Wilhelm Thielepape
| Wilhelm Carl August Thielepape | |
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| Mayor of San Antonio | |
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In office 1867–1872 |
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| Preceded by | J. H. Lyons |
| Succeeded by | S. G. Newton |
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July 10, 1814 Wabern, Hesse, Germany |
| Died | August 7, 1904 (aged 90) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Lithographer Photographer Surveyor Architect Attorney |
| Known for | 1867–1872 Mayor San Antonio, Texas |
Wilhelm Carl August Thielepape (July 10, 1814 – August 7, 1904), was an architect, engineer, teacher, photographer, and lithographer. He was Mayor of San Antonio, Texas during part of the Reconstruction era, and later an attorney in Chicago, Illinois.
Wilhelm Thielepape was born July 10, 1814 in Wabern, Hesse, Germany to Werner Philipp and Elisabeth (Thompson) Thielepape. He married Mathilde Gössling in 1841.
Following graduation from a Gymnasium in Kassel, he attended various universities during the 1840s.
Thielepape arrived in Texas in 1844, with the first Adelsverein colony accompanying Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels from Germany. After participating in a tour of the eastern and central United States in 1850, Thielepape settled in Carlshafen (Indianola), Texas as a surveyor.
On May 2, 1855, Reading Wood Black hired Thielepape, to plat and lay out Encina, the town later known as Uvalde, Texas. For a short time, Thielepape lived in Comal County where he designed the 1860 courthouse.
Thielepape moved to San Antonio in 1854.
On April 2, 1858, he was among the organizers of the San Antonio's German-English School.
In 1857, Thielepape designed the San Antonio Casino Club on Market Street, which opened in 1858. The club had its beginnings as a social gathering in 1854 in the home of Carl Hummel. When the club was chartered in 1857, its membership consisted of 106 German Texan men. The Market Street location hosted family entertainment, balls, social gatherings, music, activities, lectures and plays. Thielepape was a tenor who also founded the Beethoven Männerchor (men's choir) on February 23, 1867, to preserve German song, music, and language. He conducted the Beethoven Männerchor at the Casino.
Wilhelm Thielepape was among those who raised the Union flag over the Alamo on July 21, 1865, and who also passed out wine and songbooks in celebration of the Union victory. The four-month delay between the end of the Civil War in April and this celebration is not long in light of the 2½ years between the Emancipation Proclamation and the news of it being delivered in Galveston.
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