Nikolaus Thilmany

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Johann Nikolaus Caesar Thilmany (born August 27, 1806 in Bitburg , † August 4, 1885 in Bonn ) was a Prussian administrative officer and district administrator of the Bitburg district .

Origin and life

Nikolaus Thilmany was a son of the notary Jean Baptist Thilmany and his wife Caroline, b. Stalking. After the matriculation examination in 1825 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Trier had taken off, he graduated from 1825 to 1828 at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg to study law . From 8 December 1829, he was initially Auskultator the Hofgericht Arnsberg and after he was there from February 1832 court clerk . From May 1832 he worked at the Trier Regional Court , where he was appointed as a court assessor on October 26, 1835 . In the same function, he worked at the Saarbrücken regional court from January 28, 1837 , until he was transferred as a district administrator to the Bitburg district on January 28, 1838 according to a transfer decree by means of the highest cabinet order (AKO). After his inauguration on April 5, 1838, he campaigned for the promotion of agriculture and the alleviation of the suffering of the population .

Politics and Suspension

In 1848 he came to the Frankfurt pre-parliament as the elected representative of Bitburg . Thilmany was very involved in the revolutionary movement and spoke at popular meetings. In Bitburg he was the chairman of the Democratic Association for some time. However, when his friendship with the left-wing democratic politician Karl Grün and Philipp André (1817-1892), another supporter of the democracy movement in the Bitburg district, became known, the authorities withdrew Thilmany's confidence and suspended him on September 14, 1849 from duty. In disciplinary proceedings , he was charged and confronted with the charge of "having disturbed the population" and also having been involved in the Prüm arsenal storm .

When the proceedings against him were over, he was transferred by order of September 13, 1851 to another office with the same rank and income, without reimbursement of the moving costs. Ultimately, he not only lost his office in Bitburg, but also a considerable part of his assets over the duration of the proceedings. During the years that he lived in need, he edited the Eifel farmer friend . On May 25, 1852, he was dismissed from service by order of the State Ministry (by means of the highest cabinet order on June 21, 1852). Rehabilitation never took place.

In 1853 he took a job at the Agricultural Association for Rhenish Prussia in Bonn, where he campaigned for the plight of the agricultural population in word and in writing. From 1855 to 1879 he was the general secretary of this association and did a great job. Thilmany was considered a friend and supporter of the social reformer Raiffeisen and was most recently on the board of the German Progressive Party in Bonn. He was retired on December 31, 1879.

Honors

  • 1872: Appointment as the first honorary citizen of the city of Bitburg.

family

Thilmany had been in Luxembourg since October 7, 1839 with Anna Margareta Friederike , b. Müller (* Conz June 6, 1817), daughter of the "propriétaire" (German: owner ) Louis Bertrand Müller and his wife Elisabeth, b. Well, married.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816-1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 780 f .
  2. ↑ When Bitburg was bad about the king, December 26, 2014, In: volksfreund.de When the district administrator lost his office ...
  3. ^ List of honorary citizens of Bitburg, In: bitburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Thilmany, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thilmany, Johann Nikolaus Caesar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1885
Place of death Bonn