Felix von Brewer-Fürth

Felix Freiherr Brewer von Fürth

Felix Friedrich Freiherr von Brewer, called von Fürth , also Brever , short Freiherr von Fürth , (born October 8, 1847 in Czernowitz ; † February 1, 1918 ibid) was an Austrian officer, then a politician and mayor of Czernowitz .

origin

Karl Felix came from the Austrian branch of Aachen patrician family , which in Aachen several aldermen and the mayor Aachener Reich Johann Wilhelm von Furth and Franz von Furth presented. The latter was raised to the status of imperial baron in 1773 under the title " Freiherr von Brewer called von Fürth " .

The Imperial Lieutenant Colonel (born September 8, 1812) Karl Felix - great grandson of the above Wilhelm member of the imperial Schoepp chair and reigning mayor of Aachen (1648-1698) - and son of the Grand Duke of Hesse Chamberlain Damian Carl (* September 27, 1769; † 21 December 1832) was Felix's father, who had been married to Josephine Edlen von Körber (born November 26, 1818 in Czernowitz) from Bucovina since November 20, 1843 .

Baron von Fürth, imperial birthday 1910

biography

Baron von Fürth, flower celebration 1911

After completing his Abitur at the State High School in Chernivtsi, he graduated from the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt and served first as a lieutenant , then as a first lieutenant in the 24th Duke of Parma Infantry Regiment No. 24 in Budapest . He resigned from military service and is said to have studied law afterwards, followed by other German studies and philosophy in Czernowitz and Vienna . Then he devoted himself to politics within the German Liberal Party, later the German Christian (National) Party.

Very wealthy, Brewer was the main owner of the newspaper "Bukowinaer Nachrichten" for many years, and initially represented there purely journalistically, then as an active politician, German politics, first of the liberal direction. The newspaper then became the German national party newspaper after its owner Freiherr von Fürth changed in 1897 from the Liberals to the newly founded "Association of Christian Germans" around Arthur Skedl.

Since 1895 he was a member of the city council of Chernivtsi and was second deputy mayor under Anton Kochanowski von Stawczan . On January 13, 1899, a committee for the establishment of the German House was founded. Professor Felix Baron Fürth was appointed chairman of the committee, and Dr. Rudolf Wolf. The committee began its work and donations began to pour in. Many residents of the country and the capital contributed their share. In February 1899 the “Bukowiner Bote” wrote: “The interest in the matter of the German House is even greater and more general. This house should be a house of the societies (associations), large and with a large hall that other associations can lease for various measures. "After the capacities were no longer sufficient, a new building was decided after purchasing a plot of land on Herrengasse, which was inaugurated on June 5, 1910. On February 4, 1911, the German academic associations organized a great ball in the ballroom of the German House. Almost the entire secular audience of Chernivtsi was present at the top with the state president of Bukowina, Oktavian Regner von Bleyleben , the governor Georg Wassilko von Serecki and Brewer as mayor.

Before he was led by State President Dr. Oktavian Ritter von Bleyleben was sworn in as mayor of Czernowitz (according to the highest confirmation of July 4th of that year), he had already been the first vice mayor under Eduard Reiss . During his tenure in 1909, the Chernivtsi Central Station went into operation.

After his re-election in 1912, he looked quite old and sick. The new majority in the city council led the city and its residents into a serious economic crisis through business speculation. Although the baron had even stepped in with his private fortune, he could not improve the situation. After he realized whether his kindness had been deceived and abused, he nevertheless took over responsibility and resigned on October 26, 1913. Salo von Weisselberger was elected as his successor on November 4, 1913.

The baron was an officer, then Commander of the Franz Joseph Order . He made an exemplary effort to maintain national and religious peace in the city. Among other things, he showed his connection to Chernivtsi and its citizens by not leaving the city due to all three Russian invasions during the First World War .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Barons von Brewer-Fürth 1773

1773: Squared shield. 1 and 4 diagonally quartered, above and below in silver three red posts, and on the right and left in gold a forward-looking, black lion head (Fürth). 2 and 3 a small, golden shield in blue, divided transversely by a black bar, which is accompanied at the top by two side by side and at the bottom by a black horseshoe that turns the bow upwards, and under the small shield a golden mill iron (Schrick) . On the shield there is a five-pearl baronial crown on which two crowned helmets rise. On the right helmet, between an open eagle flight, the right wing of which is divided by black and gold, the left by red and silver, sits a forward-looking, crowned, black lion with a red tongue and front paws raised upwards (Fürth helmet). From the left helmet grows upwards and inwards, a wild man crowned with leaves on his head, who holds a brown club in front of him with both hands facing up and to the left (Schrick's helmet). The covers of the right helmet are black and gold, those of the left red and silver, and the shield is held by two forward-looking black lions.

literature

• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses on the year, Volume 20, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1870, p. 258 ff.
• Thomas Hensellek: "The last years of the imperial Bukowina - studies of state politics in the Duchy of Bukowina from 1909 to 1914", Diplomica Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86341-118-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: " The lay judges of the royal chair of Aachen from the earliest times to the final repeal of the imperial city constitution in 1798" , magazine of the Aachener Geschichtsverein, Volume 50, Aachen 1928, pp. 464-468
2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "New general German Adels-Lexicon", Volume 3, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1861, p. 402 f.
3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses on the year, Volume 20, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1870, p. 258
4. ^ Friedrich von Görtz, Carl Zellner: "Illustrated history of the Austrian and Hungarian medals and their owners", Verlag R. Hengstenberg, 1908, p. 121
5. ↑ ^{a b} Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung and Czernowitzer Tagblatt, Common War Edition, No. 140, from Sunday, February 3, 1918, p. 3
6. ↑ Thomas Hensellek: "The last years of the imperial Bukowina - studies on state politics in the Duchy of Bukowina from 1909 to 1914", Diplomica Verlag, Hamburg 2011, p. 111
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. ^ "Bukowinaer Post" from Tuesday, September 24, 1907
9. ^ "Bukowinaer Post" from Sunday, September 8, 1912, p. 1
10. ^ "Bukowinaer Post" from Tuesday, October 28, 1913
11. ^ "Bukowinaer Post" from Thursday, November 6, 1913
12. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2013 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.  
13. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families ...", Volume 3, Verlag T. o. Weigel, Leipzig 1856, p. 152 f.