Carl von Ulm zu Erbach
Ferdinand Carl von Ulm zu Erbach (born November 30, 1725 in Erbach (Danube) ; † March 21, 1781 ibid) was President of the Upper Austrian government in Freiburg from 1769.
Early years
The Ulm had from 1717 to 1743 as a bailiff of the Markgrafschaft Burgau based in Gunzburg is one of the pillars of the Habsburg administration. Carl von Ulm's parents were Franz Eucherius Freiherr von Ulm zu Erbach and Maria Mauritia von Muggenthal. His parents determined Carl for the clergy and sent him to study in Dillingen . After the death of his mother in 1730 and his father in 1743, the Augsburg cathedral capitular and provost Gerhard Wilhelm Freiherr von Dollberg became his guardian. Carl broke off his studies and embarked on the cavalier tour that was common with the nobles at the time . In 1748 he successfully applied for a canonical in Eichstätt . However, he did not take up this position, but traveled to Vienna in 1749 , where he married Countess of Starhemberg (born January 21, 1726) in the presence of the imperial couple Maria Theresia. On September 23, 1749, Maria Theresia appointed Carl as imperial chamberlain. Since he was only on the Supernumerari Representation Council on February 10, 1753 , i. H. When he was appointed unpaid councilor for the newly created government of Upper Austria in Konstanz , he was allowed to pursue his official business at his castle in Erbach. When the government moved to Freiburg in 1759, he initially asked Maria Theresa to be put out of action, then after several petitions he was finally given the paid position of Vogt von Burgau in 1763.
Activity as the regional president of Upper Austria
After he was sworn in as District President of Front Austria on January 27, 1769, von Ulm initially tried to relocate the government to Günzburg because of its proximity to Erbach, arguing that of the 100,000 to 200,000 florins consumed by the officials in Freiburg, at least two thirds flow into Alsace and France. Von Ulm arrived in Freiburg on August 18, 1769. As early as the following year he had to deal with a delicate political task when Marie Antoinette was on her bridal procession to Paris between May 4 and 6, 1770 in Freiburg and had to be duly received and entertained here. When Marie Antoinette left, the city of Freiburg and the Upper Austrian government had spent the gigantic sum of 200,000 thalers for the festivities in honor of the Archduchess. The Empress publicly reprimanded the spendthrift Carl von Ulm, who could not get along with either public or private money, which he could not tell apart. He faced bankruptcy several times. It was his upscale lifestyle, but also the expenses for the education of his 14 children that weighed on Ulm's budget. Soon after taking office, he took out a loan from the St. Märgen Monastery . On May 11, 1772, the Empress of Ulm approved the lords of Erbach, Werrenwag, Kallenberg and Boldringen in the fiefdoms of Swabian Austria to raise a capital of 40,000 guilders . On May 17, 1774 , he confessed to having borrowed the sum of 14,000 guilders from the abbot of the Muri monastery , Bonaventura Bucher , on which he had to pay interest of 4 percent annually .
After two of his councilors, Hermann von Greiffenegg and Thaddäus Schmid von Brandenstein, accused him of poor administration in 1772, von Ulm justified himself so brilliantly in Vienna that the Empress awarded him the Commander's Cross of the Order of St. Stephen on June 15, 1772 . During this stay in the capital, von Ulm experienced Maria Theresa's great personal interest in reforming the primary school system. So he reserved the chairmanship of the imperial school commission and hurried to promote the establishment of teacher training institutes. One of these so-called normal schools as a forerunner of the pedagogical universities was opened in Freiburg in 1773. In the same year Pope Clement XIV repealed the Jesuit order . This meant the closure of the Freiburg Jesuit College and the transition of the order's buildings to the University of Freiburg . Only the Jesuit castle in Merzhausen was sold to the barons of Bollweil for 66,000 florins .
On July 19, 1777, Emperor Joseph II visited the oldest patrimony of the ore house and was not impressed. He wrote to his mother: “The city is neither beautiful nor glamorous; it resembles a large market town ... Twenty government councilors and their subordinates cost 140,000 guilders in a country that brings in a total of only 300,000 guilders. But everyone does something, they investigate, invent, ask and write, and annoy all subjects. A president (Carl von Ulm) who doesn't have his people under control, doesn't get by with his money and who uses opaque means to cover up his expenses, makes bad blood. And the university is not better either, does not seem to be worth what it costs ... ”On this accusation, von Ulm wrote about himself: If he“ ever wanted to increase the service and the position and maintain order ”, he himself had to“ add the direction of all occurring businesses undertake the whole super-revision of all expeditions, which annually add up to 25,000 ”. Despite or because of this fragmentation, he was unable to remedy the organizational grievances in the foreland.
When Carl von Ulm was ailing in 1780, his time was drawing to a close. On his epitaph in the church of Erbach you can read: Dedicated entirely to the service of the state and its ruler. He died in Freiburg, consumed by zeal for both.
literature
- Alfred Graf von Kageneck : The end of the front Austrian rule in Breisgau . Verlag Rombach, Freiburg 1981, ISBN 3-7930-0365-5
- Friedrich Metz (Hrsg.): Vorderösterreich, a historical regional studies . Publisher Rombach, Freiburg 1967
- Franz Quarthal: The four regional presidents of Upper Austria in the second half of the 18th century, in Habsburg and the Upper Rhine . Waldkircher Verlagsgesellschaft, Waldkirch 2002, ISBN 3-87885-344-0
Web links
- Regional information system for Baden-Württemberg (LeoBW): Ulm Ferdinand Carl; von - Brief biographical information
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erbach Castle
- ↑ Geneall
- ↑ in Quarthal, p. 143
- ↑ in Quarthal, p. 136
- ↑ the later vice-president of the highest judicial office in Vienna, Ferdinand von Ulm was one of his sons. Constantin von Wurzbach : Ulm, Ferdinand Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 49. Part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1884, p. 4 ( digital copy ).
- ^ Muri-Gries Abbey Archives
- ↑ in Quarthal, p. 146
- ↑ von Kageneck, p. 36
- ↑ von Kageneck, p. 42
- ^ Alfred Ritter von Arneth: Maria Theresia and Joseph II, your correspondence . Printed and published by Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1867
- ↑ in Quarthal, p. 151
- ↑ von Kageneck, p. 50
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Anton Thaddäus of Sumerau | District President of Front Austria 1769–1781 |
Johann Adam von Posch |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ulm zu Erbach, Carl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ulm zu Erbach, Ferdinand Carl Freiherr von (full name); Ulm, Ferdinand Carl von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1725 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erbach (Danube) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1781 |
| Place of death | Erbach (Danube) |