827). The couple had a son who also became a lawyer and district judge. After his father's death, he wrote an obituary about him, which was published in the New Nekrolog der Deutschen in 1830 .

literature

• Streiber: Carl Ludwig Heinrich Streiber. In: Georg Friedrich August Schmidt , Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (Ed.): New Nekrolog der Deutschen . 6th year, part 1, Voigt, Leipzig 1830, pages 173–175 ( digitized )

Web links

• Ludwig Carl Heinrich Streiber in the German biography
• Entry on Ludwig Carl Heinrich Streiber in Kalliope
• Community Foundation Halle: Education in passing - Ludwig Carl Heinrich Streiber