Nicholas Sebastian Simon
Nikolaus Sebastian Simon ( French : Nicolas Sébastien Simon ; * July 1, 1749 in Colmar ; † March 4, 1802 in Aachen ) was a French lawyer and politician and the first prefect in the Département de la Roer .
Live and act
After studying law, Simon first went through a legal career. From 1792 to 1795 he was elected mayor of Colmar and took over as director of the central administration of the Haut-Rhin department . From April 12, 1799 to December 26, 1799 he was a member of the Council of Five Hundred . After the coup d'état of 18th Brumaire VIII (November 9, 1799), Simon was appointed President of the Criminal Court and from June 13, 1800, Judge at the Cour d'appel de Colmar and, thanks to his excellent knowledge of German, was responsible for the predominantly German-speaking departments of Bas -Rhin and Haut-Rhin responsible.
During the time of the French consulate , Simon was appointed first prefect of the Département de la Roer on July 22, 1800 by Napoléon Bonaparte , after this had previously been headed by a commissioner as part of the Cisrhenan Republic . Simon took up his new post on August 9, 1800 , which was based in the London court at today's Aachener Kleinkölnstrasse number 18. After the Peace Treaty of Luneville of February 9, 1801, the department was officially annexed and structured according to the French model. Simon's main tasks during this time included the resolution of a number of land reforms, the reorganization of the communities and the appointment of mayors and members of parliament. At the end of 1801 he also founded the "Société d'émulation pour l'agriculture, le commerce, les sciences et les arts", a society for the promotion of agriculture, trade, science and art.
In August 1801, Simon fell seriously ill with tuberculosis and died of it on March 4, 1802. From his illness until the official assumption of office by Alexandre Méchin in September 1802, Simon’s Prefectural Councilor Johann Friedrich Jacobi managed his official business as interim prefect.
Simon was regarded by his employees as conscientious and hardworking, but got into conflict with many contemporaries because of his pedantry and distrust. He found his final resting place in Aachen's Ostfriedhof and the last prefect of the Roer-Département, Jean Charles François de Ladoucette , had a funerary monument erected in his honor around 1810, which is no longer preserved.
literature
- Thomas R. Kraus : On the way to the modern age - Aachen in the French time 1792/93. 1794–1814 , Verlag des Aachener Geschichtsverein , Aachen 1994, p 174, u. a .; ISBN 3-9802705-1-3
- Ingeborg Schild , Elisabeth Janssen: The Aachener Ostfriedhof , Verlag Mayersche Buchhandlung , Aachen 1991, ISBN 3-87519-116-1 . P. 146
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simon, Nikolaus Sebastian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simon, Nicolas Sébastien (French) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer and prefect in the Département de la Roer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1749 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colmar |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1802 |
| Place of death | Aachen |