Anton Joseph Recking

Anton Joseph Recking , also Anton Josef Recking (* 1743 in Trier ; † October 27, 1817 ibid) was under French administration from 1800 to 1810 mayor and from 1815 to 1817 the first mayor of Trier.

Anton Joseph Recking was a son of the Trier city council and trader Johann Nikolaus Recking and Catharina Boudson. He was born in Trier in 1743 and baptized on January 23, 1744 in the church of St. Laurentius in Trier. His wife became Maria Magdalena Döll from Cochem .

Recking was elected magistrate by the blacksmiths and locksmiths guild on February 20, 1770 and was a member of the Trier city council until 1794. The capture of the city by the French revolutionary armies in 1794 ( First Coalition War ) prompted him to emigrate, in 1795 he returned and was captured by the French. He later became a member of the administration of the Trier arrondissement . On 25 November 1800 he was appointed Napoleon for mayor of Trier and rewarded his services to the city on October 26, 1804 issue of the Legion of Honor . On September 26, 1810 Recking was dismissed from office because he disregarded a decree on the devaluation of money. After Prussia took over the Rhineland and thus also the city of Trier , Recking was again commissioned to manage the city in 1815 and remained its mayor until his death on October 27, 1817.

Trier had been the capital of the Saar department since 1798 and had risen economically thanks to the removal of customs and trade barriers. In 1806, together with the wine wholesaler Matthias Joseph Hayn in Paris , Recking bought back former church property from the Saar-Moselle region, which had initially been expropriated and later sold again by decision of the National Assembly to cover public debts.

literature

• Hubert Schiel , The Mayors of Trier in the 19th century according to their personal files, in: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch 7, 1967, pp. 80-134
• Trier biographical lexicon . Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000. ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , page 357.

Web links

• Entry on Anton Joseph Recking in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gottfried Kentenich : The history of the city of Trier from its foundation to the present , Trier: Lintz, 1915, p. 707 online at dilibri
2. ↑ A Little Happy Family ( Memento from January 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Gabriele Clemens, Napoleonic Army Suppliers and the Emergence of the Rhenish Economic Bourgeoisie, in: Francia 24/2, 1997, p. 159 ff .