Wilhelm Ferdinand Lieven
Wilhelm Ferdinand Lieven (born June 15, 1839 in Niederembt ; † August 9, 1902 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landowner and local politician in the Rhineland and an honorary citizen of Hilden .
Life in the Imperial Era
The parents were Heinrich Josef Lieven and Elisabeth Kunigunde Mauel. He had two older sisters. The father had bought considerable property in Hilden, but did not live there.
The mother inherited the Rodderhof near Brühl (now Rhein-Erft-Kreis ) in 1846 . Father Heinrich Josef Lieven also became the operator of the Roddergrube . By 1850 at the latest, the family lived in Rodderhof, where Wilhelm Ferdinand Lieven probably attended the Catholic school in Brühl. According to reports from the Rhenish Knight Academie in Bedburg , Ferdinand Lieven is listed as a pupil for the years 1852 (preparatory class) to 1857 (lower secondary school). This school was a cadre forge for sons of the German aristocracy, but from 1851 also accepted Catholic sons from the middle class. Further sources on studying or training in Lieven are not yet known.
From 1866 Lieven lived in Ebersberg in Upper Bavaria, where he became a landowner and pensioner. A reason for this residence is not known. To this end, he acquired Bavarian citizenship. When his father died on January 31, 1866, he came to Brühl to carry out the inheritance regulation. Wilhelm Ferdinand Lieven received Haus Horst (Hilden) on March 10, 1866 at the age of 27 , where he also moved his residence. He sold Haus Horst on January 2, 1896 to the Düsseldorf industrialist Gustav Klingelhöfer (born September 27, 1857 in Schleiden , † March 17, 1918 in Düsseldorf). He now lived in the house he had bought at Mittelstrasse 41 in Hilden.
The re-naturalization took place in 1869, Lieven was accepted into the Prussian Subject Association. In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he volunteered and equipped a medical department at his own expense. For this he received an iron cross on a white ribbon . The mother died in 1877. Lieven remained unmarried and childless.
Political offices and duties
As lord of the Horst manor, he was probably first elected city councilor in Hilden on November 30, 1870. From here began his meritorious 32 years of honorary service for his new hometown Hilden. The council decided on March 7, 1870 to establish a municipal rectorate school as a higher school for boys. Lieven was elected to the board of trustees alongside the local pastors and this against the background of the culture war between the Catholic Church and the Prussian state. He later became high school inspector for the Catholic parish school and the simultaneous schools on the outskirts of the city. He held this office until 1896, an important time for the rapidly growing industrial city. From 1872 until the inauguration at the end of 1900, he was a member of the Town Hall Commission, as the city administration urgently needed a new administrative building. Since 1873 he was a member of the Itter Commission, which, among other things, was concerned with keeping the Itter clean . At that time the Itterbach already flowed through the area of his knight residence, Haus Horst.
On November 28, 1876, Wilhelm Ferdinand Lieven was again put up and elected by the Liberal Party as a candidate for the city council. In 1881 he was also elected by the council assembly to the Hilden district deputy. There he made it to the deputy district administrator . From 1888 to 1901 Lieven was also a deputy of the Rhineland Provincial Parliament . Other offices at this level were membership in the provincial committee, board of trustees of the Landesbank, member of the Chamber of Agriculture and the State Railway Council.
On February 19, 1890, the unanimous election as honorary first alderman took place, in 1896 and 1902 each confirmation in office. Lieven only had a few years to live. During this time he provided more than 100,000 marks in his will for the Catholic community for the construction of the Catholic community center (later known as Reichshof, demolished in 2014) and other social foundations. The most important effect for Hilden is the testamentary donation of his forests (730 acres ) in the northeast of the city, today's city forest.
Wilhelm Ferdinand Lieven went on a trip to the north with the factory owner Adolf Spindler (1865–1956) and fell ill with severe pneumonia after his return , from which he no longer recovered. He died on August 9, 1902 in the "Prinz von Hohenzollern" hotel in Düsseldorf. He was on friendly terms with the landlady Margarete Schäfer, who also looked after him there. In the absence of a family as the "main victims" as the press wrote, the city hosted the dignified funeral service and funeral.
Honors
- On September 17, 1900, the city council of Hilden decided to give him "honorary citizenship in recognition of his services to the development of the city".
- On December 18, 1900, the town hall in Mittelstrasse, built by the young Hilden architect Walter Furthmann , was inaugurated . Lieven donated a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm II for the council chamber . He was also given the honorary citizenship certificate.
- On September 28, 1926, the Hilden city council passed a resolution: "The city of Hilden would be robbed of its best gem if it did not own the city forest as property today."
- In 1928 efforts began to erect a monument to Lieven. A boulder, donated by the textile manufacturer Paul Spindler (1872–1949), was turned into a memorial stone by the Benrath sculptor Hilde Viering (1898–1981). The handover and installation took place on May 15, 1929. The costs for this were taken over by a group of donors. The memorial stone is at the entrance to the city forest near the "Waldschenke" modernized by Walter Furthmann.
- In the northern outskirts north of the path from the Forsthaus Eickert to the Kellertor, an old oak tree has been declared a Lieveneiche.
- In the summer of 1904, the city arranged for a tomb in the main cemetery in Hilden, created by the Hilden architect Walter Furthmann
- On November 12, 1920, the road construction commission decided to name a new street in the east, Lievenstrasse . It should allow access to the nature reserve.
- On May 29, 1978, the school for people with learning disabilities, now the special needs school “Learning” and “Emotional and Social Development” on Lortzingstrasse, was named Ferdinand Lieven School .
literature
- Wolfgang Wennig: Wilhelm Ferdinand Lieven, honorary citizen of the city of Hilden . Hilden Yearbook 10 / 1965–1970
- The Hilden city forest and its founder Wilhelm Ferdinand Lieven . Museum and Heimatverein Hilden eV, ISBN 3-9804615-5-6
- Peter Josef Seul: XII. Program of the Rheinische Ritter-Academie zu Bedburg. Cologne 1854, p. 51
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Digitized programs of the Rheinische Ritter-Academie zu Bedburg , Vol. XI 1853 - XVI 1858 in the University Library of Düsseldorf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lieven, Wilhelm Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lieven, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landowner and local politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niederembt |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1902 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |