Erhard Hagen von Hagenfels

Erhard Hagen von Hagenfels

Erhard Christian Hagen , from 1837 Hagen von Hagenfels , (* July 17, 1786 in Bayreuth ; † October 28, 1868 there ) was the first legally qualified mayor of Bayreuth. The lawyer came from a long-established local family. In 1837 he was raised to the nobility for his services .

Hagen studied law and "cameral sciences" in Erlangen and Halle . From 1805 he was a member of the Baruthia Corps . 1811, a year after the sale of to Prussia belonging to the Principality of Bayreuth to the Kingdom of Bavaria , he was appointed -lawyer Appeal appointed and entered 1815 in a Bayreuth firm one.

In 1818 Bavaria passed a constitution . With the municipal edict, the cities received a kind of municipal self-government and, above a certain size, a “legally qualified mayor” who was in office over the councils .

In November 1818 Erhard Christian Hagen became mayor of Bayreuth after Heinrich Carl Rudolf Seggel, who was initially unanimously elected, had refused the office because of the low salary. Later Hagen also became a member of the Bavarian State Parliament . In 1827 he was a co-founder of the Historical Association for Upper Franconia and editor of the annual Archive for the History of Upper Franconia . On November 11, 1837 he was commissioned by King I. Ludwig Hagen Hagen rock ennobled .

In the course of the revolution of 1848/49 , Hagen was loyal to the king . After he had refused to sign a petition in which the king demanded freedom rights and reforms, he was forced to resign on March 13, 1848 during a meeting in the Bayreuth Sun Hall of 800 citizens. After his retirement, which he requested the following day, he received an annual pension of 1080  guilders .

In a government report on the events of March 1848 of May 18 of that year, Hagen is described as a “legally innocent man” who, however, did not possess the qualities “which were a necessary condition” for the mayor's office. He lacked caution, energy, agility, quick drive and diligence. The judgment of the historian Rainer Trübsbach is milder , according to which a fair appreciation of Hagen is achieved “neither by transfiguration nor by condemnation”. His achievements, merits and qualities are undisputed. During Hagen’s tenure, a. the establishment of the Stadtsparkasse and the Bürgerreuth restaurant on the Green Hill, which Richard Wagner later frequently visited . However, he was reluctant to found a trade association and only reluctantly gave in under pressure from the highest instructions.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Victims of changeable popular favor in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from 28./29. October 2017, p. 14.
2. ^ ^{A b c} Rainer Trübsbach: History of the City of Bayreuth 1194–1994 . Druckhaus Bayreuth, Bayreuth 1993, ISBN 3-922808-35-2 , p. 170 .
3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 37 , 42.
4. ↑ Rainer Trübsbach, op. Cit. , P. 154.
5. ↑ Rainer Trübsbach, op. Cit. , P. 162.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Rainer Trübsbach, op. Cit. , P. 168.
7. ^ Kurt Herterich: From Bayreuth Castle Tower to Festival Hill . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2003, ISBN 978-3-925361-47-0 , pp. 188 .

literature

• Karl Müssel : Bayreuth in eight centuries. History of the city. Bindlach 1993, ISBN 3-8112-0809-8

Web links

• Who is who in Bayreuth