Georg Friedrich Borcke

Georg Friedrich Borcke (born March 8, 1611 in Krienke , † April 8, 1660 in Greifswald ) was a German judge at the Upper Tribunal in Wismar and at the Royal Swedish Court in Greifswald .

Life

Georg Friedrich Borcke came from the Pomeranian noble family Borcke . He studied at the universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig . In 1635 he became a trainee lawyer and in 1646 an assessor at the court in Wolgast . He was also canon of the cathedral chapter in Cammin in 1649 .

When the Upper Tribunal Wismar was founded in 1653, he became its oldest assessor and deputy to David Mevius . In 1656 he was appointed director of the Pomeranian court in Greifswald as the successor to the late Arnold von Bohlen , where he worked until the end of his life.

literature

• The life of the Weyland benevolent Magnifici well-bored and well-known Mr. Georg Friderich Borcken, hereditary lord of Krincke, Regenwalde and Wißburg, etc. His Royal Mayesty in Sweden at the Hofgerichte in the Hertzogthum Vorpommern and Fürstenthum Rügen decreed Directoris, also Canonici at the Camminschen Thum-Capittelonici . Greifswald 1734. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
• Nils Jörn: The Wismar Tribunal in its relations with the Reich Chamber Court and the Reichshofrat. In: Leopold Auer, Werner Ogris, Eva Ortlieb (eds.): Highest courts in Europe. Building blocks of early modern legal systems (= sources and research on the highest jurisdiction in the Old Kingdom. Vol. 53). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-20035-0 , pp. 81–96, here p. 84 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature about Georg Friedrich Borcke in the state bibliography MV