Georg Friedrich Heilmann
Georg Friedrich Heilmann the Younger ( born January 5, 1785 Biel, Switzerland, † July 24, 1862 ) was a politician Bieler, officer and landscape painter.
Life
Born Heilmann on January 5, 1785 son of the publisher, printer and politician Niklaus Heilmann.
Together with his tutor Johann Rudolf Wyss took Heilmann several trips abroad and studied at the universities of Halle and Heidelberg, the law, besides also science and literature, and was active in the Corp Landsmannschaften Guestphalia Hall, Rhenaniastraße superior Heidelberg and Guestphalia I Heidelberg. After his return to Switzerland, he devoted himself also agronomic studies on Fellenberg'schen Institute in Hofwil.
From his youth he was attracted to the military. He was a lieutenant and captain in the French National Guard on 10 September 1806 to 1 May 1816. From 1813 to the end of the French occupation Biels he faced as a captain of the guard of honor of the city.
In January 1814, he was elected to the Provisional Government of Biel, which was directed by his father Nicholas. During the liberation war from 1813 to 1815 he was an official ambassador of his native town in the headquarters of the allies, in Zurich and at the Congress of Vienna. Already on January 21, 1814 was Heilmann, along with Abraham Samuel Daxelhofer, another envoy Biel, received by the Austrian Emperor in Basel, where he was an independent canton Biel to the concern consisting of the reformed part of the diocese of Basel with the city of Biel as capital create uttered. In the following months he made so a total of 27 trips within Switzerland. As of October 16, 1814 Heilmann tried to represented at the Congress of Vienna, the position of his city and to prevent Biel part of a canton Pruntrut was, as aspired to other circles. Despite Biel's status as a place facing the city was finally added to the Bernese District Nidau . This as a compensation for the losses of the Bernese and Vaud Canton Aargau.
From 1816 he was governor of office for IC Bernese cantonal parliament ( until 1829 ) and finally colonel in the cantonal military service. Already in 1820 he wrote a Memorial to the Jura water correction, but which was not realized until decades later. The enthusiastic Philhellene founded in the same year Ersparniskasse Biel and was regarded as the spiritual center of Biel.
From 1829 or 1831 to 1844 he was in Naples in the service of the 4th Swiss Regiment, first as captain, most recently as a colonel. There he devoted himself to archaeological studies, and he was the officer corps to the Director of the Museum of Nola ( near Naples ) appointed. On September 27, 1845, he retired from active military service.
After returning to Biel he belonged from 1846 to 1850 again to the Bernese cantonal parliament.