Wilhelm Ernst Wichelhausen
Wilhelm Ernst Wichelhausen (born May 16, 1769 in Bremen , † December 19, 1823 in Berlin ) was a lawyer , Bremen senator and Bremen mayor .
biography
Wichelhausen was the son of Senator Engelbert Wichelhausen (1748–1819) and the mayor's daughter Rebecca, nee. Iken (1753-1829).
After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Göttingen . He received his doctorate in 1792 as Dr. jur. In 1793 he was appointed professor of law at the Illustre grammar school in Bremen .
In Bremer French period he was in 1811 by the French occupation forces to Maire called, so the mayor of Bremen. He had to fulfill a very difficult task, on the one hand to serve the city and on the other hand to follow the orders and laws of the French occupying power. Senator Simon Hermann Nonnen was his adjunct or Maire-Adjoint (deputy mayor) during this time . This office ended in 1813. Georg Gröning (1745–1825) succeeded him in 1814 as mayor.
Wichelhausen was no longer appointed to the Senate by the Bremen Senate, but as postmaster . He got into conflicts with the competing private Thurn-und-Taxis-Post , which existed from 1806 to 1867 and wanted to claim postal rights for Bremen on the basis of the Federal Act of the German Confederation . In 1823 the city post office was merged with the Prussian post office.
See also
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Reinhard Patemann: Relations between Bremen and France until the end of French rule in 1813 . In: Francia , Vol. 1 (1973).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wichelhausen, Wilhelm Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bremen lawyer, senator and mayor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1769 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1823 |
| Place of death | Berlin |