Anton von Wehner

Anton von Wehner

Anton Ritter von Wehner (born November 16, 1850 in Schillingsfürst , † March 10, 1915 in Munich ) was a Bavarian administrative officer and politician. From March 1903 to February 1912 he served in the cabinet of Clemens von Podewils-Dürniz as Bavarian State Minister of the Interior for Church and School Affairs.

Life

Wehner attended high school in Münnerstadt . After graduating from high school in 1870, he began studying law and political science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and received a scholarship from the Maximilianeum Foundation . In 1871 he became a member of the Isaria Corps . During his studies, he already worked for the Munich City Administration, the City Court and the District Office. Having passed the state examination, he joined the government of Upper Bavaria as an accessist in 1877 . The following year he moved to the Ministry of Education , where he initially rose to the rank of State Councilor.

After the dismissal of Prime Minister Friedrich Krafft von Crailsheim , Wehner was appointed Minister of Education by Prince Regent Luitpold in the cabinet of Clemens von Podewils-Dürniz on March 1, 1903 . Under his aegis, the state school commission was established in 1905 as the highest level for primary school issues and in 1909 the ministerial department for higher education. On June 14, 1907, the upper secondary school, which was equivalent to the grammar school, was launched and on April 8, 1911 the school regulations for the higher girls' schools in Bavaria were issued. In 1908, however, he had denied that pedagogy as an isolated science should still produce creative, scientific work. By ordinance of November 20, 1910, the lyceums were transformed into philosophical-theological colleges. Wehner also had the parish order drawn up to reorganize the administration of church property.

Wehner's grave chapel in Munich's forest cemetery

When the center emerged as the strongest party in the state elections on February 5, 1912 , the entire Podewil cabinet resigned. Wehner retired and died three years later at the age of 64.

The Wehnerstraße in the district Pasing Munich is named after him.

Trivia

In the original text of the satire Der Münchner im Himmel by Ludwig Thoma , Anton von Wehner, as Bavarian Minister of Culture at the time, is the addressee of the “Divine Council”; but which he will wait in vain for. In modern arrangements it is generally replaced by the Bavarian State Government .

literature

• Egon Johannes Greipl (Ed.): 100 years of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. 1908-2008. 4 volumes, Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2008, volume 1: Bilanz, p. 345, ISBN 978-3-7917-2119-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 109 , 583
2. ^ Stefan Paulus: University of Würzburg and teacher training. In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 539-564; here: p. 548.