Franz Xaver von Pflumper

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Franz Xaver Freiherr von Pflimmern (born April 1, 1769 in Biberach an der Riss ; † June 21, 1851 in Augsburg ) was a Bavarian civil servant.

Life

Franz Xaver von Pflummer was born in the free imperial city of Biberach an der Riss and came from a noble Catholic patrician family . He was the son of Fidelis Magnus von Pflimmern (1734–1796), Dr. jur. both rights, court advisor and mayor of Biberach, an office that his ancestors have already exercised seven times. His mother was Maria Anna von Lemppenbach and he had eight siblings. The following is known by name:

  • Friderich Aloys von Pflimmern (* March 5, 1766; † unknown), district judge in Bobingen ;
  • Carl Johann Baptist von Pflimmern (* May 25, 1771; † unknown), Royal Bavarian Rittmeister of the Garde du Corps Regiment on horseback and officer of the Royal French Legion of Honor ;
  • Johann Nepomuk Fidel Magnus Heinrich von Pflimmern (1777–1852), town and office clerk in Biberach an der Riss, married to Elisabeth von Freyenthal (* May 7, 1791; † unknown).

After completing his legal studies, he was admitted to the Augsburg patrician families by a council resolution of July 25, 1790 . On July 1, 1794, he was appointed City Court Assessor and on July 28, he was elected to the inner council. In this task he proved himself after a short time, because he included a two-time weaver revolt in the same year. As a result of this weaver revolt, several members of the magistrate had been forced to resign from their offices, so that on September 23, 1794 he was promoted to Catholic mayor in Augsburg. In 1797 he was elected a privy councilor and he remained in this office until the mediatization of Augsburg, after the two city ​​officials , the highest dignity in the city.

Together with the councilor Johann Conrad von Schmid (1749-1823) he was sent on November 15, 1797 as a delegate to the Rastatt Congress and left shortly before the Rastatt envoy murder on April 23, 1799. During his stay there, he had the opportunity to make connections that later enabled him to give the Augsburg city council important information about the state affairs that Paris carried out against Germany. He was later sent to Paris to ensure Augsburg's neutrality with the French government.

On December 26, 1805, after 644 years, Augsburg lost its imperial immediacy due to the resolution of the Pressburg Peace and was assigned to the Kingdom of Bavaria . The Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph commissioned Franz Xaver von Pflimmern to reorganize the municipal and administrative system of the city of Augsburg and made him the first royal city commissioner to head the city.

When the higher administrative offices of the Kingdom of Bavaria were reorganized, the king appointed him the first district councilor of the Lechkreis in 1808 and awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown the following year . In 1810 a new district division took place and Augsburg was dissolved as the district capital; now Franz Xaver von Pflimmern was transferred as the first councilor to the general commissioner of the Oberdonaukreis in Eichstätt and was represented there in the most important presentations. Among other things, he was a member of the commission that had been formed for border rights and reconciliation with the Kingdom of Württemberg .

On September 27, 1813, he was entered in the nobility register of the Kingdom of Bavaria.

With the district division in 1817 and the formation of a district government in Augsburg, he received the first government council position there .

On July 2, 1827, his request for retirement was approved, he was awarded the title and rank of government director and he was made tax and stamp free. After his retirement, he managed several family foundations.

Franz Xaver von Pflimmern was married to Josepha Freiin von Haysdorf († 1828) since July 6, 1799, and they had four daughters together.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JS Ed and JG Gruber (ed.): General Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste. Third section O – Z. 21st part. P. 263. Brockhaus, 1846 ( google.de [accessed on February 15, 2019]).
  2. ^ Karl Heinrich von Lang: Book of the nobility of the Kingdom of Baiern: basic work. 1 . S. 201. Gassert, 1815 ( google.de [accessed February 15, 2019]).
  3. ^ Friedrich Cast: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Kingdom of Württemberg . P. 293. Verlag der JF Cast'schen Buchhandlung, 1844 ( google.de [accessed on February 15, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Bavaria: Royal Bavarian Government Gazette: 1813 . S. 1387, 1813 ( google.de [accessed February 15, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Pflummer, Franz Xaver von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pflummer, Franz Xaver Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1851
Place of death augsburg