Franz Albert Leopold von Oberndorff
Franz Albert Leopold Fortunat von Oberndorff (born November 15, 1720 in Regendorf (today the municipality of Zeitlarn ), Upper Palatinate , † May 29, 1799 in Mannheim ) was an Electoral Palatinate or Palatinate-Bavarian minister and governor of the Electoral Palatinate.
Live and act
He was the son of the Palatinate Land Commissioner and Chamberlain Philipp Anton Leopold Freiherr von Oberndorff (1675–1770) and his wife Maria Anna Susanna Auguste Josefa Freiin von Stingelheim (1700–46). The family professed their Catholic faith.
Franz Albert Leopold von Oberndorff and his father came to the Mannheim court of Elector Karl Philipp in 1734 . He served here as the page of the future Elector Karl Theodor , who remained on friendly terms with him at all times.
After legal studies in Heidelberg , from 1744, he was promoted to the state administration and court service. First councilor, he was promoted to chief appellate judge in 1748, president of the aristocratic bank in the government in 1753, privy councilor in 1754 , court judge in 1756 and chief bailiff of Boxberg in 1765 . In 1773 Baron von Oberndorff was appointed secret minister of state and conference in all state, imperial, district, sovereign, judicial, religious and police matters.
When Elector Karl Theodor had to relocate the capital and residence from Mannheim to Munich as a result of the unification of the Electoral Palatinate and Bavarian Bavaria in 1778 , he appointed his confidante Franz Albert Leopold von Oberndorff as the highest minister and governor in the Electoral Palatinate, which had now become a province, and in the Duchy of Jülich- Mountain a. All officials and authorities of these areas were subordinate to him, all electoral instructions required his countersignature. In December 1787, Oberndorff was also given the management of all finances in Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate.
The baron became Honorary President of the Electoral Palatinate Academy of Sciences , Knight of the Order of the Palatinate Lion (1768), Grand Prior of the New Castle of the Order of Malta, Bavarian Tongue (1782) and Imperial Count in 1790 . In 1777 Oberndorff acquired a manor house in Neckarhausen and had it expanded into his residential palace. In 1792 he also bought the castle of the electoral Palatinate privy councilor Johann Sebastian von Castell in Edingen .
During the First Coalition War , Oberndorff supported the Elector's fluctuating neutrality policy. On September 20, 1795, he handed Mannheim over to the French without a fight, thus saving him the bombardment. When the imperial troops recaptured the city in November of that year, imperial field marshal Charles Joseph Clerfayt had the governor arrested and he was to be charged with high treason. As Elector Karl Theodor stood up for him on a lasting basis, Count Oberndorff was released on March 27, 1796 on condition that he would no longer hold any public office in the future. Elector Max IV. Joseph restored his honor and rehabilitated him in 1799.
Franz Albert von Oberndorff died on May 29, 1799 in Mannheim, he remained unmarried. The Graf von Oberndorff elementary school in Edingen-Neckarhausen is named after him. His nephew Christian Joseph Maria Fortunat von Oberndorff (1762–1809) was the Electoral Palatinate chamberlain and president of the court chamber. The niece Maria Louisa Theresia Fortunata von Oberndorff (1767–1804), married to the Bavarian treasurer Franz Xaver Freiherr von Lerchenfeld (1758–1832), was buried in the then Catholic choir of the Heiliggeistkirche Heidelberg , where her qualitative epitaph has been preserved. The diplomat Alfred von Oberndorff (1870–1963) also comes from this family.
literature
- Uwe Distler: Franz Albert Leopold von Oberndorff , Contributions to Palatinate History, Volume 17, District Association Palatinate, 2000, ISBN 978-3-927754-40-9
- Wilhelm Kreutz: Oberndorff, Franz Albert Fortunat Leopold Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 397 ( digitized version ).
- Ralf Fetzer: The Counts of Oberndorff. Noble worlds between Upper Palatinate and Upper Rhine , Edingen-Neckarhausen 2005, ISBN 3-9809492-1-4
Web links
- Biographical page of the Heidelberg History Association
- Franz Albert von Oberndorff in Napoleon Wiki
- Website for the Oberndorff exhibition in the Neckarhausen family castle, 2005
- Photo of the grave of the Counts of Oberndorff, in the Neckarhausen cemetery
Individual evidence
- ^ Website on Neckarhausen Castle
- ↑ Homepage of the Graf-von-Oberndorff-Grundschule ( memento of the original from February 1, 2014 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.
- ^ Genealogical website on Maria Louisa Theresia Fortunata von Oberndorff (1767-1804)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oberndorff, Franz Albert Leopold von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oberndorff, Franz Albert Leopold Freiherr von; Oberndorff, Franz Albert Leopold Count of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Elector Palatinate Minister and Governor of the Elector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1720 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Regendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1799 |
| Place of death | Mannheim |