Wilhelm Bode (Magistrate Director)

Wilhelm Bode

Wilhelm Julius Ludwig Bode (born May 18, 1779 in Königslutter , † April 20, 1854 in Braunschweig ) was a German lawyer, politician and from 1825 to 1848 City Director of Braunschweig.

Life

Bode was a son of the superintendent Georg Heinrich Bode (1739-1812), who came from Naensen and worked at the imperial cathedral in Königslutter from 1778 . He attended the Katharineum in Braunschweig and studied law at the universities of Helmstedt (matriculated June 4, 1798) and Göttingen (matriculated October 18, 1800). The stud book of his student days is in the Wolfenbüttel State Archives . Then he was entrusted with the execution of administrative tasks in various smaller towns in the Duchy of Braunschweig .

On October 1, 1825, Bode was elected Magistrate Director in Braunschweig, and from December 5, 1832 he was City Director (which is equivalent to a current mayor) and thus the successor to Johann Heinrich Wilmerding , who had been very committed to Bode. Its main task was to ensure that the rights of the city of Braunschweig vis-à-vis the Duchy of Braunschweig were safeguarded.

On September 5, 1828, the law faculty of the University of Göttingen awarded him the honorary title “Dr. jur. ".

The Brunswick Revolution of 1830

Wilhelm Bode became known for his mediating role after the overthrow of Duke Charles II by the Brunswick citizens in September 1830.

It is thanks to Bode and the vigilante groups he founded that neither Prussia nor the Kingdom of Hanover intervened in the crisis with military power. He succeeded in bringing Charles II's younger brother, Duke Wilhelm , to Braunschweig so that he could henceforth run the business of government.

On April 8, 1848 Wilhelm Bode resigned voluntarily from his office as city director. His services to Braunschweig lay mainly in the reorganization of the city administration, the reorganization of city finances and the reform of the school and health system. In addition, it is thanks to him that suitable archiving and accommodation for the municipal documents was ensured. Bode is therefore also considered the spiritus rector of the Braunschweig City Archives founded in 1861 in the course of the 1000th anniversary of the city of Braunschweig .

Street sign and an explanatory note on Bode

Afterlife

The extensive handwritten estate of Bode (approx. 400 large volumes) is now kept in the Braunschweig city archive.

In 1896 the "Bodestrasse" in the eastern ring area of Braunschweig was named after him. But since it was quickly forgotten that Wilhelm Bode was to be honored with this, the population apparently only thought of the small river Bode near Braunschweig when the street name was used instead , the street was finally changed to “Wilhelm-Bode” on September 12, 1929 -Straße "renamed.

His son was the important Brunswick lawyer and politician Wilhelm Benedict Sigismund Heinrich Bode , his grandson was the art historian and museum founder Arnold Wilhelm Bode, who was later ennobled in Prussia ( Wilhelm von Bode ). See also Bode Museum !

Fonts

• The property tax system of the Duchy of Braunschweig , Braunschweig 1824
• Overview of the city administration of Braunschweig since 1825 , in 5 issues (1832-1856)
• Contribution to the history of the feudal estates in the Duchy of Braunschweig ... , Braunschweig 1843
• The older coinage of the states and cities of Lower Saxony ... , Braunschweig 1847

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1. Jump up ↑ Bode, Guilielmus Julius Ludovicus, Regio-Lothariensis, June 4, CA [= Civis academicus], RD [= ritu depositionis initiatus]; Catharineum Braunschweig, 19 years old, jur. In: Herbert Mundhenke: Die Matrikel der Universität Helmstedt 1685-1810 , Hildesheim 1979, No. 12375
2. ↑ G. Ludovicus Bode, Brunovicensis, jur., Ex ac. Helmstedt, father: Superintendent zu Königslutter ", imm. 18.10.1800 In: Götz von Selle: The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1734-1837 , Hildesheim and Leipzig 1937, no.19156
3. ↑ Signature VI Hs. 13, No. 131

literature

• Bode, Wilhelm . In: Joachim Rückert and Jürgen Vortmann (eds.): Lower Saxony lawyers . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, pp. 124–126.
• Otto Böse : Karl II - Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg , Braunschweig 1956
• Wolfgang Frühauf: City Director Wilhelm Bode and Finance Director von Thielau . Two upright Brunswickers and the diamond duke . In: Braunschweigischer Kalender . Meyer, Braunschweig 1990 ISSN  0343-0316 , pp. 65-66
• Manfred Garzmann : Bode, Wilhelm . In: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, p. 35 f. ISBN 3-92670-1145
• Ernst Henke :  Bode, Wilhelm Julius Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 2 f.
• Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories, Volume 3: Outside the city ring , Braunschweig 2001
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996
• Theodor Müller : City Director Wilhelm Bode. Life and work. , In: Braunschweiger Werkstücke , Volume 29, Braunschweig 1963
• Henning Steinführer , Claudia Böhler (Ed.): The Braunschweiger Mayors. From the establishment of the office in the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. oeding print GmbH, Braunschweig 2013, ISBN 978-3-941737-68-6 .