Conrad Moritz

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Johann Conrad Moritz (also written Moriz ; born on March 15, 1787 in Prüm ; died on September 22, 1881 there ) was a Prussian district administrator in the Prüm district and judge at the district court in Aachen .

Life

The unmarried Catholic Conrad Moritz was the son of the wholesaler Anton Moritz and his wife Anna Maria Moritz, née Thives. His first school education has not been handed down. From 1798 to 1800, however, he attended a monastery school and in 1800 the grammar school in Trier . Sworn in as surnumeraire de l'enregistrement on December 13, 1805 in what was then the French Département de la Sarre (Saardepartement) administered from Trier , he began studying law in 1807 , completing it on December 19, 1810 as a lawyer at the Court of Appeal was sworn in in Trier. On August 5, 1811, he was sworn in as 1st  substitute at the state procurator in Kusel and on August 7, 1814 he was appointed provisional state procurator in Echternach (sworn in on September 22, 1814).

As a result of the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , Kusel came to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 and Echternach to Luxembourg. Moritz changed to Prussian services and from 1817 found employment as a judge at the Aachen district court. Three years later, on May 4, 1820, he was appointed state procurator in his hometown of Prüm. He remained in this position until he was appointed District Administrator of the Prüm District with the highest cabinet order (AKO) of May 4, 1835 and subject to the examination, which he took on July 22, 1835. Previously, the district had been administered for many years by Georg Bärsch (1819–1834) and most recently since 1834 by Franz Heinrich Rumschöttel . Moritz's inauguration and swearing-in followed on August 29, 1835. He remained in office until his retirement on February 1, 1850.

According to Franz Josef Faas, Conrad Moritz's father, Anton Moritz, got on very well with the monks of the Prüm Abbey and brought their relics (parts of Christ's sandals ) to safety before the French invaded Frankfurt in 1794. On the occasion of an exhibition of the Holy Rock in Trier in 1810, the sandals were remembered in Prüm and Conrad Moritz was sent to Frankfurt to fetch them back from there.

During Moritz's tenure as district administrator in Prüm, he was marked by famine (1840 to 1842) and the ensuing waves of emigration (1843 to 1846). Not a little that Bärsch had built up before was destroyed again during this time. The population was critical of the bureaucratic police state and preferred a popular monarchy. After the introduction of the new Prussian constitution of 1848 , only 8,182 residents were eligible to vote, i.e. around one in four, only 3.5% exercised the right to vote. Officials, teachers and clergy abstained from voting. The Democrats received even greater approval than the Liberals, especially in Waxweiler , Schönecken and Dasburg . The Zeughaussturm on May 18, 1849 was followed by a trial in which Moritz also testified as a witness. After the first elections, based on the new three-class suffrage, on July 17 and 27, 1849, Moritz had to report the political behavior of the district officials to a higher authority, an uncomfortable situation for him. It was claimed that the middle and lower classes of the population did not yet have the necessary political maturity. In the aftermath of the revolution of 1848, the regional presidents called for the “regeneration of the district offices” where they were “sick”. In relation to his area of ​​office, the newly appointed district president Wilhelm Sebaldt described the district administrators in Wittlich ( Anton Hisgen , transferred to Cologne in 1849 as a councilor) and Prüm (Moritz) as weak, Friedrich Hesse (Saarbrücken, retired in 1849) and Nikolaus Thilmany (Bitburg, 1849) suspended) as (politically) bad. After his departure in 1850, Moritz remained politically active and in 1858 allowed himself to be standardized as a candidate for the clerical party.

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  1. ^ A b c Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 639 .
  2. ^ Horst Romeyk: Moritz, Konrad, District Administrator in: Heinz Monz (Ed.): Trier biographical lexicon . Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , p. 308. Romeyk writes there that Moritz, who remained unmarried, only wanted to resign voluntarily in 1850 if his son, who applied unsuccessfully but vehemently, was named his successor.
  3. ↑ Supernumerar on the registry.
  4. ^ A b c Franz Josef Faas: 14th District Administrator Friedrich Heinrich August von Harlem in: The district administrators of the Prüm district. In: District Administrator of the Prüm District (ed.): Yearbook District Prüm 1968, Prüm 1967, pp. 28-30.
  5. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 216 and note 425 .
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SURNAME Moritz, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moritz, Johann Conrad (full name); Moriz, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator of the Prüm district and judge at the district court in Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Prüm
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1881
Place of death Prüm