Albrecht Ludwig von Berger

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Grave of Albrecht Ludwig von Bergers in the Gertrudenfriedhof in Oldenburg

Albrecht Ludwig von Berger (born November 5, 1768 in Oldenburg , † April 10, 1813 in Bremen ) was a German lawyer and a victim of French despotism .

origin

The Berger family was ennobled by Kaiser in 1717 . His paternal grandparents were the Danish personal physician Johann Samuel von Berger (1691–1757) and his second wife Magarethe Louise von Ramdor (1705–1790). His parents were the office director August Gottlieb von Berger (1730-1807) and his wife Albertine Agnes von Schilden (1745-1826).

Life

Berger was taught by private tutors and was Easter 1786 at the University of Göttingen go to there law to study. In 1788 he had to interrupt his studies because of an illness, but returned and graduated in autumn 1790. He returned to Oldenburg and initially became an auscultant at the Oldenburg regional court . In 1792 he came to Eutin , the seat of the Oldenburg principality of Lübeck , as a government assessor . Because of his parents, Berger had himself transferred back to Oldenburg as a regional court assessor with the title of Chancellery in 1797 . In 1808 he was appointed to the ducal Oldenburg chancellery and bailiff to the court of the Duchy of Oldenburg .

In addition, Berger was active in literature and published several articles in the Oldenburgische Zeitschrift and in the Irene magazine published by Gerhard Anton von Halem . Since 1799 he was a member of the Oldenburg Literary Society . He undertook extensive trips through Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland, which he described in two extensive travel books.

During the occupation of Oldenburg by the French Empire (→  Oldenburgische Franzosenzeit ) Berger stayed in Oldenburg, as his inherited fortune allowed him to forego a job after the French occupation of the duchy. Since Hamburg was occupied by Russian cavalry on March 18 in the course of the wars of liberation and there were increased uprisings against the Napoleonic occupiers, the French authorities in Oldenburg vacated their offices on March 19, 1813. Before that, they set up an administrative commission, in which von Berger and Christian Daniel von Finckh and the previous mayor of Oldenburg Johann Wiegand Christian Erdmann joined as assessors. This commission was supposed to carry out the administrative tasks in the interests of the occupiers and to ensure that the people remained calm. To this end, the commission issued a proclamation , which the French misunderstood as a call for resistance.

After the return of the French were by Berger and Finck for alleged patriotic statements before the court martial in Bremen under General Vandamme's presidency found sentenced to death and on April 10, 1813 shot . After returning to his country , the Grand Duke of Oldenburg had their remains buried near the ducal crypt in the Gertrudenfriedhof . A memorial was erected there ten years later . In 1814, the Duke also had the trial repeated and the two executed people declared innocent.

Commemoration

In memory of Berger and Finckh, the city of Oldenburg named two parallel streets running off Alexanderstraße after the two politicians.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albrecht Eckhardt, Heinrich Schmidt (ed.): History of the Oldenburger Land. Heinz Holzberg Publishing House. Oldenburg. 1987. p. 290.
  2. ^ Hermann Lübbing : Oldenburg . Heinz Holzberg Verlag, Oldenburg 1975, p. 55.
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Albrecht Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landvogt in Oldenburg, lawyer and victim of French despotism
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1813
Place of death Bremen