Johann Sebastian Bruch

Sebastian Bruch (born December 21, 1759 in St. Johann (Saar) ; † December 26, 1828 there ; born as Johann Sebastian Bruch ) was a businessman, local politician , judge, mayor of Worms (1798–1800) and old Saarbrücken (1804 -1814).

Life

He came from an old Saarbrücken merchant family. His father was the brewer and innkeeper Johann Daniel Bruch, who founded the parent company of the Bruch brewery in 1702 , which until 1850 was located in the “Zum Stiefel” restaurant on St. Johanner Markt. Nothing is known of his mother. After moving to Worms, he acquired citizenship there on August 30, 1785 and married Maria Catharina on February 26, 1786, daughter of Georg Heinrich Münzer, citizen and sworn surgeon of his native Sankt Johann. He initially worked as a merchant and joined the merchant guild .

Public offices

In the revolutionary year of 1789, Bruch became a member of the Common Council of the (still) Free Imperial City of Worms. The troops of the French Revolutionary Army, which was already advancing , subsequently gained control of the Upper Rhine. General Adam-Philippe de Custine conquered the Hochstifte Speyer and Worms with the Vosges Army in 1792 and brought them under French administration. In the same year, Bruch's appointment as a member of the municipal administration by the people's representatives followed, his area of ​​responsibility lay in the financial administration and included the control of the foundations as well as the offices of the executive commissioner and the municipality collector. Until 1814, Worms was to belong to the First French Republic . In the course of the First Coalition War , however, the French had to withdraw to the left bank of the Rhine in the spring of 1793, after which Bruch was initially relieved of his offices. Only after the Peace of Campo Formio was the administrative district of Kreuznach annexed by France on November 4, 1797, together with all areas on the left bank of the Rhine , confirmed under international law with effect from March 9, 1801 in the Treaty of Lunéville . On January 26, 1798, Bruch received his appointment as President of the municipal administration in Worms, and on March 13, 1798, this was confirmed by the government commissioner François Joseph Rudler .

Subsequently returned fracture in his hometown and became there on November 6, 1804 Mayor ( Maire appointed) of Saarbrücken. When the Prussians regained the upper hand, he was dismissed from the office of mayor on March 17, 1814 by the governor general of the Middle Rhine, Justus Gruner . However, Bruch carried on the official business as a registrar until April 9, 1814. On July 9, 1814, Bruch was reinstated as mayor by the French, but this time he resigned himself from office in October 1814. Bruch worked as a justice of the peace for the canton of St. Johann from the end of 1814. After the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna up to June 9, 1815, the influence of France was again reduced to the borders of 1790, Saarbrücken finally fell to Prussia. Bruch was appointed to the city council on July 23, 1815, and in 1823 he became an alderman of the Prussian mayor of Saarbrücken for the city of Sankt Johann. Since 1816 Bruch worked as a judge at the Saarbrücken district court .

See also

Gustav Bruch (1822-1899), who later became an honorary citizen of Saarbrücken, came from the same family. Gustav-Bruch-Straße , located in the Sankt Johann district, is a reminder of their work.

literature

• Hanns Klein: short biographies of the mayors of Saarbrücken ; in: Journal for the history of the Saar region, 19th century, Historical Association for the Saar region , Saarbrücken 1971, p. 512-513

Web links

• Johann Sebastian Bruch on Saarland biographies