Franz von Gaertner

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Franz Carl von Gaertner

Franz Carl von Gaertner (born April 28, 1817 in Neuwied , † September 20, 1872 in Saarbrücken ) was a Prussian administrative officer.

origin

Franz von Gaertner was the son of District Administrator Carl von Gaertner (1794-1840) and his wife Luise, née Winz (1796-1848). His brother Johann Otto (1829-1894) became a Prussian lieutenant general and Hermann major general.

Life

After graduating from high school in Kreuznach , he studied law at Bonn from 1837 . On August 10, 1838, he was one of the six founders of the Corps Palatia Bonn , listed as number 1 on the Corps list. In the final year of his undergraduate degree, he served as a one-year volunteer . After the auscultator test, he became an auscultator at the Koblenz district court in June 1840 . Two years later he passed the traineeship exam and at the end of August 1842 became a trainee lawyer at the Rhenish Court of Appeal in Cologne . In August 1846, Gaertner passed the assessor examination . After his first activities at the Bonn Regional Court , the Ministry of Justice and the Koblenz Regional Court, he was a legal assistant between 1848 and 1850 at the court martial of the VIII Army Corps in Koblenz, the Ministry of Justice and the General Procuratorate in Cologne. In 1849, as a corps auditor in the campaign against the Baden Revolution, at the request of the commander Moritz von Hirschfeld , he prepared an opinion on the martial law death sentence against the revolutionary Maximilian Dortu , in which he described it as flawed and expressly praised Dortmund's courageous demeanor at the hearing. The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Angered by this report by a " democratic auditor [s]", the execution of Dortmund could not prevent it.

In October 1850 he became procurator at the Saarbrücken regional court . After six months he was appointed state procurator in Saarbrücken.

Friedrich Wilhelm IV appointed Gaertner to the district administrator of the Saarbrücken district on December 24, 1855 . He held the office until his death in 1872.

Since 1953/54 the "Gaertnerstraße" in Saarbrücken-Dudweiler has been named after him.

family

Gaertner married Irma Mathilde Haldy (1833–1888) on July 1, 1851. The couple had several children:

  • Irma Karoline (1852-1854)
  • Karl Franz August (1855–1900), Major a. D. ⚭ 1889 Hedwig Ramona von Jordan (* 1869)
  • Otto Friedrich (* 1856), captain a. D.
  • Maria Camilla (* 1863) ⚭ 1883 Eduard von Rudno-Rudzinski († March 1890)
  • Kurt Wilhelm (* 1869) ⚭ 1905 Dora Wilhelma Holtz (* 1881)

literature

  • Klara van Eyll : 150 years Corps Palatia Bonn 1838–1988 . Bonn 1988, pp. 15-17. (with picture)
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1911. Fifth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1910, p. 269 f.
  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 459 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Franz von Gaertner, Friedrich Schneider, Carl Herf, Franz Götz, Wilhelm Arndt and Ludwig Simon ." ( 150 Years Corps Palatia Bonn 1838–1988 , p. 15.)
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 25/1.
  3. ^ Jens Fachbach: Ludwig Simon von Trier (1819-1872). 48er, exile, European. A picture of life. Stadtmuseum Bonn , Bonn 2018, ISBN 978-3-931878-53-5 , pp. 203 f.
  4. ↑ District of Saarbrücken administrative history and district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke)
personal data
SURNAME Gaertner, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaertner, Franz Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwied
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1872
Place of death Saarbrücken