Johann Georg Becht

Johann Georg Becht (born February 19, 1661 in Heilbronn ; † December 22, 1733 there ) was Mayor of Heilbronn from July 10, 1731 to 1733 .

Life

Becht came from a family who immigrated to Heilbronn in the middle of the 16th century. The Becht's coat of arms depicts a silver swan against a red background. Becht's great-grandfather Ambrosius Becht was mayor of Heilbronn. His two great-grandfathers on his mother's side, Philipp Orth and David Kugler , were also mayors of Heilbronn. Becht's father was Ulrich Friedrich Becht, who was also a member of the city council and most recently held the office of city school. Becht's mother was Maria Margaretha Orth.

Becht attended grammar school in Ansbach , but then returned to Heilbronn on his father's deathbed in 1677 and then studied law at the University of Erfurt and from 1679 at the University of Jena . From 1680 he was back in Heilbronn. In 1683 he came to Freiherr Philipp Jakob Nothaft von and zu Hohenburg and Hochdorf as a rent office clerk. In 1687 he came back to Heilbronn and was treasurer, secretary and consultant in the office of the knightly canton of Kraichgau under Ulrich von Gemmingen . On April 15, 1713, he belonged to the small, inner council ("von den burgern"), headed the municipal building department from 1714, the accounting office from 1717 and the caste master's office from 1719. In 1723 he became a hospital nurse , on January 2, 1727 tax master and in 1730 he also administered the parish care. In the spring of 1731 he became third mayor of the city after the approval of the retirement of the mayor Johann Heinrich Orth . At the same time he became Vogt of the imperial city village of Flein .

Johann Georg Becht arranged renovation work for the Kommerzienstraße project , a trade route from Strasbourg via Heilbronn , Schwäbisch Hall to Nuremberg , in order to revive the old Heilbronner Haller Straße . Nothing is known about significant events during his short term in office.

Becht's first marriage was to Eva Maria Schöck from Wimpfen and had six children with her, of which only one daughter and son Georg Adam (1684–1733) reached adulthood. In his second marriage, after the death of his first wife, he was married to Regina Margaretha Hermann from 1725, this second marriage remained childless. Becht died after a short, serious illness that caused a stroke and was buried in the cemetery on Weinsberger Strasse .

literature

• Wilhelm Steinhilber: Mayor of Heilbronn in the 18th century (V) . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 12th year, no. 2 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, February 12, 1966, ZDB -ID 128017-X .
• Bernd Klagholz: Heilbronn and its mayors in the period from the 16th to the 19th century (approval work), Tübingen 1980, p. 95.
• Cramer: Heilbronn families. Scientific supplement to the annual report of the grammar school (Königl. Karlsgymnasium Heilbronn) , Heilbronn 1903, p. 22 (on the biography).
• Christhard Schrenk , Hubert Weckbach , Susanne Schlösser: From Helibrunna to Heilbronn. A city history (=  publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 36 ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8062-1333-X (on the work on Haller Straße).