Thank God Heinrich von Birckholtz

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Gottlob Heinrich von Birckholtz (born June 27, 1706 in Stechau , † September 4, 1787 ibid) was a German lawyer. He was the electoral Saxon court judge in Wittenberg and district chamber councilor, also chief tax collector and manor owner.

Life

Stechau Castle - built under Gottlob Heinrich von Birckholtz

He came from the von Birckholtz family and was the son of Gottlob Georg von Birckholtz and his wife Johanna nee von Witzleben . Gottlob Heinrich embarked on an administrative career in the service of the Wettins . As a lawyer, he became a judge at the court in Wittenberg . He also worked as a district councilor and chief tax collector for the Elector of Saxony in Dresden.

He took over the Stechau manor from his father and had a representative baroque palace built at his own expense in 1752 as the manor house .

In 1771 he sued the Kurkreis-Deputation and the estates of said district for bringing in and delivering the knightly remains, including advance payments from the war years.

family

Gottlob Heinrich von Birckholtz left the following five children at the time of his death in 1787:

  • Gottlob Leopold von Birckholtz, court judge
  • Wilhelm Heinrich von Birckholtz, chamberlain and supervisor
  • George Heinrich von Birckholtz, Premier Lieutenant
  • Carl Friedrich von Birckholtz, Chamberlain
  • Johanna Louisa used Court judge from Vittinghoff b. by Birckholtz.

His children sold their father's estate in 1791 to their brother and co-owner, George Heinrich von Birckholtz, who had meanwhile risen to Rittmeister. He died childless, single and without a will on March 26, 1812, whereby Stechau Castle was inherited by relatives of his wife.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ European genealogical manual , 1756, p. 157.
  2. ↑ A. Privata the status of the knighthood of the district judge Gottlob Heinrich von Birkholz and consorts against the district deputation, both the status of the said district for bringing in and delivering the knightly remains as well as advance payments from the war years. Act, 1771. In: German Digital Library . June 26, 2017, accessed on November 25, 2017 (catalog entry of the files in the Saxony-Anhalt state archive ).
  3. ↑ The occasional statement that he and his children were barons and baronesses, for example here [1] , is not tenable.
personal data
SURNAME Birckholtz, Gottlob Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral lawyer, court judge and chief tax collector as well as manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH Stechau
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1787
Place of death Stechau