Wilhelm Kerckhoff (politician)
Johann Wilhelm Kerckhoff (born December 30, 1824 in Kleve ; † June 17, 1900 in Frohnhausen ) was a German local politician. Among other things, he was the first and only mayor of the Altendorf mayor for a good 25 years , which was incorporated into the city of Essen in 1901 .
Live and act
Wilhelm Kerckhoff was born the son of a farmer. After he served as a professional soldier and NCO, he served as a sergeant in the 17th Infantry Regiment. On May 21, 1865, he was commissioned to take on the provisional administration of the mayor's office in Gahlen .
Kerckhoff was a member of the Freemason Lodge Alfred zur Linde in Essen and chaired it for several years as master .
Wilhelm Kerckhoff was buried on June 21, 1900 in the family crypt in today's Gervinuspark . The former Westfriedhof was rededicated as a park in 1960.
Mayor of Altendorf
In December 1873 Kerckhoff was appointed mayor of the new mayor's office of Altendorf, which was formed on January 1, 1874 from the communities of Altendorf, Frohnhausen and Holsterhausen , which had previously belonged to the mayor's office of Borbeck . With 65,701 inhabitants, this municipality developed into the largest rural municipality in Prussia . Initially, the administration of the mayor's office occupied an apartment building on Margarethenstrasse. The town hall, on a plot of land bought by the innkeeper Johann Potthoff, where the church of St. Mariae Birth has been since 1952, was moved into on July 1, 1876. The mayor's villa stood on part of today's Riehlpark.
On the first Advent, December 3, 1882, Wilhelm Kerckhoff gave the greeting on the occasion of the inauguration of the Luther Church , the first Protestant church in the Altendorf community. In 1885, on the occasion of the golden wedding of Kaiser Wilhelm I , the Wilhelm Augusta Foundation was established under his chairmanship . In 1893 the mayor's office planned to set up shower baths for the population in the new school buildings. For financial reasons, the start of construction had to be postponed until 1901.
On August 29, 1894, on the occasion of Kerckhoff's completion of his 50 years in the public service, Kerckhoffstrasse in Frohnhausen was named after him. When the Empress Auguste Viktoria paid her visit to the first Protestant elementary school in the new parish hall on August 8, 1896, Kerckhoff was present. The construction of an orphanage began in 1900 behind the St. Antonius Church in Frohnhausen, and the house was inaugurated on December 30, 1901, which Kerckhoff did not live to see. After Kerckhoff's death in June 1900, the mayor's office was only passed on provisionally by Johannes Goerres , because on August 1, 1901 Altendorf was incorporated into the city of Essen.
Town hall of the mayor's office Altendorf around 1890
Tomb in today's Gervinuspark
Web links
- Altendorfer Werbering: First Mayor ; accessed on January 2, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
- ↑ Essener Generalanzeiger of October 24, 1894: 50th anniversary of the service of Mayor Kerckhoff
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kerckhoff, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kerckhoff, Johann Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kleve , Rhine Province , Kingdom of Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1900 |
| Place of death | Essen , Rhine Province , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire |