Peter Weckbecker

Peter Weckbecker (also Wekbeker ; born August 24, 1807 in Münstermaifeld ; † November 29, 1875 in Düsseldorf ) was a German lawyer , judge and member of parliament . His last position was from 1850 until his retirement in 1861 as a district judge in Düsseldorf.

Life

Peter Weckbecker was the oldest son among 20 children. His father Franz Georg Severus Weckbecker , who was also called the Moselle King in the French times in the Moselle-Eifel region , was a merchant and owner of a manor. The father got his nickname because of the wealth he had gained through buying and selling - he had bought and sold former church property on a large scale that had been expropriated by the French state in the course of secularization . His mother was his father's first wife, Ursula Sophie Eggner († January 24, 1822 in Münstermaifeld ). She was the only daughter of the town council of Zell. Weckbecker had a lifelong friendship with the politicians August Reichensperger and Peter Reichensperger , who became his brother-in-law.

After attending the Pestalozzi Institute in Wiesbaden , he studied philosophy, law and camera studies in Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin from 1825 to 1829 . His legal career began in 1829, and from 1833–1836 he was an ausculator . Subsequently he was trainee lawyer from 1836–1840 and assessor in Koblenz, Trier and Aachen from 1842–1849 . In the rank of district judge he worked in Cologne from 1849 to 1851 and in Düsseldorf from 1851 to 1861 . In addition, he was also politically active, for example he was a member of the Frankfurt preliminary parliament in 1848/1849 . In the May elections to the German National Assembly , he beat August Reichensperger in the runoff election in Kaisersesch as deputy member of constituency 10 (Cochem-Mayen) . In January 1849, he moved up to the Paulskirche in Frankfurt for Justizrat J. Werner .

On May 14, 1850, he married Elisabeth Constance Zurhelle. After 1861 he retired in Rome and Düsseldorf.

His daughter Johanna later inherited the Rimburg Castle . How the castle originally came into the hands of a Mr. Weckbecker in 1879 and what role Johanna Weckbecker plays there or how this castle owner feels about Peter Weckbecker has yet to be found out. In the end of Peter Weckbecker's diary it says: "His daughter Johanna, who still knew my mother well, inherited the Rimburg Castle near Aachen. This castle with its wonderful art treasures came into the hands of the von Brauchitsch family through a somewhat strange adoption . "

literature

• Bernhard Koll: Münstermaifeld. The city on the mountain. Görres, Koblenz 2003, ISBN 3-935690-19-3 .
• Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Weckbecker, Peter , In: “Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District” , Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 378.

Web links

• Entry on Peter Weckbecker in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database