Bernhard Michael von Grandauer
Bernhard Michael Grandauer , from 1829 Ritter von Grandauer , (born December 18, 1776 in Würzburg , † November 23, 1838 in Munich ) was a Bavarian lawyer and government official .
Life
Grandauer was born as the son of middle-class parents Lorenz Grandauer (1742–1793), umbrella maker and his wife Maria, née. Hellmuth born. He attended the High School and the University of his hometown, as a funded from the Würzburg prince bishop, so-called hospital student of Julius Hospital and earned his Doctor iuris . Besides, he was active as a writer, worked in the "Upper German literary journal" of Lorenz Hübner with and the author of several historical and political writings.
After the bishopric of Würzburg was incorporated into the Electorate of Electoral Palatinate Bavaria (1803), Grandauer officiated as district judge in Homburg am Main . In 1806 the area fell to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg and the official moved in the same position to Marktheidenfeld , and in 1807 to Karlstadt . In that year he also married Magdalena Lommel (1783-1845), daughter of the Würzburg court chamber councilor Georg Lommel (1748-1827).
With the transfer of the territory to the Kingdom of Bavaria (1814) Grandauer entered the state service and finally met King Ludwig I in Bad Brückenau , who held him in great esteem. In 1827 he called him to Munich as a teacher. Bernhard Michael Grandauer soon received the office of royal cabinet secretary and became a member of the supreme church and school council of the kingdom, which, under the leadership of Eduard von Schenk , was supposed to reform the entire Bavarian education system. In this activity he worked out the new Bavarian school curriculum , as well as several state parliament approvals and legal texts. In December 1831 Grandauer was promoted to Real Councilor of State. Because of his church-friendly attitude he was valued by the king, but strongly opposed by other political circles and branded as " ultramontane ". Grandauer was a special patron of the religious orders and is considered to be one of the influential advisers to Ludwig I regarding his policy of founding monasteries. In addition, the official dealt with mathematics, astronomy, physics and chemistry. The obituary in the Allgemeine Zeitung in Munich emphasizes that Bernhard Michael von Grandauer possessed “a wide range of knowledge and a comprehensive education” , as well as a “firm, legal character” , which always allowed him to exercise his office above the political parties.
The New German Biography stated in 1964:
- “(Grandauer) knew that conservatism alone could never be the ruling state principle; so he called for loyalism to be supplemented by liberalism without ideological tendencies. So he wanted to unite the good old with the tried and tested new, that is, to further develop conservative Christian principles through liberal methods. "
He died of chronic liver disease in 1838 after three months of sick leave and was buried in the old south cemetery in Munich. The grave monument with the figure of Christ was created by the sculptor Joseph Otto Entres . In Munich, Grandauerstrasse is named after him.
With his wife, Grandauer had two sons and a daughter. The son Franz Grandauer (1822-1896) worked as a composer and director at the Munich court theater.
Awards
In 1829 Bernhard Michael Grandauer received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and was thereby raised to the personal nobility of a "Knight of". In 1838 the king awarded him the Commander's Cross of the Order of St. Michael . Because of the drafting of a customs and trade agreement with the Kingdom of Württemberg , its king awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown in 1829 .
literature
- Wilhelm Binder: Allgemeine Realencyclopädie , Manz Verlag, Regensburg, 1849, Volume 11, p. 682 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich August Schmidt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 17th year (1839), first part, Weimar 1841, p. 53 ( digitized version ).
- Leonhard Lenk: Grandaur, Johann Michael Bernhard Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , pp. 741-743 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Publication by Grandauer as the Electoral Palatinate-Bavarian district judge in Homburg am Main
- ^ Obituary in the supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung München, No. 330, of November 26, 1838
- ^ Ernst Förster: Munich: A manual for foreigners and natives , Munich 1858, page 93; Scan from the source
- ^ The Grandauerstraße in Munich wiki
- ↑ Bernhard Michael von Grandauer in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- ↑ Ludwig von Coulon: The orders of knights, marks of merit, as well as the orders of noble ladies in the Kingdom of Bavaria , Munich, 1838, pages 80 and 94 scans from the source
- ↑ Königlich-Württembergisches Hof- und Staats-Handbuch, 1831, p. 32
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grandauer, Bernhard Michael von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grandauer, Bernhard Michael; Grandauer, Bernhard Michael Ritter von; Grandaur, Johann Michael Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian government official and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1776 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1838 |
| Place of death | Munich |