Franz Boccius

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Karl Franz Bernhard Boccius (born November 18, 1831 in Neustrelitz , † May 20, 1907 in Blankenburg , Thuringia ) was a German lawyer and secret councilor .

Life and work

Franz Boccius, son of a chamber councilor , studied law a. a. in Göttingen, where he joined the newly founded fraternity of Hannovera in the winter semester of 1848/49 . After passing the usual state exams, he was a lawyer in Neustrelitz for a short time. He then joined the judicial service of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and worked as a judicial assessor in Schönberg. After the establishment of the common Mecklenburg Tax and Customs Directorate in Schwerin in 1863, he became the third member of the new authority with the character of a tax council; In 1871 he was chief customs officer. When in the years after 1871 special tasks were outsourced from the Reich Chancellery and transferred to Reich offices (Reich ministries), he was given a new, influential position in 1876 when the Reich Treasury Office was founded in Berlin. He was one of the few non-Prussian officials of the higher service who rose to head of department with the title of Privy Councilor. At his own request, he was released in 1891. He then worked as a lawyer in Blankenburg / Thuringia until his death. He made a contribution to the Tonkünstlerverein for Neustrelitz and the surrounding area, which later appointed him honorary president.

Honors

Publications

  • F. Boccius: On the reform of beer taxation in the German Empire , in: Georg Hirth (Hrsg.): Annalen des Deutschen Reiches for legislation, administration and statistics, Verlag von G. Hirth, Leipzig, vol. 9 (1876), p. 52 -75
  • F. Boccius: Comments on a general Reich beer tax , in: Georg Horth and Max von Seidel (eds.): Annalen des Deutschen Reiches for legislation, administration and statistics, published by G. Hirth, Leipzig and Munich, vol. 30 ( 1897), pp. 109-142

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , p. 103.
  • Grand Duke. Mecklenburg-Strelitzer Official Gazette for Legislation and State Administration of March 18, 1860, p. 14
  • Weekly advertisements for the Principality of Ratzeburg 1863, No. 25 (from June 19), p. 1 and 1871, No. 32 (from April 25), p. 3
  • Court and State Manual of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1876, p. 106
  • Prussian administration sheet. Weekly for Administration and Administrative Justice in Prussia , Berlin, Volume IX, No. 33 of May 12, 1888, p. 2
  • Handbook for the German Reich to the year 1889 , Berlin, p. 192
  • Rudolf Morsey : The highest Reich administration under Bismarck 1867-1890 , Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung Münster Westfalen, 1957, pages 205 and 252

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the report of the Hannovera student union in Göttingen on the winter semester 1907 : died on May 16, 1907 in Neustrelitz
  2. ↑ (Boccius, Friedrich Wilhelm, lawyer and privy councilor, author of works on Mecklenburg, GND 134171519 )
  3. ↑ http://wafr.lbmv.de/wafr_org.php?action=1863-06-19&nr=25&s=1
  4. ↑ http://wafr.lbmv.de/show.php?action=1871-04-25 "Helene Laspeyres, Franz Boccius, Oberzollrath, betrothed. Berlin and Schwerin, April 18, 1871."
  5. ↑ http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27612492?uid=3737864&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=47698843019537
personal data
SURNAME Boccius, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boccius, Karl Franz Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and secret senior government councilor
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1907
Place of death Blankenburg , Thuringia