Ordinance concerning the designation of local citizens of the same name
The regulation, the term eponymous local citizens concerning was a Grand Ducal Hessian Regulation from 1832 to uniquely naming the same citizens in administrative matters and in particular tax matters by a suffix , officially Namensbeizeichen called.
background
In the first few decades in the German Confederation , many German states saw an extensive modernization push in administrations and the legal system. The very heterogeneous structures that had grown historically in the Holy Roman Empire were standardized and systematized. This was particularly the case in the newly created states or those with significant territorial gains - such as the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which had grown into the Grand Duchy of Hesse. So were ground or floor books created lists all the properties there and the residents' registration unified.
With the establishment of a systematic tax administration, the challenge arose of clearly assigning tax claims to taxpayers . This was difficult with people of the same name . It was also not enough to use the name of the person and the place name together, since several people could have the same name in one place.
In many municipalities in the country there was a different practice until then that people of the same name were referred to with Roman ordinal numbers or with old or young . However, these names changed, for example, in the event of death or relocation.
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The ordinance, the designation of local citizens of the same name, dated November 27, 1832, therefore regulated that every citizen who had a namesake received a consecutive number with the entry in the tax register , which remained lifelong. Upon death, this number was blocked for ten years and only then reassigned. The number was added to the surname in official registers and documents in the form of a Roman numeral . For example, the Mayor of Lampertheim Adam Seelinger was named Adam Seelinger IX in official documents . guided. This name had a similar function to today's tax identification number .
With the instruction, the designation of local residents of the same name and the preservation of the name changes relating to July 2, 1850, some details were regulated. The blocking of the new assignment of the number was extended from ten to 30 years if the person concerned was still entered in a land register. It was also clarified that a local citizen, who was the only one of his name so far (and therefore had no name sign), received the name sign I. if a namesake (with the number II.) Was entered. When moving, the citizen in the new municipality should be given a new number.
In an announcement on October 18, 1862, it was finally made clear that the number in the previous location should continue to be used for all matters there (e.g. in the land register), but the new number should be used for matters in the new one Place.
Other uses
The names were also taken over in the birth, marriage and death registers and in other person-related official documents, whereby they often appear in genealogical literature; consequently they do not (or only in exceptional cases) refer to the sequence of names within a family, as is the case when counting noble names ( Friedrich III. , Wilhelm II . etc.). In accordance with the different legal status of men and women at that time, the names are only found on male persons, women of the same name are identified by naming their fathers or husbands. - Often the name tag is also spelled out as a word in official documents (e.g. “the day laborer Johann Leonhard Walther the Third”, “Johann Jakob Trumpfheller, Seventh, Farmer” in a death register from 1900).
As early as 1829 in the neighboring Electorate of Hesse, in an ordinance on the keeping of church and parish registers, numbering was introduced as an option alongside others to differentiate between people, so that in historical documents there are also occasional personal names with such a symbol (but more often without the Point identifying ordinal numbers, e.g. " Hermann Müller II , member of the Kurhessischer Landtag", "Heinrich Meier III, innkeeper and butcher").
The names discussed here can still be found here and there in company names that go back to the personal names of their founders.
When personal names are numbered, it is to be expected that within organizations, corporations and families an independent ranking has taken place aimed at internal differentiation, without any generally applicable regulation being the basis.
literature
- Ordinance concerning the designation of local citizens of the same name ; Printed in: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 100, Darmstadt on December 19, 1832, pp. 879–880
- Instruction, the designation of local residents of the same name and the preservation of the name changes .; Printed in: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 34, Darmstadt on July 15, 1850, pp. 282–283
- Announcement regarding the more detailed designation of local citizens of the same name ; Printed in: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt Nr. 38, Darmstadt on [], pages 673–674
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Individual proof
- ↑ "If several fathers of families with the same gender name live in the same place; so it must be noted whether the father is the older, middle, younger, or the first, second, third, etc. of his name, or otherwise the same if the first names are the same, further after the baptismal names of his father, or if necessary his grandfather from the father's side, or determined by using the name of his mother, etc., as this is already indicated by §. 5 Our ordinance of June 17, 1828 in relation to the judicial currency and mortgage books, tax cadastre and similar public registers has been prescribed. ” [The numbering is not mentioned there]. See ordinance on the keeping of church and parish registers , § 20, in: Collection of laws, ordinances, notices and other general provisions for Kurhessen , 5th vol., Years 1827–1830, year 1829, p. 83ff, here p 88.