Arend Berkholz

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Arend Berkholz (also Arend von Berkholz ) (born November 8, 1808 in Riga , † August 11, 1888 in Majorenhof ) was a German-Baltic mayor.

Life

family

Arend Berkholz was born as the son of Dr. phil. Martin Balthasar Berckholtz (born September 18, 1775 in Riga; † November 25, 1844), pastor at St. Gertrud's Church in Riga and his wife Christiane Elisabeth (born May 21, 1786; † May 30, 1849), b. von Bretschneider, born. He married on October 25 in Riga Alexandra (born December 26, 1822, † February 22, 1874), daughter of the Stadtwraker (inspector of goods, mostly "Flachswraker") Alexander Götz, and was a widowed Doss. They had two sons together.

Career

At first, Arend Berkholz received only school lessons from his father and attended the Gouvernement-Gymnasium (Krons-Gymnasium) in Riga from 1823 to 1828 with the then deputy director Karl Ludwig Grave and studied law at the University of Dorpat from 1829 to 1832 . In 1832 he traveled to Moscow via St. Petersburg to enroll as a student, but was rejected by the curator Solochwostow and the minister Sergei Semjonowitsch Uvarow .

On July 6, 1834, he received the dignity of a graduate student of law from the law faculty of the University of Dorpat and entered the service of the Riga City Council as an auscultant , there he became secretary of the commission for the establishment of the Lombardy in 1835 , in the same year he became also teachers at Sunday School . This was followed in 1837 as a secretary of the commission to determine the relationship between the city guard and horses and the commission to regulate the border between the moat and the city territory.

In 1836 he began as a notary for the Krepost expedition (inheritance matters of the Baltic noble family von Lilienfeld 1795–1843) and in 1839 became secretary of the Evangelical Lutheran city ​​consistory and in 1845 an advocate for the city council, before becoming a councilor in 1847.

In 1851 he became parish judge adjunct and controller of the lists for the 10th revision in the patrimonial area . In 1865 he was appointed parish judge and president , which he held until 1880.

In 1878 he was elected mayor of Riga. He remained in this office until 1881 before retiring with a pension.

Assessor activities

  • 1847–1851: Assessor of the Council's Farming Department;
  • 1847–1855: Assessor of the Combining and District Court;
  • 1848–1869: Assessor of the Evangelical Lutheran City Consistory;
  • 1865–1879: Assessor of the Rigas Police Administration;
  • 1872–1881: Assessor of the poor directorate.

Inspector activities

  • 1847–1850 and 1868: inspector of the rural police;
  • 1848: Inspector of the Berkholz-Meintzenschen Scholarship Foundation;
  • 1850–1881: Inspector of the Strauch family and poor legates;
  • 1847–1872: Inspector of St. Gertrudenkirche;
  • 1852: Inspector of the Jacobs-Stoever family legacy
  • 1852–1881: Inspector of the Fischerschem Educational Institute;
  • 1860–1874: Inspector of the Drachenhauer family legacy;
  • 1865–1879: Inspector of the rescue facility and hospital for seafarers
  • 1868–1878: Inspector of the Todleben Family Legacy

Committee memberships

  • 1848 and 1860: Member of the commission for the editing of the regulations for carters;
  • 1849: Member of the Commission for the Organization of the Judiciary;
  • 1850: Member of the soul revision commission;
  • 1851: Member of the Commission for the Editing of the Gift Shop Ordinance;
  • 1851: Member of the commission for building regulations;
  • 1857: Member of the commission of a recruitment regulation for the Baltic provinces;
  • 1858 and 1868: Member of the commission for an ordinance on the city of Riga district services;
  • 1867: Member of the Commission for the Reorganization of the Police Command;
  • 1868: Member of the commission for determining the boundaries of the city district and the manors;
  • 1871: Member of the commission to determine the state praeses to be granted by the city of Riga;
  • 1871: Member of the commission for advice on converting the poll tax into a farm and property tax
  • 1873: Member of the Commission in charge of managing the budget of the Riga Police Administration.

Chairman activities

  • 1849: Chairman of the Commission for the Prevention of Poverty and Begging;
  • 1855–1865: Chairman of the Treasury and District Court;
  • 1865–1878 chairman of the district administration;
  • 1851 and 1863: Chairman of the commission for the regulation of the tax arrears
  • 1857: Chairman of the Tax Administration;
  • 1857: Chairman of the commission for the organization of the 10th soul revision lists of the Riga municipality;
  • 1862: Chairman of the commission for the preparation of instructions for the revenue appraisal of real estate;
  • 1863: Chairman of the Commission for the Organization of Fire Extinguishing;
  • 1864: Chairman of the Commission for the Repartition of the Crown Real Estate Tax;
  • 1864: Chairman of the commission for advice on the tasks of donation law;
  • 1867–1879: Chairman of the Medical Committee;
  • 1869–1881: Chairman of the Theater Administration Committee;
  • 1870–1881: Chairman of the Administration of the Gas and Water Works;
  • 1872–1881: Chairman of the administration for the catering of the mentally ill and the administration of the Rothenberg institution;
  • 1874: Chairman of the Commission to Determine Available City Funds;
  • 1878–1881: Chairman of the Orphan Court.

Fraternity

While studying in Tartu was Arend Berkholz Fuchsoldermann and senior in the Baltic Corporation Fraternitas Rigensis Tartu .

Appointments

  • 1844: titular council;
  • 1863–1879 secular member of the Evangelical Lutheran General Consistory in St. Petersburg;
  • 1850: college assessor;
  • 1853: Councilor ;
  • 1863: councilor;
  • 1867: Council of State;
  • 1879: Real Council of State.

Honors

  • 1858: Badge of honor for 20 years of service;
  • 1858: Award of the bronze medal on the Andreas ribbon donated for the Turkish War;
  • 1865: Awarded the Order of Annen, 3rd class
  • 1865: Award of the Stanislaus Order 2nd class for the comments made on the 3rd part of the provincial law for the Baltic provinces;
  • 1867: Awarded the bronze pectoral cross in memory of the introduction of the rural community order;
  • 1868: Awarded the crown to the Order of Stanislaus;
  • 1870: Awarded the Order of Annen, 2nd class;
  • 1873: Awarded the Order of Vladimir 4th class for 35 years of service, associated with this he was recognized as a Russian nobleman in 1876 and entered by the Livonian district council in the Livonian governor nobility register in 1877;
  • 1873: Awarded the crown to the Order of Annen;
  • 1877: Award of the Order of Vladimir 3rd class

Memberships

Foundation, endowment

In 1858 he founded the Berkholz-Meintzensche Scholarship Foundation to support the undergraduate students from Dorpat University and the Riga Polytechnic.

Works (selection)

  • Memorial sheets for the Berckholz family also Berkholz , Riga 1883 (Arend Berkholz: p. 19 ff.).
  • The St. Jacobi churchyard in Riga (1773–1895) . Kymmel , Riga 1895.
  • Arend Berkholz, H. von Bruiningk: Anton Buchholtz in memory for his friends . Verlag der Buchdruckerei des Rigaer Tageblatt, Riga 1901 (special print from the Rigaer Tageblatt , year 1901, No. 229 of October 7th).
  • Arend von Berkholz, N. Carlberg: The city of Riga administration and budget in the years 1878-1900: on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Riga . Printing and publishing of the Müller Buchdruckerei, Riga 1901.
  • Georg Grindel, Arend von Berkholz: Seals and compositions . Kymmel, Riga 1902.
  • Album fratum Rigensium - A contribution to Baltic personal studies . Riga, 3rd edition 1910.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herder Institute: July. Retrieved March 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Berkholz, Arend
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berkholz, Arend von; Berkholz, A. v.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1888
Place of death Court of Majors