Maximilian Alexander Joseph von Kurtzrock

Baron Maximilian Alexander Joseph von Kurtzrock (born January 15, 1748 in Hamburg , † April 6, 1807 in Lübeck ) was a German canon and provost.

Life

Maximilian Alexander Joseph Freiherr von Kurtzrock comes from the Catholic Thuringian noble family von Kurtzrock and was a younger son of Theobald Joseph von Kurtzrock (1702–1770), Reichshofrat, imperial resident of the Lower Saxon Reichskreis and Reichspostmeister in Hamburg and Herr auf Wellingsbüttel , and his wife Bernardina, born from Schorlemer to Herringhausen .

On January 15, 1765 he received a prebend at Lübeck Cathedral , which Ferdinand Joseph Freiherr von Weichs had previously waived. Thus he became one of four Catholic canons in the otherwise Lutheran Lübeck cathedral chapter . From 1774 he resided in Lübeck.

1779 Prince Bishop appointed him Friedrich August to Castle captain of Eutin castle . Like his uncle Eugenius Alexander Peter von Kurtzrock before, he was provost of the monastery of the Holy Cross in Hildesheim . He was also a royal Prussian chamberlain .

In 1790 he appears as the owner of Almstedt .

In the Lübeck Cathedral Chapter he held the office of Structuarius and was thus responsible for the maintenance of the Chapter's properties. From 1791 there was a legal dispute with the chapter that lasted several years, which was initially ignited by the decision of the chapter to convert the previous dean's chapel in the cathedral into a chapel for the entire chapter. After Kurtzrock had yielded to this matter in 1792, his objections to the introduction of the general or regional comparison in the prince-bishopric in 1793 led again to proceedings against him, which resulted in a heavy fine and the suspension of the seat on July 22, 1796 Voice ended in the chapter for five years. Kurtzrockk appealed to the prince-bishop and imperial authorities and obtained legal opinions from the law faculties of the universities of Helmstedt and Rostock. The chapter turned to the Law Faculty of the University of Erlangen with a request for an arbitration award, which both parties accepted as the final judgment on April 26, 1799. In it, Kutzrock was sentenced to a slightly lesser fine and the threat of suspension and assumption of costs.

When the cathedral chapter was secularized in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803, like all canonicals existing at the time of secularization , it retained the associated privileges and income until the end of his life.

He died of flapping river .

literature

• Everhard Illigens : History of the Lübeck Church from 1530 to 1896, that is the history of the former Catholic diocese and the current Catholic community as well as the Catholic bishops, canons and pastors of Lübeck from 1530 to 1896. Paderborn 1896 ( digitized copy of the ULB Münster ), P. 65
• Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the canons. In: Ders .: Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, principality and part of the country 1160-1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 415 No. 387
• Wolfgang Prange : Suspension and Privation. Punishment from canons. In: Ders .: Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, principality and part of the country 1160-1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , pp. 585–629, esp. 616–622