Anton Ulrich von Holzhausen

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Anton Ulrich Carl von Holzhausen (born June 30, 1754 in Münster am Stein ; † August 30, 1832 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a councilor and mayor of the city of Frankfurt am Main.

life and work

Anton Ulrich von Holzhausen was the son of Hieronymus Georg von Holzhausen (1726–1755) and Caroline geb. Geispitzheim (1727-1768). He studied law in Göttingen and then initially served the Nassau-Usingen family as a government assessor and councilor. In 1778 he was appointed councilor to Frankfurt am Main, where he became the junior mayor's assessor . In 1785 he was appointed lay judge and deputy of the treasury , the Frankfurt tax authority.

In July 1796 French revolutionary troops under General Jean-Baptiste Kléber besieged Frankfurt. Since the city was held by Austrian troops, the French army deployed artillery on the hills north of the city, between Eschenheimer Tor and Allerheiligentor . In order to force the Austrian commander, Count Wartensleben, to surrender, Kléber had the city bombarded several times from July 12 to July 14. In particular, the northern part of Frankfurter Judengasse and the district around the Konstablerwache were hit and caught fire. Numerous houses were completely destroyed. The Austrian occupiers then had to surrender, and the French troops occupied the city and gave it a contribution of six million francs . As an additional reprisal , respected citizens, including Holzhausen, were taken hostage and brought to Paris until the contribution was killed.

In 1800 he was elected Senior Mayor of the Free Imperial City for the first time , later again for 1806. He was thus the last Senior Mayor of the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, which lost its imperial immediacy with the end of the Holy Roman Empire and the newly founded Principality of Aschaffenburg of the Prince Primate Carl Theodor von Dalberg was slammed. He appointed Holzhausen as lay judge of the new appellate court and later as Grand Ducal Chamberlain.

With the end of the short-lived Grand Duchy of Frankfurt and the restoration of the Free City of Frankfurt , Holzhausen entered the Senate of the Free City as a lay judge , but later did not assume any higher office.

He owned a large collection of art and paintings, which he auctioned in 1820. In 1815 he became a knight of the Hohenzollern House Order of St. Johannis from the Jerusalem Hospital .

Holzhausen died on August 30, 1832 in Frankfurt and was buried in the family crypt in the main cemetery.

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SURNAME Holzhausen, Anton Ulrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holzhausen, Anton Ulrich Carl von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor and Mayor in Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster am Stein
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1832
Place of death Frankfurt am Main