Karl Lauckhard

Karl Lauckhard (born December 4, 1776 in Saarbrücken ; born Karl Ludwig Friedrich Lauckhard ; † after 1839 ) was an administrative officer, notary , local politician and mayor of old Saarbrücken (1814).

origin

His father was the government attorney Johann Friedrich Daniel Lauckhard, who was in the Nassau-Saarbrück service, and nothing has come down to us about his mother. On July 26, 1802, he married Dorothea Margaretha, daughter of the Sankt Johann blacksmith Jost Bach. Nothing is written about his descendants. After completing his civil service career in 1839, he moved away from Saarbrücken, after which his track is lost. It is not known where he spent his old age and when he died.

Public offices

Karl Lauckhard initially worked as an interpreter (French: interpréte ). His career as an administrative officer began when the feudal administrative structures of the last Prince Ludwig zu Nassau-Saarbrücken were replaced by the French municipal administration on the Saar . On July 26, 1804 he became the collector and secretary of the administrative commission of the Saarbrücker Bürgerhospital, which he held until March 14, 1807. From 1805 Lauckhard Schreiber (French: greffier ) was at the peace court of the canton Saarbrücken, this was followed by his appointment as a public notary in 1811. After Heinrich Böcking's resignation he was appointed mayor of Saarbrücken by the general government commissioner Karl Ruppenthal in April 1814 . May 1814 the inauguration followed. He held the office for only a few days until Sebastian Bruch was reinstated by the French authorities on July 9, 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 . On July 23, 1815, Lauckhard became a member of the newly established city council, together with Heinrich Böcking, a delegate of the pro-Prussian party at the peace negotiations in Paris . From July 25, 1815 to August 26, 1815 he was the commander of the newly formed civil guard in Saarbrücken. From 1815 he exercised the office of notary at the justice districts of Saarbrücken and Sankt Johann. His career in local politics ended on February 19, 1838 when he left the city council. The occasion was a falling out with Heinrich Böcking, which went back to their joint Paris delegation. On February 4, 1839, he resigned from the notary's office at his own request.

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. 513

Web links

• Karl LF Lauckhard on Saarland biographies