Franz Ludwig von Hornthal

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Franz Ludwig von Hornthal

Franz Ludwig von Hornthal (born March 5, 1760 in Hamburg ; † June 27, 1833 in Bamberg ), German lawyer and politician , was the first mayor and honorary citizen of Bamberg.

Life

Franz Ludwig von Hornthal was born (under a different name) as the son of a rabbi in Hamburg, attended the famous Talmud school in Fürth and finally converted from Judaism to Catholicism on May 2, 1779 in Bamberg. The cathedral capitular Johann Karl Joseph Horneck von Weinheim (1723-1791) and the recently elected bishop Franz Ludwig von Erthal were his godparents, from whose names his new first and family name was formed.

Hornthal studied in Bamberg and worked as a respected lawyer at the Bamberg Regional Court. On September 17, 1792 he married Anna Maria Betz, the daughter of the convert and prince-bishop's personal physician Johann Philipp Betz, in Amlingstadt . On December 4, 1794, Johann Peter , his only son, was born, named after his godfather, the merchant Johann Peter Raulino (1751–1795). After the death of his wife in 1814, Franz Ludwig von Hornthal married Philippine Stockmann, born in 1818, who was also widowed. Orth (1776-1835).

After the dissolution of the prince-bishopric , he remained in the service of the Bavarian state. From 1803 he was police director in Bamberg and had the first city lighting with 250 oil lamps installed in Bamberg, from 1805 he was first general war commissioner , then from 1806 Royal Bavarian Supreme Judicial Councilor of the Supreme Judicial Office in Franconia and from 1807 he was in charge of the registration and assignment of the Nuremberg residents National and city debt. For this he was raised to hereditary nobility on April 23, 1815 by King Maximilian I Joseph .

After the introduction of the municipal constitution in Bavaria , he was Bamberg's first mayor from 1818 to 1821, but his re-election failed. From 1819 to 1825 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies. There he was a member of the Debt Repayment Committee (1819) and the Legislative Committee (1822). There, the introduction of a district administration system comparable to that already introduced in the Rhineland, the introduction of which was only approved after many debates in 1828 and from which the Bavarian district administration was essentially derived, goes back to his application. His proposal, which was not accepted, to swear the army on the constitution instead of the king also caused a stir . Since his re-election to the state parliament was prevented by the fate of the government, he devoted himself to writing in the 1820s and also published leaflets, the content of which met with displeasure with the government. This led to his expulsion from the state parliament by decree in 1831.

From 1829 to 1832 he was president of the district administrator of the Obermainkreis, which was also created according to his proposals . He gave a prominent speech at the Gaibach Constitutional Festival in 1832.

He was buried in the so-called portico in the main cemetery in Bamberg (Department 1, No. 1). The crypt was abandoned in 1953. The remains were "evacuated".

Honors

Hornthal was raised to hereditary nobility in 1815. In 1819 he became the first honorary citizen of Bamberg . The Hornthalstrasse in Bamberg is named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the criticism of the constitutional charter of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Bamberg 1818 ( digitized version )
  • Presentation of the events in the attempts at healing made by Prince von Hohenlohe zu Bamberg, as they actually happened . [Bamberg] 1822 (digitized version)
  • Will the German federal princes, especially the constitutional ones, take part in an enemy invasion, in the war against Spain? Campe, Nuremberg 1823 (digitized version)
  • Will the German Federal Princes, especially the constitutional ones, interfere in the internal affairs of France - take part in any war against France? Riegel and Wießner, Nuremberg 1830 (digitized version)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ulrich Wirz: Franz Ludwig von Hornthal . In: Renate Baumgärtel-Fleischmann (Hrsg.): Bamberg becomes Bavarian. The secularization of the Bamberg Monastery in 1802/03 . Bamberg 2003, pp. 427-431. ( Digitized version, accessed January 1, 2019 )
  2. ↑ Wendehorst, Alfred (ed.): The Benedictine abbey and the aristocratic secular canon monastery St. Burkard in Würzburg . Berlin u. a. 2001, p. 250.
  3. ↑ Stephan von Minden: Michel-Raulino, a Bamberg family . Selbstverlag, Bamberg et al. 2011, pp. 40–49.
  4. ^ Franz Friedrich: "Third addendum to: The Bamberg Years of Barbara Krafft nata Steiner", in: Historischer Verein Bamberg , Vol. 123 (1987), p. 314.
  5. ↑ City history of Bamberg on www.skalle66.de ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2009 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. , accessed February 11, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skalle66.de
  6. ^ Josef Leeb: Suffrage and elections to the Second Chamber of the Bavarian Assembly of Estates in Vormärz (1818–1848) . Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1996, p. 761 [1]
  7. ^ Heinz F. Fränkel: New and old Bamberg streets . 4th improved edition 2002 (online) (PDF) , accessed February 14, 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Hornthal, Franz Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician; Mayor and honorary citizen of Bamberg
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1833
Place of death Bamberg