Georg Bärsch

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Georg Bärsch
photo from 1866

Georg Friedrich Bärsch (also Bärsch) (* the thirtieth September 1778 in Berlin , † 7. January 1866 in Koblenz ), Privy Councilor of the Royal Prussian government , was the first district of the county Prüm . He became known as the editor of the Eifelia illustrata of the historian Johann Friedrich Schannat (1683–1739) and the author of treatises on the history of the Eifel . He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn for his historical research .

origin

His parents were royal Prussian war commissioner Johann Georg Bärsch (1740–1823) and his wife Anna Dorothea Schwahn († 1780).

Live and act

Georg Bärsch was born in Berlin on September 30, 1778. After completing his commercial training, he entered Prussian military services in 1806 and was involved in battles against the French occupation forces, including the temporary liberation of the city of Stralsund by Major Ferdinand von Schill's hussar regiment in 1809.

Despite his patriotic zeal and his membership in the Tugendbund , he was unable to make a great military career, as his obedience led him to all too spectacular warlike solo efforts. He even had to leave the Prussian army for a while after facing the wrath of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. because he had invaded French-occupied Berlin on his own with 30 Cossacks. Baersch fled to Hamburg and joined the Hanseatic Legion , where he was promoted to major and captain .

The Prussian Minister of State Karl August von Hardenberg brought him back into Prussian service in 1814 and entrusted him with the organization of the Landwehr construction in the Aachen and Koblenz area. However, Baersch soon left the Prussian army and from 1816 took on political functions in the reorganization of the Rhine Province that fell to Prussia after the Congress of Vienna . After brief activities in the newly formed districts of Lechenich and Soest , he became the first district administrator in the Prüm district in 1819.

Georg Bärsch belonged to the Freemason Lodge in Trier, Zum Verein der Menschenfreunde . He developed a great interest in his new field of activity, which was reflected theoretically in detailed studies of the history of the Eifel and practically in a tireless effort to improve the backward economic and cultural conditions in this area. He built schools, promoted the education of teachers and priests and expanded the Eifel traffic route network, which was neglected by French rule.

Due to his merits, the Prussian king promoted the district administrator to the government council of the Trier district government in 1834, where Bärsch made the statistical inventory of the economic and cultural conditions in the district of Trier for the Prussian government under the title “Description of the Trier District”. He was promoted to secret government councilor and retired in 1848. Irritated by the political turmoil of the Vormärz , as a result of which the arsenal in Prüm was stormed by hordes of revolutionary farmers, Baersch retired to Koblenz in 1848, where he devoted himself entirely to his historical studies. He died in 1866 at the age of 88. His estate is in the Koblenz State Main Archive .

family

Bärsch was married twice. His first wife was Juliane Wilhelmine Eltze († 1836), a daughter of the merchant Gottfried Eltze from Berlin and Juliane Weyher . After her death on June 7, 1843, he married Emilie von der Mark (* 1805), a daughter of the royal Prussian war commissioner and later directorate Wilhelm von der Mark and Helena von Gahlen . Both marriages remained childless.

Historical estate

"To the historian of the Eifel district administrator Georg Bärsch" - Bärsch monument in Prüm

In his autobiographical work, memories from my busy life. with the title addition Manuscript for my friends , Bärsch himself lists the works he has published.

Eiflia illustrata

See also main article Eiflia illustrata

In addition to his work as a Prussian civil servant , Bärsch passionately collected documents and files on the history of the royal houses and monasteries in the Eifel and the Rhineland. His estate is in the Koblenz State Main Archive . He became aware of the existence of a writing by the historian Johann Friedrich Schannat (1683-1739) about the Eifel, which he had written for the Archbishop of Prague and Count of Blankenheim-Manderscheid under the title Eiflia illustrata in 1739. Bärsch found an illustrated copy of the work in the grand ducal library in Darmstadt . He had the manuscript written in Latin, a historical-geographical description of the Eifel, translated into German and updated and supplemented the statements it contained. He added numerous documents from his extensive collection, so that Schannat's manuscript grew into an eight-volume work, which Bärsch published in three volumes between 1824 and 1855.

The Eiflia with the full title Eiflia Illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel by Johann Friedrich Schannat, 1739. Excerpt from the Latin manuscripts translated and enriched with comments and additions by Georg Bärsch, 1852 is still one of the most important standard works of historical and geographical Eifel literature. It was reissued in Osnabrück in 1966.

Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine

Georg Baersch was a member of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine and published the results of his historical research in its annals.Already in the second issue of the specialist publication, which has appeared since 1855, his article: News about monasteries of the Premonstratensian Order, especially in the Rhineland and Westphalia, was printed. In issue 7 he published a study on the English noble family Bertie and in 1860 in issue 8 documents on the Abbeys of Malmedy and Stablo .

Monographs

  • Some historical news about Stadtkyll in the district of Prüm, and about the previous owners of this place, the Counts of Manderscheid. Johann Peter Bachem , Cologne 1821
  • Johann Friedrich Schannat and Georg Bärsch: Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel . Johann Peter Bachem, Cologne 1824, digitized from Googlebooks
  • Moselle stream from Metz to Coblenz . 1841.
  • Description of the administrative district of Trier . 1848-49.
  • Contributions to the history of the Tugendbund . Hamburg 1852.
  • The Steinfeld Premonstratensian Monastery . 1857.

Biographical writings

  • Ferdinand von Schill Zug and death in 1809 , 1860.
  • Memories from my busy life. Beaufort, Aachen 1857.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Jung: The lodge “To the Association of Human Friends” 1805 - 2005 , as of October 26, 2009
  2. ↑ Monika Rolef: Storming the Armory in Prüm. In: The Prümer Landbote. Journal of the Prümer Land history association. 28th vol. 2, 2009, p. 11
  3. ↑ a b Link to the estate, Dr. Georg Bärsch (1778–1866), administrative officer and historian, LHAKo, inventory 700,054, In: Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz (accessed on July 14, 2020)
  4. ^ 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. 338 f .
  5. ↑ Memories from my busy life. Beaufort, Aachen 1857
  6. ↑ Schannat-Bärsch: Eiflia illustrata or the geographical and historical description of the Eifel. Osnabrück 1966
  7. ^ Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine Bonn and Cologne since 1855.
  8. ^ Georg Bärsch: News about monasteries of the Premonstratensian order, especially in the Rhineland and Westphalia . In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine . Volume 2, 1855, pp. 141-195; Georg Bärsch: News about monasteries of the Premonstratensian order, especially in the Rhineland and Westphalia . In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine . Volume 3, 1856, pp. 63-115
  9. ↑ Georg Bärsch: Peregrinus Bertie. In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine. Volume 7, 1859, pp. 122-130
  10. ^ Georg Baersch: News about the Abbeys Malmedy and Stablo. In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine . Volume 8, 1860, pp. 29-111
  11. ^ Ferdinand von Schill's Zug und Tod in 1809 , in memory of d. Heroes & d. Comrades-in-arms, by Georg Bärsch, Voss, 1860, 343 p. In the Google book search
  12. ↑ Memories from my busy life: as a manuscript for my friends, by Georg Bärsch, In: delibri.de
personal data
SURNAME Bärsch, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baersch, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German regional historian and district administrator for the Prüm district
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1866
Place of death Koblenz