Johann Bernhard Orth

Johann Bernhard Orth (born August 31, 1677 in Heilbronn ; † October 10, 1734 ibid) was Mayor of Heilbronn in 1734 .

Life

Orth was not a scion of the important old Heilbronn patrician family Orth , which produced numerous councilors and several mayors, but came from a family of the same name who immigrated from Weinheim an der Bergstrasse with a Johann Philipp Ort in the early 17th century and also provided councilors. His father Philipp Dietrich Orth (1623-1691) was in the small council from 1673 and in 1680 tax master . The mother Anna Catharina geb. Fischer was the daughter of a councilor.

Johann Bernhard Orth attended grammar school in Heilbronn and then studied law at the University of Altdorf from 1697 . From 1703 he was in Metz for a long time . In 1706 he settled as a legal consultant in Heilbronn, where he was appointed to the city court in 1711. In 1714 he moved temporarily as a steward to the Barons of Neipperg to Schwaigern before he was elected in 1719 back in Heilbronn in the inner little advice. In 1730 he became tax owner , in 1733 mayor and at the beginning of 1734 third mayor. At the same time he became Vogt of the imperial city village of Flein . Orth held the office of mayor for only nine months before he died and was buried in the cemetery on Weinsberger Straße . In contrast to the several offices held for the duration of his term of office, a note in the death register states that he did not serve as mayor for longer than a day.

From 1711 he was married to Maria Elisabeth Becht (1686–1782), a daughter of the city doctor Georg Becht (1657–1702). The marriage had eight children, of which there are only records of two sons: Johann Friedrich (1712–1768) also became a lawyer, Wilhelm Friedrich (* 1716) became Chancellor of Counts Fugger and in 1758 was raised to imperial nobility.

Johann Bernhard Orth was soon forgotten after his death. Neither Karl Friedrich Jaeger (1828) nor Friedrich Dürr (1895) mention him in their city chronicles. Only recent research has rediscovered it. However, his personal file was burned in the air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944.

literature

• Moriz von Rauch: The Heilbronn merchant and councilor family Orth. In: Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1925, here p. 61.
• Wilhelm Steinhilber: The Heilbronn mayors of the 18th century, 10th mayor Johann Bernhard Orth (1677–1734) . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 12th year, no. 3 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, March 12, 1966, ZDB -ID 128017-X .