Wilhelm Leopold Janssen (politician, 1830)

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Philipp Wilhelm Leopold Janssen (born July 6, 1830 in Krefeld , † December 16, 1900 in Aachen ) was a Prussian administrative officer and district administrator of the Heinsberg district .

Life

childhood and education

Wilhelm Leopold Janssen was the son of the clerk and later chancellor Johannes Janssen and Maria Josepha , born. Stoffens. After visiting the Aachen Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium , which he in 1849 with passing the final examination left, he studied until 1852 at the University of Bonn law . In 1850 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Bonn . After completing his studies, he fulfilled his military service from October 1, 1852 to 1853 as a member of the 1st Battalion of the 28th Infantry Regiment. Even before he was on 24 September 1852 as part of his legal training as Auskultator the Aachen Regional Court occurred. On September 14, 1854, he moved from there as a government trainee to the Aachen government , where he passed the assessor examination on October 14, 1857 . With his subsequent appointment as a government assessor, Janssen was referred to the governments in Aachen for further employment and, by decree of January 14, 1859, in Stettin .

Career

After 16 months in Pomerania , Janssen received the appointment to take over the district administration in Heinsberg on May 19, 1860 . During the 16 years of office in this function, as a result of the change in the Prussian administration resulting from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71, he was initially employed as an unskilled worker in the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, from there as Prefect of the French Maas and Ardennes Department and later appointed as a member of the civil commissariat (governorate) in Strasbourg . On November 10, 1874, he was elected mayor of Aachen (Janssen received 16 votes in the election, his competitor, the Mönchengladbach mayor Doetsch, 12), which was not confirmed by the government. The Catholic Janssen was reproached for disloyal behavior during the Kulturkampf . Officially, it was stated that Janssen's rejection was due to his personality - a certain opinionated manner - but: “ What compels us to speak out against his confirmation is his ecclesiastical direction. “It was considered ultramontane , even if it was moderate compared to other potential candidates. Two years later, on May 24, 1876, Janssen was put up for disposition as district administrator in Heinsberg , and he did not officially retire until July 17, 1895.

Political activity

Wilhelm Leopold Janssen belonged to the Prussian House of Representatives as a member of the free conservatives and later of the center for four legislative periods (9-11 1866-1873, resigned on 4th January 1873; and 14th 1879-1882) . Furthermore, from 1892 until his death he was chairman of the provincial committee of the Rhine province in Düsseldorf and from 1882 to 1885 vice-president of the Rhenish farmers' association . In addition, Janssen headed the Palestine Association of Catholics in Germany, which had been founded five years earlier in Aachen, until 1890.

Honors
family

The Catholic Wilhelm Leopold Janssen married Mathilde Kannengießer (born April 16, 1836 in Aachen; † May 22, 1914 there) on September 11, 1858 in Aachen, the daughter of the carpet and blanket manufacturer Josef Kannengießer and Maria Catharina Julie Johanna, nee. by Zentis-Frymerson. His son of the same name, Wilhelm Leopold (born July 4, 1859 in Stettin, † February 2, 1915 in Aachen) carried the title of royal Italian honorary consul . His daughter Bertha Maria (1872–1953) married the scratch manufacturer and center politician Albert Heusch . The grandson , also named after him, temporarily headed the district office of the Aachen district in 1928 . The Wilhelm Leopold Janssen family found their final resting place in the hot mountain cemetery in Burtscheid / Aachen .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Leopold Janßen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 .
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 21 , 405
  3. ^ History of the Palestine Association Aachen ( Memento from May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Herbert M. Schleicher: 80,000 death notes from Rhenish collections.
personal data
SURNAME Janssen, Wilhelm Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janssen, Philipp Wilhelm Leopold (= full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative officer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1900
Place of death Aachen