Jakob Liessem

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Jakob Leonard Maria Liessem (baptized April 29, 1785 in Bonn , † May 1, 1832 in Bernkastel ) was a Prussian district administrator in the Bernkastel district .

Origin and life

Jakob Liessem was a son of the baker Gabriel Liessem and his wife Katharina, née Schubag. After the Electoral Cologne Academy in Bonn was abolished by France in 1798 , he received his higher education at the newly established central school in Bonn. During the French period he worked for “practical legal scholars” in notaries' offices in Cologne and Aachen in order to further his education , before entering the civil service. In 1813 he was first Chief of Cabinet in the prefecture of Münster , then in 1814 Division Chief of Generalgouvernment-commissariat in Aachen and 1816 government secretary in the government of Cologne . In 1816 Liessem was appointed District Administrator of the Bernkastel district, which he remained in service until his death in 1832.

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  1. a b c Publication of the Society for Rhenish Regional Studies LXIX, The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province, 1816–1945, by Horst Romeyk, Düsseldorf 1994, Liessem, Jakob Leonard Maria, cath., P. 605, In: Universitäts- und Cologne City Library (accessed April 17, 2020)