Eduard von Yrsch

Count Eduard von Yrsch, photo by Franz Hanfstaengl

Coat of arms of the Counts of Yrsch

Reichsgraf Johann Nepomuk Eduard von Yrsch (* July 7, 1797 in Munich ; † March 9, 1862 ibid) was a Bavarian nobleman, Reichsrat, theater director and high court official.

Life

He came from the family of the Counts of Yrsch and was the son of Count Karl Theodor von Yrsch auf Gimpern, court judge and court chamber councilor in Mannheim and Munich, as well as his wife Maria Anna von Capris, daughter of the Bavarian major general Andreas Anton von Capris (1716– 1776).

Eduard von Yrsch spent his childhood on the family estates in Baden (primarily at Obergimpern Castle ) and attended school in Strasbourg, Alsace . Finally he was appointed royal page in Munich and graduated from the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1814 . He then studied law at the University of Landshut until 1818 .

First he worked at the regional court in Munich and then switched to the government of Upper Bavaria as an assessor . Yrsch became chamberlain and court cavalier of Queen Karoline of Bavaria ; 1830 also her court marshal . He accompanied her on many trips. After the death of the Queen, in 1841, the Count took until 1844 the place of the court theater - directors . From 1847 he was the royal master of ceremonies and court marshal of King Ludwig I. Eduard von Yrsch held the same office with King Max II until 1856. He retired at his own request and the monarch appointed him lifelong Imperial Councilor of the Crown on December 29th of that year Bavaria . In 1844, Count von Yrsch took over the family entails commission Gut Freiham and was intensively involved in improving the local agriculture. He was Catholic and he was very religious and charitable.

In 1828 the nobleman received the Knight's Cross of the Saxon Order of Civil Merit , in 1831 the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , in 1832 the Commander's Cross of the Baden Order of the Zähringer Löwen and in 1840 the Grand Cross of the Russian Order of St. Stanislaus .

He died of brain typhus in 1862, after 12 days in sick bed, and was buried in the Freiham cemetery.

family

Count Eduard von Yrsch married Countess Maria von Kreith (1812–1894) in 1832. She was later a palace lady at the royal court.

The sons Carl Theodor Graf von Yrsch (1832–1899), Christian Graf von Yrsch (1844–1871) and Friedrich Graf von Yrsch (1837–1898) resulted from the marriage; also the daughter Adelheid (* 1835), who married the Rittmeister Otto Friedrich Gabriel von Magerl (1819-1865), son of the Bavarian lieutenant general Friedrich Freiherr von Magerl (1785-1875). Christian von Yrsch died in 1871 as an officer in the Franco-German War . Of the three sons only Friedrich Graf von Yrsch had offspring, namely a daughter and a son, who, however, died in childhood. With the death of Carl Theodor Graf von Yrsch (1899), this family line (so-called older line of the Counts of Yrsch) in the male line became extinct.

literature

• Journal of the Agricultural Association in Bavaria , annual volume 1862, page 254; Scan from the source (obituary)
• Nekrolog in the evening paper of the Neue Münchner Zeitung , No. 78. from April 1, 1862, pages 301 and 302 of the year

Web links

• Genealogical data page on Eduard von Yrsch
• Eduard von Yrsch in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leitschuh, Max: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 240.
2. ↑ Tagblatt für München , No. 185, of July 6, 1828 .
3. ↑ Ludwig von Coulon: The orders of knights, badges of honor, and the orders of noble ladies in the Kingdom of Bavaria , Munich, 1838, page 80; Scan from the source .
4. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtums Baden , Karlsruhe, 1834, page 57; Scan from the source .
5. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria No. 26, Munich, July 31, 1840.
6. ↑ Royal Bavarian aristocratic ladies' calendar to the year 1861 , pages 43 and 122; Excerpts from the source .
7. ↑ Genealogical page on Otto Friedrich Gabriel von Magerl ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
8. ↑ Website on Major General Friedrich von Magerl ( Memento from August 8, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
9. ↑ Biographies of the officers of the Bavarian Army who died in the war against France, Verlag Sigmund Soldan, Nuremberg 1871, pp. 202 a. 203; Digital scan .