Andreas Ludwig Leitgeb

Andreas Ludwig Leitgeb (* around 1683 in Klagenfurt ; † June 30, 1751 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer , civil servant and mayor of Vienna (1733 to 1736 and 1745 to 1751).

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Andreas Ludwig Leitgeb was born around 1683 in the city of Klagenfurt. Not until 1720 did Leitgeb appear in a public capacity as an assessor at the Vienna City Court . During this time he married his wife Maria Katharina, the daughter of his civil servant colleague Samuel von Seraio (* around 1695; † December 6, 1750). Among other things, the couple had their daughter Maria Theresa, who was married to Hofrat Johann Peter von Bolza . From 1724 to 1727 Leitgeb was a judge writer, then from 1728 a member of the Inner Council and between 1729 and 1732 city ​​judge .

In 1733 he succeeded Franz Daniel Edler von Bartuska as mayor of Vienna . Initially, he was in office until 1736 and, at the same time, he was also President of the Imperial Banco-Gefäll Administration from 1734 to 1736 . He was then replaced by Johann Adam von Zahlheim , who was Mayor of Vienna from 1737 to 1740 and President of the Banco-Gefäll administration from 1739 to 1741. After his tenure, Peter Joseph Kofler initially took over the mayor's office for the years 1741 to 1744, before he was replaced by Leitgeb. Leitgeb was in the meantime senior of the Inner Council (1737 to 1740), and under Kofler from 1741 to 1744 again city judge. During his second term as mayor of Vienna, Leitgeb died in his official apartment in the now defunct lower chamber office building at Am Hof 9 in Vienna's 1st district, Inner City . He was succeeded by Kofler, whom he had only replaced as mayor a few years earlier.

In Leitgeb's second term of office, Maria Theresa's administrative reforms had a negative impact on the city administration , such as greater subordination to the state authorities. Leitgeb died in poor circumstances, although he was in a high position, he did not even have a house of his own in Vienna and his estate as well as considerable negative numbers. After living temporarily at Hohen Markt and Stock-im-Eisen-Platz , in 1734 he moved into the official apartment in the lower chamber office building, which had become vacant due to the death of the former mayor Josef Hartmann . After Hartmann's death, it took two years for the apartment to be ready for occupancy after Anton Johann Ospel had completed his renovations to the armory . Leitgeb acquired a house with a garden in Dornbach , but had it entered in the land register in the name of his wife. Under Leitgeb, a stone statue of Johannes Nepomuk was erected on Hafnersteg above the Dornbach near Neuwaldegg in 1744 or 1748 .

Today the Leitgebgasse in the 5th district of Vienna Margareten reminds of Andreas Ludwig Leitgeb; The street was named in 1875.

literature

• Felix Czeike : Vienna and its mayors. Seven centuries of Viennese city history. Jugend und Volk, Vienna et al. 1974, ISBN 3-8113-6078-7 . P. 243 ff.
• Elisabeth Kleedorfer: The Viennese councilors at the time of Maria Theresa 1740–1780. Dissertation. University of Vienna. Vienna 1972, p. 304

Web links

• Andreas Ludwig Leitgeb in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna