Heinrich von Borcke (civil servant)

Count Friedrich Heinrich von Borcke (born February 1, 1776 in Berlin ; † October 10, 1825 in Hueth ) was a Bergisch and Prussian civil servant.

family

Heinrich von Borcke was the son of the Prussian secret finance council and envoy Adrian Heinrich Graf von Borcke from the Pomeranian noble family Borcke , the son of Friedrich Wilhelm von Borcke and his wife Marianne nee du Chesne widowed Vattel. Like his father, Heinrich von Borcke was Protestant and not, like his mother, a Catholic denomination. Heinrich von Borcke inherited several estates, including Hueth Castle .

Heinrich von Borcke married Amalia, born in Halle in 1798, from Gaza (born May 8, 1782 in Regensburg, † August 30, 1855 at Hueth Castle), the daughter of the Chief Brigadier of the Ignatz von Gaza gendarmerie.

Life

Heinrich von Borcke attended high school and then studied forest and camera sciences at the University of Berlin and Halle University . After completing his studies, he initially worked for two years in the administration of his estate and then in the War and Domain Chamber in Münster with a focus on education. His interest was in the natural sciences. He was a member of various scientific societies and set up an observatory and a natural history cabinet in the castle . He was a supporter of Freemasonry and head of a lodge in Emmerich am Rhein . He was the founder of a drawing and vocational school for craftsmen in Emmerich.

In 1806 he entered the service of the Grand Duchy of Berg . He was taken over by Joachim Murat as school and domain councilor and in the same year he was used as head of the Arrondissement of Dillenburg . In 1809 he became prefect of the Rhine department . In 1812 he was transferred to Section 1 of the State Council of the Grand Duchy of Berg.

After the end of the Grand Duchy, he was busy organizing the Landsturm in 1814 . Afterwards he was commissioner for the areas ceded by Nassau to Prussia and from summer 1815 interim district director in the district of Siegen and from April 1816 interim district administrator in the district of Rees . At the end of 1818 he was released from this position at his own request. His financial circumstances did not develop very happily.

literature

• Meent W. Francksen: State Council and Legislation in the Grand Duchy of Berg. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-8204-7124-3 , pp. 230-231
• Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 373-374 .