Ludwig von Stößer

Franz Ludwig von Stösser

Franz Ludwig von Stösser (also Stoesser or Stößer ) (born June 21, 1824 in Heidelberg , † February 26, 1901 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Baden lawyer and politician .

origin

Franz Ludwig von Stösser came from an old Baden civil servant family. He was the son of the court president Johann Gottfried Stösser and had five older siblings. He was baptized Protestant.

Life

Franz Ludwig von Stösser studied law from 1842 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he and Ernst Friedrich Krafft were among the first members of the (third) Corps Palatia Heidelberg in 1842 . When the corps died in 1844, he joined the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft Allemannia and in 1845 the Neckarbund Heidelberg . In 1847 he passed the state examination in law. He then took up an actuary position at the Bruchsal District Office as a legal intern . Then he was a trainee at the Heidelberg Oberamt and in 1848 at the Durlach Oberamt . In September 1848 he went to Frankfurt as an actuary to the investigative commission of the embarrassing interrogation office. This commission came into being because of the September unrest in Frankfurt that broke out during the revolutionary year of 1848 . In 1848, Stösser also underwent the state examination for cameralists. In January 1849 he received an independent job at the Bühl district office , and in July 1849 at the Durlach regional office. After a brief activity at the Achern District Office , he joined the Baden Ministry of Finance at the end of November 1849. In 1850 and 1851 he worked with the Grand Ducal Court Domain Chamber with short interruptions. In 1851 he took over the administration of the Engen office as deputy to the chief bailiff Johann Baptist Schey . In the summer of 1852 Stösser worked as a judicial officer at the Donaueschingen district office and from the following autumn as a secretarial intern in the Ministry of the Interior, from 1854 as a trainee. In 1855 he took up the position of a university clerk in Heidelberg and from July 1859 was a clerk at the Eppingen district office . In November 1861 he was promoted to senior bailiff. In March 1862 he was transferred to the Constance district office as an official member of the board . In October 1866 Stösser became city director and head of the Heidelberg district office and in October 1869 state commissioner and ministerial councilor in Mannheim .

politics

Stösser was a member of the National Liberal Party . From 1871 to 1880 he was a member of the Lower Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly as a member of the Wiesloch and Orten des Amt Heidelberg . Since September 25, 1876, Stösser was Baden's Minister of the Interior in the Turban government . The years as Minister of the Interior of Baden were under the influence of the Socialist Law , which was connected with various police measures. In addition, Stösser endeavored in negotiations with the Archdiocese of Freiburg to take measures to finally settle the Baden Kulturkampf . He achieved this by the state waiving the so-called cultural exam. This led to serious resentments with the parliamentary group of the national liberal party in the state parliament, since in their opinion the state sovereignty vis-à-vis the Archdiocese of Freiburg was not sufficiently safeguarded by giving up the cultural examination. On April 20, 1881, Stösser resigned as Minister of the Interior. On April 22, 1881 he became President of the Evangelical Upper Church Council and, in 1887, First Class Privy Council . In 1895 he retired for health reasons and moved to Freiburg im Breisgau , where his wife soon died and he married her widowed sister, who looked after him until his death in 1901.

family

Stösser had been married to Luise Flad, a pastor's daughter from Kieselbronn , since 1854 . The marriage resulted in three sons and a daughter. In particular, Stösser's household in Constance developed into a meeting place for local society between 1862 and 1866. In addition to his wife, her younger sister and the mentally eloquent mother of the two also took care of the hospitality and attractiveness of the house. After the death of his first wife, he married her now widowed sister when he was over 70 years old. His daughter Luise von Stösser (born September 27, 1855, † March 17, 1926) had been married to the lawyer Wilhelm Groos since 1878 .

Honors

• 1851 Prussian Red Eagle Order, third class
• 1868 Knight's Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion
• 1871 Baden and German war medals
• 1873 Prussian Red Eagle Order, first class
• 1877 Commander's Cross, second class with oak leaves of the Order of the Zähringer Lion
• 1879 Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of the Zähringer Lion
• 1881 Nobility recognition or renewal of the nobility diploma awarded by Emperor Rudolf II in 1584 to the ancestor Kaspar Stösser on August 20, 1584
• 1886 Dr. theol. hc Heidelberg
• 1891 Grand Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion
• 1895 Golden chain for the Grand Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion

Fonts

• Lecture on the administration of mild foundations at the second meeting of the economic association for the Seekreis in Überlingen on November 5, 1865
• The Baden church council instruction of 6 July 1897 and the freedom of teaching of the clergy of the Protestant church. Academic publishing bookshop von Mohr, Freiburg im Breisgau and Leipzig 1897.

literature

• Badische Biographien , Volume 5, Heidelberg 1901, p. 739 f.
• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 547 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 531-532.
• Michael Bock: The Baden state parliament members from the Wiesloch district 1819–1933 , in: Wiesloch - Contributions to History Vol. 1, Ubstadt-Weiher 2000, pp. 156–159.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 118 , 46.
2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 531.