Georg Leberecht von Wilcke

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Georg Leberecht Wilcke , also Wilke (born March 6, 1699 in Herzberg (Elster) ; † December 2, 1761 in Dresden ) was a court and government advisor, lawyer, cabinet councilor and archivist of the Electorate of Saxony .

Life

He was the son of Georg Lebrecht Wilcke (born January 30, 1666 in Meißen; February 18, 1756 ibid), Doctor theologiae , superintendent and cathedral preacher in Meißen, and Sophie Elisabeth Wildvogel (born September 5, 1676 in Dresden; † May 21 1748 in Meissen). His father came from the pedagogue Johann Georg Wilcke and Maria Barthels from Prettin . His mother was the daughter of the lawyer Christian Wildvogel , legal counsel in Dresden and later consistorial and commission councilor of the Duchy of Merseburg in Halle (Saale) , and his wife Rebekka Alemann.

Wilcke first studied law and obtained a doctorate in law . In 1726 he became ducal councilor of Saxony-Merseburg and chamber secretary, later court counselor in the secret chamber college. In 1729 he married Catharina Elisabeth Streitel in Merseburg , daughter of the electoral and princely personal physician Johann David Streitel.

After the Sachsen-Merseburg line died out in 1738, Wilcke was named court and judicial councilor of the Electoral Saxony. In 1740 and 1745 he was a secret trainee lawyer at the Imperial Vicariate Court. In November 1741 he became a real court and judiciary in the state government.

On November 13th, 1755 Georg Leberecht Wilcke was ennobled (imperial aristocracy Vienna) and was called from then on "von Wilcke". He was recognized by the Electorate of Saxony on December 20, 1755. He was the master of Paußnitz near Strehla .

Georg Leberecht von Wilcke was director of the Secret Archives in Dresden from 1753 until his death in 1761 .

literature

  • Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X .
  • Kurt Wensch : Archive history and genealogy: on the social origin of leading Saxon archivists. In: Contributions to archival science and historical research. ed. with the support of the Historical Commission of the Saxon Acad. der Wiss. on Leipzig by Reiner Groß and Manfred Kobuch , Böhlau, Weimar 1977, p. 155.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Kurt Wensch: Archive history and genealogy: on the social origin of leading Saxon archivists. P. 155.
  2. ^ A b Wolfgang Leesch: The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, p. 666.
personal data
SURNAME Wilcke, Georg Leberecht von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilke, Georg Leberecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon lawyer and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzberg (Elster)
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1761
Place of death Dresden