Georg Heinrich von Pancug

GH v. Pancug, portrait in the town hall of Heilbronn (created after 1900)

Georg Heinrich von Pancug (* July 18, 1717 in Heilbronn ; † March 3, 1783 ibid) was Mayor of Heilbronn from 1781 to 1783 .

Life

Pancug came from the Heilbronn branch of the Westphalian legal family Pancug. Her family crest was a gold-colored, crowned lion, who stands on a green mountain of three and is about to jump. Georg Heinrich Pancug was the grandson of the mayor Georg Friedrich Pancug (1653–1733) and son of the councilor Georg Conrad von Pancug. He attended the Heilbronner high school and enrolled at the University of Jena in trade law . In 1739 he returned to Heilbronn, where he established himself as a lawyer . In 1744 he entered the city service and in 1745 was a lawyer at the city court. In that year the knightly nobility was confirmed to him. In 1750 he became court advisor and in 1753 council counsel. From 1754 he belonged to the small, inner council ("von den burgern"), where he moved up to higher positions when an older council member resigned. In 1766 he was tax master .

In 1769 he was elected as one of the four tax owners to the city ​​school . This position was hierarchically higher than that of a tax owner and also connected to the bailiwick of the imperial town of Frankenbach , but it was poorly paid and also meant a temporary "banishment" from the city council, which only took place by returning to the office of mayor could be overcome. Pancug's complaint against the election and an original response from the council have survived. In the meantime, the reigning city councilor, Pancug had a “provocative” document circulated against the council in inns in 1770, which, however, found no response.

After the resignation of Mayor Georg Philipp Mylius in the spring of 1781, he finally became third mayor of Heilbronn and Vogt of Flein . He held the offices for almost two years until he died of a stroke in early March 1783. No significant events have come down to us from his term of office.

He was married to the bourgeois daughter Elisa Charlotte Feyerabend (1730–1795). The marriage remained childless, so that the Heilbronn branch of the Pancug in the male line died out with him. His sister Rosine Elisabeth (1716–1799), the mother of Admiral Heinrich August von Kinckel, survived .

The poet Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739–1791), a contemporary of Pancug, sees in him “the venerable ruins of a once excellent head; Laughing wit, British humor, rich memory, wide reading gave him a venerable reputation even in the rubble, like a porphyry column under the ruins of Palmyra ”. Moriz von Rauch describes Pancug in a text from 1916 as “gifted, educated and widely traveled, but without moral support, dissolute and full of ridicule”. The chronicler Wilhelm Steinhilber, on the other hand, sees him as a “calm and quiet man” and “worker in the service of the city”.

In 1765 the Pancug family built a vineyard house on the Heilbronner Stiftsberg, which became known as the pancake house (s) . In 1912 it was faithfully reconstructed by Ludwig Hahn. It was destroyed at the latest during the fighting for Heilbronn towards the end of the Second World War in April 1945. The rubble was cleared away during a vineyard clearing in 1959.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} entry Stiftsberg; Field name and vineyard location in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn City Archives , contemporary history collection, signature ZS-6713

literature

• Wilhelm Steinhilber: Mayor of Heilbronn in the 18th century (X) . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 12th year, no. 9 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, September 10, 1966, ZDB -ID 128017-X .
• Bernd Klagholz: Heilbronn and its mayors in the period from the 16th to the 19th century . Approval work, Tübingen 1980. p. 92
• Description of the Oberamt Heilbronn. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1903
• Moriz von Rauch: Heilbronn in the second half of the 18th century . In: From the Heilbronn city history. Selected essays on the history of the city of Heilbronn from volumes 1–16 of the yearbook of the Heilbronn Historical Society (yearbook for Swabian-Franconian history) . Jahrbuch Verlag, Weinsberg 1988. pp. 73-104
• From Stiftsberg and its "pancake house" . In: Not a beautiful country. A reading sheet on local history . No. 9 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, May 30, 1956, ZDB ID 133611-3 .
• Karl Hugo Popp and Hans Riexinger : On the history of the Heilbronn family Künckelin / von Kinckel . In: Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Jahrbuch 30, 1983, pp. 145–166, here p. 147 (on the ancestry of the Pancug).