Reiner Joseph Esser

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Reiner Joseph Esser (born December 21, 1747 in Garzweiler ; † June 6, 1834 in Arnsberg ) was an administrative lawyer in the Electorate of Cologne , Hesse-Darmstadt and later in Prussia, and most recently a government councilor and conductor of the liquidation commission in Arnsberg.

Life

After attending grammar school in Bedburg and graduating from Montanergymnasium in Cologne , he studied law . He then became a lawyer and entered the state service in the Electorate of Cologne in 1771. First he worked in the office of the Electoral Cologne Lottery. A short time later he became secretary at the academy founded by Elector Maximilian Friedrich , from which the University of Bonn later emerged. In 1782 he became rendant and in 1783 rent master of the institution with the title of secret secretary. In 1784 he was appointed conference secretary of the newly established ministerial conference by Elector Maximilian Franz . Due to his education, Esser was also appointed court librarian. After the University of Bonn was officially founded in 1786, he became the university's syndic . Furthermore, in 1792 he became auditor of the camera accounts with the title of a real court chamber councilor.

After the French occupied the territory on the left bank of the Rhine in 1794, he went with the court chamber to Brilon in the Duchy of Westphalia . After the duchy fell to Hessen-Kassel in 1802, Esser entered the Hessian service. He worked at the Rentkammer and the Forstkolleg in Arnsberg. With the transition of the country to Prussia in 1816, Esser changed to Prussian services and was most recently government councilor and conductor of the liquidation commission in Arnsberg. In 1826 the king awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd class.

In Arnsberg he bought and lived in the Dücker farm . He had two sons who also entered the Prussian civil service. He was the great-grandfather on the grandmother's side of the "Tycoon of Cameroon" Max Esser .

literature

  • Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (Ed.): New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Vol. 12 - Ilmenau [et al.]: Voigt, 1834, pp. 449f. Google books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Cologne lawyer and businessman Max Esser, PDF
  2. ↑ Max Esser et al .: Cameroon's tycoon: Max Esser's expedition and its consequences , Berghahn Books 2001, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Esser, Reiner Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1747
PLACE OF BIRTH Garzweiler
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1834
Place of death Arnsberg