Christian Bacciocco

Christian Bacciocco (born January 25, 1799 in Cologne ; † 1869 ) was mayor of Mettmann and of Obergeburth and Niedergeburth ( Mönchengladbach ).

Christian Bacciocco

Life

Christian Bacciocco, about whose life little is known, was born on January 25, 1799 in Cologne as the son of Anton Albert Bacciocco and Maria Margarethe Honnen van Bochem. He was an officer in the 7th Artillery Guard and married Catharina Kühlwetter on October 28, 1830 in Düsseldorf. In 1841 he took his leave as prime lieutenant in the artillery. From 1835 to 1839 Bacciocco was mayor of Grevenbroich and Frimmersdorf. During this time he is said to have been reported by an agent of a Prussian secret police, District Administrator Schnabel von Mülheim am Rhein, as a “dangerous individual” who “takes the party of the rationalists and lives with them on friendly terms” during the Düsseldorf government president thought he was quite reliable. "

Bacciocco was the mayor of Mettmann from May 15, 1839 to July 30, 1844.

In 1844 he was appointed mayor of Munich-Gladbach, Obergeburth and Niedergeburth by the Prussian government. He carried out his office from August 1, 1844 as successor to Jakob Kühnhaus until mid-April 1852. The eight-year term of office in Gladbach was marked by numerous, sometimes violent, political disputes in the course of the German Revolution in 1848 and 1849. In the previous election of the mayor on March 2, 1852, he was unanimously approved according to the municipal code announced in 1850 Re-elected municipal councilors. However, he was then not confirmed by the Prussian government without giving reasons, which apparently considered his re-election to be an affront. A commission set up by Bacciocco to investigate his official business did not materialize. Bacciocco's rather passive stance on the street fights between citizens and the military that took place in Düsseldorf , Neuss , Elberfeld and Gladbach on May 9 and 10, 1849 , after the failure of the Frankfurt National Assembly convened by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . Around 2,000 revolutionaries from Gladbach moved to Neuss ( Neusser Zug ) to unite with the local democrats and storm the arsenal occupied by Prussian troops. The building served a Landwehr regiment as a military armory during this time. Vigilante groups from Dahlen , Hardt , Schelsen and Giesenkirchen were also involved . The vigilante group from Rheydt decided expressly against the march . The activists of the revolution enjoyed Bacciocco's sympathy and were tolerated or even supported by him. No other sources are available on this. After a court case, the co-defendant District Administrator Joseph von der Straeten preferred to retire. After leaving office, Bacciocco initially took over temporarily the administration of the tax office in Kevelaer and later the post of tax collector in the city of Wermelskirchen .

Others

During his tenure as mayor of the independent city of Munich-Gladbach , the spelling was changed to M. Gladbach on November 11, 1841 in order to differentiate it from Bergisch Gladbach, located east of Cologne .

literature

• Wolfgang Löhr with the support of the Sparkasse Foundation for Art and Science, the Reiners Foundation GmbH and the Josef and Hilde Wilberz Foundation (ed.): Loca Desiderata, Mönchengladbacher Stadtgeschichte . tape 3.1 . Rheinland-Verlag- und Betriebsgesellschaft des Landschaftsverband Rheinland mbH, Brauweiler Abbey, Pulheim 2003, ISBN 3-7927-1883-9 , p. 90 ff .

References and individual references

1. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Düsseldorf, 72/1835, p. 535 and 74/1835, p. 548.
2. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Düsseldorf, 31/1839, p. 219
3. ^ On the history of the Rhenish family Bacciocco, in: Mitteilungen der Westdeutsche Gesellschaft für Familienkunde, Volume VII, Issue 4 (September 1931), p. 129; Cited therein: Heinrich Schrörs: The secret police on the Rhine at the time of the Cologne turmoil 1837-38 with special consideration for Aachen, in: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein, year 1926 27, page 57 below.
4. ^ ^{A b} Andreas Gruhn: The unfortunate Christian Bacciocco . Series: Our Mayors. In: Rheinische Post . Mönchengladbach August 16, 2010, p. C2 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelm Bell: Places of Peace . From former church yards in Alt-Gladbach. In: Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Mönchengladbach eV (Hrsg.): Writings of the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Mönchengladbach eV Volume II . Mönchengladbach 1985, p. 78 .
6. ↑ Hans Nolden, Bernhard Dünte, Eduard Richartz, Peter Neumann, Franz Wiebringhaus: Our home. An old-time book . A local history of the M. Gladbach = Rheydter industrial district and its immediate surroundings. Ed .: Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Mönchengladbach eV 3rd edition. Commission publisher Fritz Kerlé, Mönchengladbach 1926, p. 123 ff .
7. ↑ Armory . City of Neuss. Retrieved March 27, 2016.