Wolter Josef Bürgers

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Josef Aloys Wolter Apollinaris Bürgers (born on March 15, 1814 in Cologne ; died on December 26, 1892 there ) was a Prussian district deputy, landowner, councilor and district administrator in the Mülheim am Rhein district .

Life

The Catholic Wolter Josef Bürgers was the son of the Cologne tobacco dealer, banker and landowner Johann Arnold Victor Bürgers and his wife Maria Agnes Bürgers, née Haan. On August 20, 1840, he married Ludovica Henrica Anna Theresia Johanna called Luise von Kleindorf (born on February 14, 1821 in Mantua ; died on July 16, 1902 in Cologne), a daughter of Nicolaus Edler von Kleindorf, 1840 major in the KK Austrian garrison corps in Lemberg and Ludovica von Kleindorf, née Foveaux, who died in Mainz before 1840.

Wolter Josef Bürgers followed his father in business and, like him, ran a raw tobacco business and a tobacco factory. In the 1870s he expanded his commercial activities to include a gold molding and glue factory as well as the production of cologne . He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce in his hometown since March 19, 1850, initially as a deputy and finally as a full member from April 9, 1856. When Gustav von Mevissen resigned as President of the Chamber of Commerce after only four years in 1860, the members of the Chamber elected Bürgers as his successor, but he refused to accept the election that had fallen on him. Instead, Wilhelm Arnold Nierstas became his successor. In the subsequent election in 1865, Bürgers again received a majority with 12 votes to 9 for Nierstras, but again rejected it. During the second ballot, Bürgers received 24 of the 25 votes cast and now agreed to accept the election. In the following years, the results were mostly just as clear in favor of Bürger. During the meeting on March 23, 1869, chamber member Franz Heuser thanked him “for the impartial and conscientious management of the Presidium”. A praise of this kind had not previously been recorded in the protocol. Bürgers was evidently very popular with his colleagues. He remained president until 1875, and in 1878 he resigned from the Chamber of Commerce.

As a district deputy and landowner at Haus Herl , Bürgers provided, after the appointment of Maximilian von Nesselrode-Ehreshoven as chief steward of the Queen of Prussia on January 22, 1866, in the periods from March 1 to May 28, 1866 and from March 1867 to April 1868 the business of the Mülheim district administrator by way of interim administration. In 1868, the Mülheim district council presented citizens in the first place as candidates for taking over the district administration office. However, after careful consideration, he announced that his extensive business activities did not allow "to be able to devote myself to the beautiful sphere of activity ...".

At the communal level, Bürgers was the landowner of the Herl house from 1856 until his death in 1892, and was the local councilor of the municipality or mayor's office of Merheim .

The temporary Cologne police chief (1868–1875) Friedrich Leopold Devens was a son-in-law of Bürgers, Ignatz Bürgers one of his siblings, and Felix Bürgers and Robert Bürgers grandson through their father Victor Ignatz Bürgers.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State archive North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland civil status archive, civil status register, Cologne registry office, deaths, 1892, document 5151.
  2. ^ A b Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 310 note 157 .
  3. ^ A b Hermann Kellenbenz , Klara van Eyll : The history of entrepreneurial self-administration in Cologne 1797–1914 , Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln, Cologne 1972, p. 100.
  4. ^ Herbert M. Schleicher: 80,000 death notes from Rhenish collections. (= Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, New Series No. 37), Volume I, Cologne 1987, without ISBN, p. 401.
  5. ^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, marriages, 1840, document 438.
  6. ↑ Hermann Kellenbenz, Klara van Eyll: The history of entrepreneurial self-administration in Cologne 1797-1914 , Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln, Cologne 1972, p. 234.
  7. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 191 .
  8. ↑ Thomas Deres (arr.): The Cologne Council. Biographical Lexicon. Volume I: 1794-1919. (= Communications from the Cologne city archive, issue 92) Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-928907-09-3 , p. 186.
personal data
SURNAME Citizen, Wolter Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bürgers, Josef Aloys Wolter Apollinaris (full name); Bürgers, Wolter Joseph (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district deputy, landowner, councilor and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1892
Place of death Cologne