Ludwig von Bürkel (administrative lawyer)

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Ludwig von Bürkel (born May 8, 1841 in Munich ; † July 9, 1903 there ) was a German lawyer and court secretary to King Ludwig II of Bavaria .

Life

Ludwig Bürkel was born as the second son of the landscape and genre painter Heinrich Bürkel and his wife Johanna von Hofstetten. His father originally came from the Palatinate town of Pirmasens and moved to Munich in 1822 to become a painter. By the time Ludwig was born, he had already achieved some success and a respectable level of prosperity. Ludwig's two brothers both died young. The gifted but sickly older brother Heinrich died as a law professor in Gießen in 1876 , while the younger brother Karl died in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 . The sister Johanna was married to a Bavarian officer named Edmund Rhomberg.

From 1859 to 1863 Ludwig Bürkel completed a law degree in Munich. In 1860 he was reciprocated in the Corps Franconia Munich . He then worked as an assessor in Nuremberg in 1872 and as a police assessor in Munich in 1874, before being appointed court secretary to King Ludwig in 1877. In this position he was responsible for court administration and theater matters as well as for the king's building projects. In particular, he was responsible for financing the immense costs involved in building castles such as Herrenchiemsee or Neuschwanstein . In addition, he worked as a patron of Richard Wagner and, as the ambassador of the Bavarian king, accompanied his funeral procession from Venice to Bayreuth from the Kufstein station in February 1883 .

In January 1884 Bürkel resigned from his position as court secretary. Two years later he was questioned on the occasion of the psychiatric assessment of the king and stated that the king had amazed him again and again with the precision of his thought processes and that he could only behave autocratically and despotic with regard to his building projects. After the death of the king, Bürkel worked again as court secretary until 1893.

Bürkel was given hereditary nobility by his employer Ludwig II of Bavaria. He was married to Maria Rosipal and they had four children together; the eldest son Carl was a surgeon in Nuremberg, the second son Ludwig an art historian and the third son Heinz an archaeologist; he died in the First World War in 1916 . They also had the daughter Johanna (born April 17, 1874 in Nuremberg ; † July 6, 1964 in Hausham ), who was married to Eduard Eduard Theodor von Bomhard (born June 1, 1868 in Bamberg ; † May 1, 1900 in Munich) and their daughter Maria Laura Johanna Theodolinde von Bomhard (born May 4, 1898 in Munich; † November 1, 2002 ibid) was married to Karl Romeis .

After his death in 1903, Ludwig von Bürkel was buried in his father's grave in the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich, where his siblings and two of his children are also buried.

literature

  • Walter Schärl: The composition of the Bavarian civil service from 1806 to 1918 (= Munich historical studies, Bavarian history department, volume 1). Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, p. 85.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heidi Caroline Ebertshäuser: Heinrich Bürkel - a painter from Pirmasens. Bavaria Antiqua, Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munich, 1986, pp. 42–45.
  2. ↑ Biographical Lexicon of the Empire of Austria . 1874, vol. 26 (digitized version).
  3. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 172/258.
  4. ↑ a b Heinz Häfner : A king is eliminated, Ludwig II of Bavaria. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56888-6 .
  5. ↑ http://www.infranken.de/ueberregional/infrankenblog/wagners-tod-in-venedig-iv;art61321,393060 , accessed on November 15, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Bürkel, Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and court secretary
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1903
Place of death Munich