Municipality of Hamm
The municipality of Hamm was established in 1808 as part of the administrative reform in the Grand Duchy of Berg at the municipal level. Mayor Johann Friedrich Christian Spener , assisted by two councilors, was at the head of the administration of Hamm Municipality . The municipal council acted as an advisory body .
The municipal council of the municipality of Hamm was the municipal advisory body that was introduced during the reorganization of the municipal constitution in the Grand Duchy of Berg. The members were appointed in Hamm in 1808. They only had an advisory role. At the head of the administration - following the French model - was the mayor, assisted by two councilors. When Hamm was reintegrated into the Kingdom of Prussia , the Bergische municipal constitution remained in place, the municipal council only became the municipal council. Its members were still appointed - mostly for life. Only after the Westphalian Provincial Parliament had announced the introduction of the revised city ordinance on December 30, 1834, were elections to the local council held in Hamm for the first time in 1835.
literature
- Thomas Vormbaum: Autonomy, Centralism and Self-Administration. The Westphalian municipal constitution and its application in Hamm from the end of the Old Prussian period to the introduction of the revised town order (1700-1835) . In: Herbert Zink (Ed.): 750 years of the city of Hamm . Hamm 1976, pp. 255-292.
- Friedrich Johannes Wienstein: Hammer mayor in distress. Blackened in Paris in 1812 because of the Prussian rally . In: Westfälischer Anzeiger and Kurier of May 17, 1961.