Franz Xaver von Zwackh

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Franz Xaver von Zwackh

Franz Xaver von Zwackh (also Zwack ) auf Holzhausen (born October 31, 1756 in Regensburg ; † November 7, 1843 in Mannheim ) was the royal Bavarian State Councilor and first district president of the Bavarian Rhine District in Speyer .

Life

Franz Xaver von Zwackh auf Holzhausen was the son of the curb- Bavarian director of the lottery fund Philipp von Zwackh, Landsasse auf Holzhausen, who was raised to hereditary nobility and knighthood in 1809 . His younger brother was the royal Bavarian privy councilor and director of the Higher Appeal Court in Munich, Philipp von Zwackh auf Holzhausen.

Franz Xaver von Zwackh studied law at the University of Ingolstadt from 1774 to 1776 and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. In 1777 he was first employed as a chancellery, then as a lottery secretary in Munich. In 1778 he was appointed court counselor, 1780 censorship council, 1782 fiscal councilor and court chamber councilor.

He belonged since May 1776 under the code names " Cato [Marcus Porcius]", or " Danaus " or " Philipp Strozzi " to the newly founded Order of Illuminati . Here he became - as a former pupil of Adam Weishaupt and his 'right hand' until Knigges entered - in February 1778 also a member of the “ Areopagus ”. In 1778 he joined the Munich Freemason Lodge on the guardianship and became its keeper of the seal. He was also a member of St. Theodor's Lodge of the Good Council .

In 1785 he was transferred to Landshut in connection with the ban on the Order of Illuminati in Bavaria, of which he was one of the founders . Later fled reconnaissance to Augsburg and Wetzlar, in 1786 to Paris.

In 1787 he became the office director and secret council of Prince Friedrich III. zu Salm-Kyrburg , a year later he was employed by the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar. From 1798, Zwackh was the envoy of several imperial royal houses to the Rastatt Congress , including the underage Prince Friedrich IV zu Salm-Kyrburg , whose rights he represented as a guardianship councilor until 1810.

Under the Bavarian reform minister Maximilian von Montgelas , Zwackh made another career in Bavaria. In 1806 he was Minister Plenipotentiary of Bavaria at the Rhine Confederation , in 1815 Bavarian envoy to the ducal-Nassau courts. In the same year he worked as court commissioner of the Bavarian-Austrian Rhenish state administration in Speyer . On August 19, 1816 he was appointed the first regional president of the Bavarian Rhine District (Rheinpfalz). A few months later, on March 16, 1817, with the fall of Montgelas, he lost his office and retired into private life. He spent his retirement in Mannheim.

Von Zwackh wrote a number of educational and legal historical writings.

The name von Zwackhs is associated with the later customary name Zwockel for the civil servants from old Bavaria who worked in the Palatinate .

Honors

estate

  • Landesarchiv Speyer, inventory B1 (estates and family archives) No. V 29 (estate of Franz Xaver Ritter von Zwackh on Holzhausen). Cataloging
  • Mannheim City Archives: Assets of the late Bavarian State Councilor Franz Xaver von Zwackh-Holzhausen and his wife Sophia, b. Abel, including four wills of Franz Xaver von Zwackh. Cataloging

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Franz Xaver von Zwack  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Karl Heinrich von Lang: Adelsbuch des Kingdom of Baiern , Munich 1815, p. 607. Online
  2. ↑ a b Königlich-Baierisches Regierungsblatt , Munich 1812, column 1938. Online
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families in an exact, complete and generally understandable description , Leipzig 1857, p. 473. Online
  4. ↑ Königlich-Baierisches Regierungsblatt , Munich 1815, column 156. Online
  5. ↑ a b Königlich-Baierisches Regierungsblatt , Munich 1816, column 577. Online
  6. ↑ Königlich-Baierisches Regierungsblatt , Munich 1817, column 461. Online
  7. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung , 1844, 3rd volume, Leipzig and Halle 1844, column 18. Online
  8. ↑ Werner Hesse: First Zwackh, then Zwockh, then Zwoagl and Zwogl . On the etymological traces of the Palatinate word Zwockel for Bavaria and the Zwockelsbrücke in Neustadt. In: Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Mittelhaardter Rundschau . No. 162 , July 15, 2000.
  9. ↑ Königlich-Baierisches Regierungsblatt , Munich 1817, column 998. Online
personal data
SURNAME Zwackh, Franz Xaver von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zwackh auf Holzhausen, Franz Xaver Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian State Council
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1843
Place of death Mannheim