Franz Welczek

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Franz Xaver Alexander Anton Welczek (born February 8, 1825 in Jastrzigowitz , Rosenberg district, † May 10, 1901 in Kreuzburg , Upper Silesia ) was the royal chancellery, head of the city council and honorary citizen of the city of Kreuzburg .

Live and act

Welczek was the son of the royal Prussian customs collector Franz Welczeck (1796–1886) and his wife Anna, née. Hertel. (* approx. 1799–1834) Franz Welczek grew up until the age of about 10 in Rosenberg in Upper Silesia and then in Woischnik Krs. Lublinitz .

In February 1851 he became a district court clerk in Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Since January 7, 1862 he was a member of the local city ​​council , which he chaired since January 12, 1870. Promoted to secretary of the district court in Kreuzburg, Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded him the honorary title of Royal Chancellery in April 1891 .

On February 22nd and 24th, 1895 the city council and the city council decided to give Welczek honorary citizenship because of his services as chairman of the city council. Welczek was jointly responsible for the fortunes of Kreuzburg up to the turn of the century and was responsible for the development of the Upper Silesian town. Only in 1924 was another person made an honorary citizen of Kreuzburg.

From July 25 to 27, 1903, the Silesian Forest Association met for the 61st General Assembly in Kreuzburg. Here Welczek was honored again posthumously. In his honor, an oak was planted in the Kreuzburg city forest "on Agnesweg". Two more trees were dedicated to the Kreuzburg-born writer Gustav Freytag and the parliamentarian Eduard Count von Bethusy-Huc . The latter was also an honorary citizen of the city.

family

Franz Welczek married Bertha Louise Agnes, b. Lorenz (born August 26, 1829 in Kreuzburg, † after 1902 in Breslau ). The couple had five children, three sons and two daughters. A daughter, Olga Elsbeth Anna Bertha Welczek, married the royal church music director Emil Dercks . Their daughter, the dentist Hella Dercks, married the geologist Hans von Staff called von Reitzenstein , son of the court president Adolph von Staff called von Reitzenstein .

literature

  • H. Menz: Kreuzburg's honorary citizen . Ed .: Working group for home care. Volume 1. Kreuzburger Nachrichten G. mb H., Kreuzburg 1925
  • Schirmacher: Negotiations of the 61st General Assembly of the Silesian Forest Association in Kreuzburg OS from June 25th to 27th, 1903 . Ed .: E. Morgenstern, Yearbook of the Silesian Forest Association for 1903, Breslau 1903

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catholic church book Kostellitz, Krs. Rosenberg, baptism, February 12, 1825
  2. ^ Registry office Kreuzburg OS death register no.107 / 1901
  3. ↑ Pankow registry office near Berlin, death register no. 38/1886
  4. ↑ https://szukajwarchiwach.pl/45/3290/0/-/1/skan/full/t2U-s4z2mZeJ_Sy2FoHM4g
  5. ^ Opole (government district): Official journal of the government president in Opole: 1851 . Government of Opole, 1851 ( google.de [accessed February 13, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Ruven Pillay <ruven@users.sourceforge.netm>: IIPMooViewer 2.0: HTML5 High Resolution Image Viewer. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Evangelical Church Book Kreuzburg OS Taufen No. 80/1829
  8. ↑ registry office Kreuzburg marriage certificate 27/1878
  9. ↑ Working group for home care: Home calendar of the Kreuzburg district, page 58. Retrieved on February 13, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Schirmacher: Yearbook of the Silesian Fort Association for 1903, page 76/77. Retrieved February 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Welczek, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welczek, Franz Xaver Alexander Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal chancellery as well as city councilor and honorary citizen of the city of Kreuzburg
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Jastrzigowitz , Rosenberg district
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1901
Place of death Kreuzburg , Upper Silesia