Johann Baptist Grach

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Johann Baptist Grach (born March 21, 1793 in Trier , † January 5, 1851 in Zeltingen ) was a German wine wholesaler, landlord and member of parliament .

origin

Johann Baptist Grach was the son of the wealthy winery owner and long-time Trier city councilor Emmerich Grach and his wife Maria Anna, née. Wilt.

Life

After completing his school education, Grach studied commercial science at the University of Bordeaux . After completing his studies, he took over a winery in Kues that his father had acquired in 1806, as well as the Freiherr von Schorlemer winery belonging to his father-in-law Karl Everad Ellinckhuysen . Later he bought the Kreutnerhof in Zeltingen and in 1839 he was a co-founder of the Mosel Steamship Company.

politics

Grach took up his first political activity from 1843 to 1845 as a liberal opposition member in the Rhenish provincial parliament for the constituency of Trier. In the years 1847 and 1848 he was a member of the United First and Second Prussian Landtag in Berlin for the Bernkastel district . On March 11, 1848, Grach was one of 29 liberals who signed the so-called “Bonn Address” to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , Which advocated both national unity and internal reforms. In April 1848 he became chairman of the constituency committee in Bernkastel. In the May elections in 1848 he was elected as a "man with great fortune" and an expert on Moselle wine as the first democratic member of the Zell district in the Prussian National Assembly. When he submitted an application in Berlin to limit the number of Catholic holidays to two holidays, Ascension Day and Christmas , and to move the other holidays to the following Sunday , this caused some irritation in Zell. After Trier's lawyer Heinrich Mittweg resigned from the May elections in 1848 as deputy member of the Prussian House of Representatives, Grach also cleared the way for the younger, elected Zeller Franz Friedrich Müller , who took over his mandate in Berlin.

family

Johann Baptist Graach had been with Catharina Josephine, geb. Ellinckhuysen (1804–1882) married. Catharina was a daughter of the wine merchant, landowner and Rhenish deputy Karl Everad Ellinckhuysen (1763-1837) from Zeltingen.

siblings

  • Johann Georg Grach (1784–1868) was married to Maria Catharina Mohr (1788–1834).
  • Anna Johanna Grach (1784–1856) was married to the publisher and Trier city councilor Johann Jakob Lintz (1776–1848).
  • Johann Michael Grach (1785–1856) had been with Rosa Franziska Viktoria, born in 1819. Basement married.
  • Anna Katharina Grach (1789–1826) was married to Franz Anton Weißebach (1778–1857).

See also : Grach (winery owner)

literature

  • Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Grach, Johann Baptist , In: “Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District” , Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 130.
  • Heinz Monz (Ed.): Grach, Johann Baptist , In: "Trier Biographical Lexicon" , WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , p. 140.
  • Dr. H.-Günther Böse: The first democratic elections in the Zell district 1848/49 In: Heimatjahrbuch Cochem-Zell , 1995 pp. 239–248.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landowner Graach. Zeltingen, Prussia's first Reichstag: A compilation of the corporate laws ..., Part One, Berlin 1847 in the Google book search
  2. ↑ Landowner Graach. Zeltingen, address calendar for the members of the United State Parliament 1847 in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Grach, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wine wholesaler and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1851
Place of death Zeltingen-Rachtig