Johann Baptist Birck

Johann Baptist Birck (* 17th April 1804 in Trier ; † 24. April 1869 in Cologne ) was a Prussian administrative officer and Acting President of the Government of the administrative district of Trier and the administrative district of Cologne .

Life

The Catholic Johann Baptist Birck was a son of the later President of the Trier District Court , Johann Damian Ernst Joseph Birck and his wife Gertrud Birck, nee Runten. After studying law , Johann Baptist entered the Prussian judicial service. There he worked as a court assessor and later procurator in district courts in Trier, Dusseldorf and Cologne , before he in 1835 as General Counsel and Executive Council moved to the Royal Prussian government in Cologne. As a legal advisor, he was involved in the arrest of Cologne Archbishop Clemens August Droste zu Vischering on November 20, 1837 .

In 1843 Birck was then transferred to the Royal Prussian Government in Trier under appointment to the senior government council . When its president, Rudolf von Auerswald , was appointed to Berlin in March 1848 and shortly afterwards took over the management of the Upper Presidium of the Province of East Prussia , Birck took over the administration of the Trier administrative district until April 1849. After the new Trier district president Wilhelm Sebaldt took up his post on April 28, 1849 ( appointment : April 7, 1849) Birck returned to Cologne. There he headed Department I until his death and was also the deputy district president. With the appointment of the incumbent District President Eduard von Moeller as civil administrator of the Electorate of Hesse on June 21, 1866, Johann Baptist Birck headed the Royal Prussian Government in Cologne on an interim basis until April 1867. In Cologne he also held numerous secondary positions, for which he received an additional payment of 1,100 Reichstalers annually, which corresponded to the annual salary of a government councilor. Birck was chairman of the board of directors of the Cologne grammar school and foundation fund , chairman of the administrative commissions of the provincial midwife training institute in Cologne and the labor institute in Brauweiler as well as state commissioner of the A. Schaaffhausen'sche Bankverein , the Concordia mutual insurance company and - after long reluctance on the part of the company the ministries - including the Cologne private bank.

family

Johann Baptist Birck had been married to Josephina Elisabeth Birck, née Meurers, in Koblenz since October 15, 1834 (died between 1881 and 1903 in Moselweiss ). After the Birck – Meurers, Josephina Antonia Maria Birck, the first child born in Cologne on April 4, 1836, others followed, including 1838 the son Ernst , 1868–1876 district administrator of the Bergheim district (Erft) and 1841 the religious teacher and later a doctorate Canon Professor Max imilian Bernhard August Birck (born February 6, 1840 in Cologne, 1869 in Mülheim on the Rhine resident, died on 25 November 1903 in Aachen).

The grandparents of Johann Baptist Birck were from Cochem originating spouses Franz Joseph Birck (* 1746) and his wife Margaretha, born Finger. A brother of the grandmother Margaretha was the Cochem official administrator and city schoolteacher Arnold Joseph Finger .

Honors

• 1867 Red Eagle Order II. Class with oak leaves

literature

• August Klein: The personnel policy of the Hohenzollern monarchy in the Cologne government. A contribution to Prussian personnel policy on the Rhine. (= Publications of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, especially the old Archdiocese of Cologne, 10), L. Schwann , Düsseldorf 1967, DNB 457217359 ; Pp. 98-99.
• 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Monz : Birck, Johann Baptist , In: "Trierer Biographisches Lexikon" , WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , p. 32 f.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive, Rhineland Civil Status Archive, Civil Status Register, Cologne Regional Court District, Cologne Registry Office, Deaths, 1869, Certificate No. 1372.
3. ^ ^{A b c} 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 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} August Klein: The personnel policy of the Hohenzollern monarchy in the Cologne government. A contribution to Prussian personnel policy on the Rhine.
5. ^ Civil status of the Lord Mayor's Office in Coblenz, marriage, October 15, 1834 Johann Baptist Birck, Royal State Procurator of Cologne, and Josephine Elisabetha Meurers in: Der Wanderer an Rheine and an der Mosel. A non-profit weekly paper for all cities , No. 18 of October 25, 1834, pp. 137–144, here p. 143. digital
6. ^ ^{A b} Death certificate Max Bernhard August Birck, Landesarchiv NRW, Dept. Rhineland, PA 3103, No. 562, Aachen I, 1903, 2016
7. ^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, births, 1836, document no. 724.
8. ^ State archive North Rhine-Westphalia, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, births, 1840, certificate no. 324.