Wilhelm Rumann

Wilhelm Rumann

Rudolph Wilhelm Philipp Rumann (born July 18, 1784 in Celle ; † October 18, 1857 in Hanover ) was a politician in the Kingdom of Hanover and city director of Hanover from 1824 to 1843.

Life

After the end of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover in 1837, City Director Rumann (right in the center of the picture) symbolically presents King Ernst August I with the keys of Hanover;
Image relief by August Waterbeck as part of the historical frieze on the New Town Hall of Hanover

Tomb in the garden cemetery

The Rumann family belonged to the so-called pretty families in the 18th and 19th centuries .

As the son of the Hanoverian Justice Minister Ernst August Rumann , Rudolph Wilhelm Philipp Rumann embarked on a legal career. After studying law in Göttingen from 1801 to 1804, he first became court and chancellery advisor. From 1813 he was police director in Hanover. In 1824 Rumann was elected city director of the combined old and new town. From 1826 to 1837 he was a member of the second chamber of the Hanoverian assembly of estates , from 1833 its president.

During his tenure as city director, he ensured an improvement in the poor system, a restructuring of the school system, the inauguration of Waterloo Square and the Waterloo Column (1832), the renovation of the Aegidienkirche (1826-1828) and the construction of a hospital (later the Linden Dermatology Clinic ). Furthermore, under Rumann, Hanover was the first European city to receive gas lighting. In 1843 Rumann retired after lengthy disputes. Rumann died on October 18, 1857. His grave is in the garden cemetery .

The chamber director of the Hanover domain chamber , August Heinrich Rumann, was his brother.

Honors

" Removed from office by King Ernst August 1839 for loyalty to the constitution "; Legend on the street sign of Rumannstrasse in Hanover

Rumannstrasse in the Oststadt district, which was laid out in 1873, honors the former city director with its name.

literature

• Ferdinand Frensdorff :  Rumann, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 638-642.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 8, p. 462
• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 ; Hanover: Sponholtz, 1914, p. 575
• Johanna May: From the city government to bourgeois local politics. Lines of development of the Hanoverian city policy from 1699 to 1824 , in the series of publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Volume 198, 2000, p. 476ff.
• Waldemar R. Röhrbein : A magistrate under indictment. The city of Hanover in the constitutional conflict of the years 1837–1840 / 43. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 42 (1988), pp. 121–170
• Klaus Mlynek : RUMANN, (2) Rudolph Wilhelm Philipp. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 304 and others; partly online via Google books
• Klaus Mlynek: Rumann, (2) Rudolph Wilhelm Philipp. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 530f.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Rumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Pretty families. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 310
2. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Rumannstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 213