Georg Christoph Kornacher
Georg Christoph Kornacher (born March 20, 1725 in Heilbronn ; † January 18, 1803 there ) was mayor of the imperial city of Heilbronn from 1784 . He was the last incumbent mayor of the imperial city and was relieved of his office on November 23, 1802 when the city was transferred to Württemberg .
Life
He was named the son of Lic. Iur. Johann Christoph Kornacher and Maria Magdalena née Geiling, daughter of the Mayor of Heilbronn, Johann Georg Geiling . Since 1711 his father worked for the knightly canton of Odenwald of the knightly circle of Franconia of the imperial knighthood in Kochendorf as archive secretary, syndic and consultant.
Kornacher studied law at the University of Halle and then worked for a year with the Prince of Birkenfeld in Gelnhausen . He then returned to Heilbronn, where he joined the city as archivist in 1757. From 1758 he was a member of the small, inner (“von den burgern”) council. In 1784 he was elected third mayor. His mother's sister was the wife of the second mayor Georg Heinrich von Roßkampff , whom he addressed as "uncle". After his uncle's death, Kornacher took up the second position of mayor in 1794. At that time, the imperial city of Heilbronn had three mayors, whose rank only differed in terms of remuneration and who took turns in office for four months each. In addition to the mayor's office, Kornacher held numerous other offices: he was the bailiff of the imperial town of Flein , visitor to the pharmacies, sea master, hunter master, caretaker of the Klarakloster , scholarch , librarian and master rifleman as well as lord and craftsman at the Kramer Society, the cooper, lathe operators, combmakers and dyeing.
He was the last incumbent mayor of the imperial city of Heilbronn, which came to Württemberg through the events of the Napoleonic Wars . On September 2, 1802, Kornacher took over the official business from the first mayor Gottlob Moriz Christian von Wacks . Just a week later, the Württemberg military occupied the imperial city. On November 23, 1802 Kornacher was removed from office by a declaration of removal. Almost two months later, on January 18, 1803, he died of a stroke. On March 25, 1803, the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss sealed the occupation of Württemberg.
Kornacher was married from 1767 to Margareta Katharina Uhl (1746-1811), daughter of the rose landlord Johann Georg Uhl and sister of August Uhl, archivist at the Kraichgau archive in Heilbronn, ie at the local archive of the knightly canton of Kraichgau of the knightly circle of Swabia of the imperial knighthood . The marriage had five daughters: Margarete Friedericke Kornacher married the Prussian major Wilhelm von Rosenberg. Johanna Charlotte Kornacher became the wife of the pharmacist Safer . The third daughter, Elisabeth Gottlieb Kornacher (1773-1858), married the Heilbronn city doctor Christian Johann Klett and was for a long time the role model for Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn , which was rejected by recent research. The fourth daughter, Augusta Maria, married Christian Friedrich Klett, who would later become the Alpirsbach governor. The youngest daughter Wilhelmine Catherina Kornacher married the Württemberg officer Georg Friedrich Scharffenstein (1758-1817) in 1804 , who was one of the Württemberg troops that occupied Heilbronn in September 1802.
The Kornacherstraße in Heilbronn, which has since been repealed, was named after Kornacher from 1923 to 2008 .
literature
- Wilhelm Steinhilber: Mayor of Heilbronn in the 18th century (XI) . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 12th year, no. 10 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, October 8, 1966, ZDB -ID 128017-X .
- Bernd Klagholz: Heilbronn and its mayors in the period from the 16th to the 19th century. Tübingen 1980, p. 93
- Harald Hoffmann: Constitution and administration of the imperial city Heilbronn at the end of the old empire. In: Yearbook for Swabian-Franconian History. 26, 1969, ISSN 0175-9841 , pp. 143-155.
- Christhard Schrenk, Hubert Weckbach: “Preserving the past for the future”. The Heilbronn City Archives: History - Tasks - Holdings (= publications of the Heilbronn City Archives 33). Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1993, ISBN 3-928990-41-1 .
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| SURNAME | Kornacher, Georg Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Heilbronn (1784–1802) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1725 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1803 |
| Place of death | Heilbronn |