Ferdinand von Andrian-Werburg

Ferdinand von Andrian-Werburg, painting by Ludwig Börne (1786–1837)

Ferdinand Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg (born July 16, 1776 in Gorizia , † May 12, 1851 in Ansbach ) was the Bavarian government president and played a key role in the development and expansion of the Geological Museum in Bayreuth . He was the grandfather of Ferdinand Leopold von Andrian-Werburg (1835-1914), geologist, anthropologist, ministerial advisor, and the founder of the Anthropological Society in Vienna .

biography

Andrian-Werburg was the youngest son of a colonel from the Electoral Palatinate of Bavaria and initially embarked on a military career, but at the age of 20 he quit his service in a grenadier body regiment to study law at the University of Ingolstadt . After successfully completing his studies, he first became a district judge, then a police director and finally regional president. For a short time he was General Commissioner (District President) of the Rhine District , which later became the Bavarian Palatinate . In this function he tried in vain to prevent the Hambach Festival from taking place on May 27, 1832 by prohibiting and imposing a state of siege over half of the Rhine Palatinate .

In the same year he became General Commissioner of the Upper Main District in Bayreuth , after five years in Würzburg he became District President of Lower Franconia in 1837 and that same year of Upper Franconia (again in Bayreuth). In 1840 he became district president of Middle Franconia in Ansbach before he retired in 1848.

Since 1838 he has carried the Commander's Cross of the Order of St. Michael .

family

At the age of 26, he married 22-year-old Anna Henriette Karolina Edle von Grauvogl (1780–1815) in Wiesensteig on March 7, 1802 ; Children:

1. Alois Ferdinand (1802-1803)

2. Maximilian Ferdinand Adolf (1804-1887)

3. Clementine Sabina Antonia (1806-1858)

4. Eduard Adolf Joseph (1807–1860), captain, royal Bavarian chamberlain, district administrator, lord of Vornbach am Inn etc. He married Anna Maria Magdalena von Bachmayr (1812–1882) on July 8, 1833 in Bamberg , whose family after secularization had temporarily acquired Vornbach monastery .

4.1. Clementine Wilhelmine Magdalene Charlotte

4.2. Ferdinand Leopold (1835–1914), geologist, anthropologist, Ministerialrat, founder of the Anthropological Society in Vienna

4.2.1. Leopold Andrian , actually Leopold Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg (1875–1951), narrator, impressionist poet, literary historian, diplomat, 1918 general manager of the Vienna court theater

4.3. Amalie Wilhelmine Natalie

4.4. Wilhelmine

4.5. Leopold Ernst Eduard Ferdinand Wilhelm

4.6. Ernst Victor

4.7. Ludowika Magdalena Maria Amalie Wilhelmine (Louise)

5. Emil Joseph Ferdinand (1808–1875), royal Bavarian chamberlain, lieutenant colonel

6. Mathilde Maria Anna Karolina (1810–1814)

7. Amalie Maria Anna Karolina (1813–1853), canoness in Bamberg

8. Luise Amalie Maria Anna (1813–1813)

After the death of his first wife, he married 18-year-old Amalie Justine von Hailbronner (1799–1862) on June 24, 1817 in Passau .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria , No. 1, Munich, January 8, 1838, column 13 of the year
2. ↑ The Vornbach am Inn parish marriage book, Volume 6_02, p. 214, via Matricula online