Wilhelm Heinrich Jobelmann

Wilhelm Heinrich Jobelmann (born October 2, 1800 in Stade ; † August 14, 1878 ibid) was a glazier, local politician and local historian in Stade.

Wilhelm Heinrich Jobelmann

Life

After the death of his father in 1814, Wilhelm Jobelmann had to work in the glazing business and became a master glazier. In 1827 he acquired citizenship and married Charlotte Leonore Siedenburg. In 1838 Jobelmann was elected citizen representative (comparable to a current councilor) in his quarters and took over the chairmanship of the civic representation from 1844–45, then again in 1852. In 1853 Jobelmann was elected to the magistrate as a senator ("department head"). He was also elected a member of the Hanover Estates Assembly. Wilhelm Heinrich Jobelmann died on August 14, 1878.

Services

Jobelmann was active in the Hanover Trade Association from the beginning, which in 1829 promoted the establishment of a “craft school” or “secondary school” in Stade. From the start of school on January 9, 1831 until practically until his death, Jobelmann taught free-hand and geometric drawing and was temporarily head of the school. This school is the forerunner of the later trade school and today's vocational school I Stade, which has been named Jobelmann School since September 20, 2001.

Wilhelm Jobelmann was also actively involved in founding the “Workers Education Association”. At the end of 1845, a “youth club” was founded as a forerunner to help young craftsmen to make their free time “useful and decent”. This resulted in the Stader Arbeiterbildungsverein , whose board was Jobelmann together with the master carpenter Oeters. In 1850 the association already had over 100 members.

As early as 1856, Wilhelm Jobelmann suggested building a "gas lighting facility", which was actually built in the vicinity of the provision house in 1857–59 and which went into operation on April 20, 1859. Jobelmann became the first director of this "gas company".

Jobelmann also dealt with the past and present of his hometown. In 1867 he developed detailed plans for the use of the former fortifications. In 1869 he began to write a three-volume story of Stade together with the lawyer Wittpenning, which first appeared in 1875 and is still a standard work.

Works

• History of the city of Stade , Stade 1875
• The Oberdeichinspector Jacob Ovens, a contribution to the history of the storm surge of 1717 and the establishment of the royal office of Wischhafen in the state of Kehdingen , in: Arch. Des Ver. f. Business u. Alterth. d. Herzogth. Bremen, Verden and the state of Hadeln; VII, pp. 75-112, Stade 1880
• The Bremen branch of the Königsmarck family , in: Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony (1876), pp. 257–62