Wilhelm August Alemann

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Wilhelm August Alemann (born September 27, 1728 in Berlin ; † March 4, 1784 in Hanover ) was mayor of Hanover's old town.

Life

Wilhelm August was born in Berlin as the son of the royal Prussian court advisor Albert Engelhard Alemann and his wife Clara Henrietta Boetticher. The royal Prussian general Johann Ernst von Alemann was his uncle.

After studying law in Leipzig and Göttingen , Wilhelm August Alemann became court auditor in Hanover in 1752 . He married Charlotte Louise Ebell from Hanover, daughter of Ernst Christoph Ebell's personal medic and his wife Ilse Margarethe Bötticher.

From 1754 he was mayor of the city of Münder . At the same time he was assessor in 1755 and a member of the consistory from 1759 . In 1761 his term of office ended in Münder and he was unanimously elected mayor of Hanover.

Alemann was heavily involved in the social field: As chairman of the college of the poor, he reformed the urban poor system, and in 1782 founded the poor house and factory house at the Steintor . He also had a maternity hospital built in 1780, to which a training school for midwives was attached. His other achievements include the construction of a grain magazine (1771) and the improvement of street lighting (1779). In 1768 Alemann was appointed court counselor, and his nobility status was confirmed on April 24, 1783. But the latter was based on a false family tree, which identified him as a member of the aristocratic Magdeburg family Alemann . In reality, Wilhelm August Alemann came from an old, non-aristocratic clerk in the Ravensberg county .

His term of office ended with his death on March 4, 1784. His grave is in the St. Nikolai cemetery , where the tombstone can still be found today.

Alemannstrasse

The street in the district of Vahrenwald , which was created “probably around 1895 when the Vahrenwalder primary school was built”, was named in 1896 after the Hanover mayor.

literature

  • Eberhard von Alemann: The history of the Alemann family . o. O. 1909. (42 MB zip file)
  • Hans von Müller: Johann Ernst Tiemann in Ravensberg and Minden - together with information about his Ravensberg relatives and his descendants. In: LIII. (53rd) Annual report of the Historical Association for the County of Ravensberg zu Bielefeld. Bielefeld 1939. pp. 16-23.
  • Klaus Mlynek in: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 27.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian State Archives, signature AT-OeStA / AVA Adel RAA 5.8 ( online ).
  2. ↑ See Müller (1939) p. 18ff. On the other hand, see Alemann (1909). The lineage shown in the latter is based on the wrong sample of nobility and can be found in publications to this day.
  3. ↑ Information sheet about the St. Nikolai cemetery and the Neustädter Friedhof, column 45 (PDF 5.1 MB)
  4. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Alemann road. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Alemann, Wilhelm August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1784
Place of death Hanover