Ernst Birck

Johann Baptist Ernst Gustav Birck (born February 9, 1838 in Cologne , † March 30, 1881 in Endenich ) was a Prussian administrative officer and district administrator of the Bergheim (Erft) district .

Life

Origin and education

Ernst Birck was the son of the Oberregierungsrat Johann Baptist Birck and Josefine Elisabeth Birck, geb. Meurers. As a graduate of the Rhenish Knight Academy in Bedburg , which he left in July 1857 when he passed his school- leaving examination , he then did his military service as a one-year volunteer . Parallel to this , he enrolled on October 23, 1857 at the University of Bonn , which he attended until the winter semester of 1858/59. He finished his law studies at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg . With its graduation he began on May 21, 1861 with his practical training as an auscultator at the Regional Court of Cologne . On May 1, 1863, Birck moved to the Trier district court in the same position .

Career

After passing the first state examination , he entered the Prussian administrative service as a government trainee on May 9, 1864, where he was employed by the governments in Trier and Breslau . After passing the higher state examination (November 13, 1867) he was appointed from December 30, 1867 as a government assessor in the Stettin government. Before he succeeded Otto Rintelen, who died on March 14, 1868 , as head of the Bergheim district administration on June 17 (appointed on July 1, 1868). Since June 17, 1876, however, he was no longer able to perform official business due to mental illness. Richard Herwarth von Bittenfeld took over the company on July 3rd . On the part of the supervisory authority, the government in Cologne, Birck's condition was attributed to the “isolated situation in the small, quiet Bergheim, which did not offer him a spiritually refreshing stimulus and appropriate contact”. This was preceded by the multiple “granting” of longer vacations. To November 30, 1877 for discussion found Birck was retired on April 1, 1878th

Birck, during his nine-year tenure in Bergheim certainly gained sympathy in the circle, in contrast to his predecessor, Adolf Carl Raitz von Frentz . He was praised in several submissions from community council members. According to a letter addressed anonymously to Adalbert Falk , the then Prussian Minister of Culture, during the Kulturkampf , Birck was “an ultra-Montan of the purest water”, which at the same time implied a close connection to the Center Party . While the district president in Cologne tried to invalidate the letter, she did not address the allegation regarding the political connection. As Birck should be 1877 finally asked for medical reasons up for grabs, who advised Upper President of the Rhine Province , Moritz von Bardeleben first to wait because he was "the same with the previous meritorious official guide for a double sensitive hardship" as early retirement felt, ultimately followed by the Farewell, however, in the same year.

family

The Catholic Ernst Birck married Anna Sophia Hubertina Cornelia Clemens (born December 5, 1843 in Gürath; second marriage to the Bonn notary Hermann J. Conzen), a daughter of the landowner on the Güratherhof, in Gürath Mayor's Office Frimmersdorf on June 15, 1869 , Heinrich Clemens and Anna Josepha Clemens, geb. Horn.

Individual evidence

^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, births, 1838, document no. 357.
^ Death certificate Ernst Birck, Landesarchiv NRW, Dept. Rhineland, PA 3103, No. 2491 f, Poppelsdorf, 1881, 100
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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 .
↑ Incorrect indication of the father's date of death in Romeyk.
^ Heinz Braschoss: Becoming and growing the district of Bergheim in: District of Bergheim (Hrsg.): 150 years of the district of Bergheim. 1816-1966. , Bergheim 1966, pp. 9-61, here p. 13 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Birck, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Birck, Johann Baptist Ernst Gustav (= full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian administrative officer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	March 30, 1881
Place of death	Endeich

[Geburtsurkunde-1] Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, births, 1838, document no. 357.

[SterbeurkundeMaxBirck-2] Death certificate Ernst Birck, Landesarchiv NRW, Dept. Rhineland, PA 3103, No. 2491 f, Poppelsdorf, 1881, 100

[Romeyk-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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 .

[4] Incorrect indication of the father's date of death in Romeyk.

[5] Heinz Braschoss: Becoming and growing the district of Bergheim in: District of Bergheim (Hrsg.): 150 years of the district of Bergheim. 1816-1966. , Bergheim 1966, pp. 9-61, here p. 13 f.