Bernhard Garlichs

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Hermann Anton Bernhard Garlichs (born February 11, 1770 in Kniphausen , † August 7, 1818 in Jever ) was president of the arrondissement council of Jever and mayor of the city of Jever. In the literature, he is often referred to with the terms "Advokat Garlichs" or "Amtmann Garlichs".

Origin and career

According to the assumption of a genealogist in 1935, Bernhard Garlichs could be a descendant of Garlich Duren . However, this information has not been proven or documented to this day. Hermann Garlich's parents were the advocate Anthon Bernhard Garlich at Kniphausen Castle near Fedderwarden, later bailiff and assesor at Jever, and his wife Rebecca Langreuter. After studying law , he worked as a lawyer in Jever. Later he was appointed bailiff . As such, he belonged to the “Canzlei-Rath” of Bentinck's rule over the rule In- and Kniphausen before the Napoleonic rule . When Jever and parts of Friesland fell to France in 1806 and the Ems-Oriental department was established, Garlichs became a member of the Jever arrondissement council (roughly equivalent to a current district) and then president of this body. In 1814, after the French had left, he was mayor of Jever until his early death. He was also a member of Jever's “ Freemason Lodge for the Silver Key”, usually reserved for dignitaries and political free spirits.

Descriptions by third parties

Johann Heinrich Abken (1759–1844), later councilor of the Count of Kniphausen and testator of several bequests in favor of neighboring churches, received a job as a clerk for the lawyer and later Garlich's bailiff as a young man. Garlichs maintained strict discipline and order in his office, but soon allowed him to use his library and finally appointed him the guardian of his children.

After Abken, the later teacher Gerd Eilers (1788–1863) also worked as a scribe for Garlichs for years. In his memoirs, Eilers describes on the one hand that Garlichs treated him "with a lot of kindness, even lovingly". He supported him in attending the Mariengymnasium in Jever on the side, and given him the necessary time. In addition, Garlichs encouraged him to study law afterwards and agreed to give him work that would "be more conducive to his training as an advocate than all professorial wisdom in Göttingen", and he also liked his work at Garlichs. In addition, Garlichs continued to support him even after he left to study in Heidelberg . On the other hand, however, Eilers also criticizes some of his patron's professional behavior. Garlichs increased his income by rejecting joint actions and advising against individual actions. It was also part of his "moneymaking" that he had obtained false shipping documents so that those concerned could import goods that otherwise would not have been allowed to be transported because of the Napoleonic continental barrier. Another author confirms this, but explains that this was done at the instigation of Count Wilhelm Gustav Friedrich Bentinck , who thus abused the neutrality of the Kniphaus flag for his own benefit. Abken also criticized that a wealthy farmer had sought out Garlichs, whom he had been named "Colonel of the Freemasons", and that Garlichs had not talked the farmer out of his wish to draw up a protection treaty with the devil, but instead was against this wish - for a fee. followed. This anecdote is also presented a little differently by the other author in favor of Garlichs: He had tried to dissuade the farmer from this wish, but failed because of his greed.

In any case, it is documented that Garlichs also campaigned for the rights of those who were disadvantaged at the time. He stubbornly represented a daughter through two instances who had been sued by her father to leave her fiancé and return to her father's household and under his tutelage.

posterity

Garlichs left a library that, because of its size and quality, found its way into several contemporary reports. After his death, part of it became the property of the city of Jever. Other parts of the library were taken over by Christian Friedrich Strackerjan (1777–1848), then acting on behalf of Ludwig Wilhelm Christian von Halem (1758–1839), acting head of the Grand Ducal Public Library in Oldenburg and father of Ludwig Strackerjan .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For lack of other sources, early life data also from Annemarie Ruge: Descent table of the Jeverschen branch of the Garlichs family , unpublished list from 1978 ( see discussion )
  2. ^ Tileman Dothias Wiarda 1817: East Frisian History: Latest East Frisian History. Vol. 10, Issue 2, Abth. 2., p. 662. Verlag AF Winter
  3. ↑ ' ' 400 years and more at a glance - events in Jever and Jeverland
  4. ^ City of Jever: List of the mayors of Jever since 1533
  5. ^ History of the community of Fedderwarden ( memento from August 31, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on August 14, 2019.
  6. ↑ JFLTh. Merzdorf 1852: History of the Masonic lodges in the Herzogthume Oldenburg , pp. 123–124, Verlag Berndt, Oldenburg
  7. ^ Bernhard Friedrich Voight (Ed.) 1846: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , thirty-second year, first part, Weimar, Verlag von Bernh. Friedr. Voigt.
  8. ^ G. Schlipper 1953: Johann Heinrich Abken , pp. 60–62 in: Historien-Kalender - Frisisches Jahrbuch, born in 1953, Brune-Mettcker Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Jever
  9. ↑ Gerd Eilers 1856: My journey through life: A contribution to the inner history of the first half of the 19th century , first part, pages 42 ff, 137, 216 ff, Verlag FA Brockhaus, Leipzig
  10. ↑ Landesbibliothek Oldenburg (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte des Landes Oldenburg , Biography Gerd Eilers ( PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lb-oldenburg.de
  11. ↑ Ludwig Finckh 1943: Herzog and Vogt . 230 p., Deutscher Volksverlag
  12. ↑ Hermann Lühken 1960: The battle of the Heibke Margarethe , pp 78-82 in. Histories Calendar - Frisian Yearbook, born in 1960, Brune-Mettcker printing and publishing company Jever
  13. ↑ Johann Friedrich Ludwig Theodor Merzdorf 1844: Librarian Studies, Vol. 2, p. 71
  14. ↑ Antje Sander-Berke (Ed.) 2000: Das Fräulein und die Renaissance: Maria von Jever 1500-1575: Rule and culture in a Frisian residence of the 16th century , in: Vol. 23 of catalogs and writings of the Jever Castle Museum, Castle Museum Jever, Verlag Isensee, ISBN 3-8959-8711-5
personal data
SURNAME Garlichs, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garlichs, Hermann Anton Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Deputy and President of the Arrondissementrat Jever, Mayor of Jever
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Kniphausen
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1818
Place of death Jever