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Simon Hermann Nonnen, lithograph by Wilhelmine Suhrlandt

Simon Hermann Nonnen (born February 4, 1777 in Bremen , † January 23, 1847 in Bremen) was a lawyer, Bremen senator and Bremen mayor .

biography

Nonnen was the son of the preacher Hermann Nonnen (1738–1781) and the daughter of a Syndicus Margarethe Nonnen, geb. from post. He was married to the mayor's daughter Anna Lampe and his second marriage to the mayor's daughter Gesa Lampe.

He graduated from the Illustre high school in Bremen in 1795 . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1796 and obtained his doctorate in 1800 or 1802. jur.

As early as 1803, when he was 26 years old, he became a councilor or senator in Bremen . He worked as an assessor at the lower and guest court (civil court) in the Bremer Neustadt and morning speaker (supervision of offices). He took on the duties of an excise gentleman (city tax) and was the director of the poor house , combined with the inspection of the poor institute and the lap collection (property tax). During the French period in Bremen, he worked from 1811 to 1813 as an adjunct or mayor-adjoint (mayor).

From 1813 Nonnen was again a senator and in his office one of the most active and successful senators. He headed the road construction deputation founded in 1817 , which among other things operated the expansion of the roads and can be seen as the predecessor of the road construction office. On February 23, 1822 he became mayor of Bremen and remained so until his death. He took a plethora of tasks and offices served as supervising the Catasteroberinspektion , the poor and the man home , the Rembertihospital , the St . Nicolai, St. Petri and St. Jacobi widow houses , the mint, the penitentiary and the prison etc. On June 23, 1825, the Sparkasse Bremen was founded on the initiative of nuns . In 1838 he assumed the office of President of the Senate.

The Nonnenberg , a sand hill of his estate in Oslebshausen , which he donated to the city, and the street Am Nonnenberg were named after him.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Harry Schwarzwälder : The improvement of the traffic conditions between Bremen and Burg at the beginning of the 19th century . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch . Volume 56, 1978, pp. 79-204.

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