Michael Friedrich Erdmann Heym

Michael Friedrich Erdmann Heym (born November 7, 1761 in Lieberose ; † July 26, 1842 in Guben ) was a German mayor .

Life

Michael Friedrich Erdmann Heym was the son of the customs collector Karl Joachim Erdmann Heym (born November 7, 1735 in Lieberose; † October 20, 1794 there) and his wife Johanna Katharina (January 26, 1741; † October 26, 1804 in Lieberose), daughter of the preacher Sinner from Atterwasch . His great-grandfather Jeremias Heym (born December 24, 1663 in Suhl ; † 1716) and his grandfather Michael Heym (born June 13, 1697; † 1776) were mayors of Lieberose.

He left his parents' house in 1773 to visit the Lyceum in Guben, which was then rector Johann Gottlob Thierbach (1736–1782). On April 12, 1780, he enrolled as a law student at the University of Leipzig and finished his studies on April 21, 1784.

On May 1, 1784 he was appointed notary . Thereupon the upper office government (supreme judicial and administrative authority instead of the old Landvogteiamt ) in Lübben committed him to the notary on June 25th, 1784 and on October 30th of the same year to the advocate of the margraviate Niederlausitz . At his request, he received approval from the municipal authorities of the district town of Guben to operate the legal practice. In Guben he was made city ​​clerk on January 5, 1786 , and on the same day he received the citizenship of the city of Guben, which everyone who held a city office received. In 1796 he became town counsel and in 1813 he was elected mayor of Guben and in January 1814 he was elected elector of Niederlausitz in the state parliament in Lübben . In 1831 he gave up the post of state elder, but after his dismissal on December 15, 1832, he received the associated salary for life; In the same year the Prussian town order was introduced in Guben, so that he left the Guben magistrate, but with the assurance of a pension.

Michael Friedrich Erdmann Heym was married to Korona Eleonora, daughter of the preacher Crecov from Straupitz and great-granddaughter of the former rector of the Guben School, Sigismund Cleemann, since September 18, 1787 . Of his five children, only the youngest daughter and his youngest son survived:

• Wilhelmine Friederike Heym (born June 27, 1788; † June 21, 1828 in Beinrodiz in Russia ), married to the Imperial Russian State Councilor Dr. from Rouanet;
• Karoline Emilie Auguste (born December 3, 1792, † December 25, 1830 in Guben);
• Charlotte Philippine Heym (born July 13, 1798; † unknown), married to Lieutenant General Ernst von Manstein ;
• Rudolf Ewald Heym (born August 10, 1800 in Guben; † July 5, 1838 in Bad Reinerz ), royal Prussian higher regional judge;
• Albert Heym (born November 1, 1808 in Lieberose, † December 9, 1878 in Potsdam ), court preacher and pastor of the four last Prussian kings .

Honors

On December 22nd, 1838, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia the title of royal councilor of justice .

literature

• Michael Friedrich Erdmann Heym . In: Neues Lausitzisches Magazin: Journal of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences . Oettel, 1846. pp. 175 f.