Franz von Löher

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Franz von Löher

Franz Löher (from 1866 von Löher ; born October 15, 1818 in Paderborn , † March 1, 1892 in Munich ) was a German legal historian and politician.

Life

Löher was born the son of a master butcher and attended the Theodorianum grammar school in Paderborn . He then studied medicine at the Friedrichs University in Halle , and from 1838 law. He became a member of the Corps Borussia Halle . When he was inactive , he moved to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich . Extensive trips to Switzerland , France and Northern Italy also fall during this period . He completed his studies in 1841 with the first state examination in Berlin . He then did the legal preparatory service at the Higher Regional Court in Paderborn up to the legal exam in 1845. Then he was a trainee lawyer at the City Court in Paderborn. There Löher was intensely committed to the Association for the History and Antiquity of Westphalia, Dept. Paderborn . During this time he made a name for himself as an author of political and legal-historical articles. In 1845, for example, he wrote about the princes and cities at the time of the Hohenstaufen (as an introduction to a history of the civil liberty of the Germans. ) In 1846 he published a pamphlet on the state of states in Germany at the end of the Middle Ages. In the years 1846/47 Löher traveled to North America via England . There he gave lectures on Germany. He wrote and published in Cincinnati in 1847 the extensive and scientifically exact history and conditions of Germans in America , in which he processed numerous German-American sources.

After his return to Paderborn, Löher was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the “Westfälische Zeitung” in Paderborn in 1848. The newspaper tried to mediate between constitutional and democratic positions. Last but not least, she tried to increase political education among the population. In addition, he was the leading head of the Democrats in Paderborn until 1850. After the start of the counter-revolution in Prussia , Löher organized large demonstrations in Paderborn against the dissolution of the Prussian National Assembly . In addition, Löher played a leading role in the organization of a democratic congress in Münster. There Löher spoke out vehemently in favor of participating in the “tax refusal campaign” and called for new elections. Like other participants in the event, he was arrested on December 11, 1848. There were massive protests against this in Paderborn and a barricade was even erected. Löher's request to refrain from liberation campaigns himself helped calm the situation. In absentia, the Paderborn voters elected him to the second chamber of the Prussian state parliament , the Prussian House of Representatives . However, Löher and several other elected prisoners were not released immediately. This required protests from parliament, among other things. Löher was only released from prison in February 1849. In parliament he belonged to the moderate left and earned a good reputation. In Paderborn there was also the “Centralblatt der Handwerkervereine der Provinz Westfalen” with a clearly democratic orientation. In autumn 1849 he was also elected head of the city council and provisional mayor of Paderborn. However, the government refused to give him his consent, did not allow Löher to take the judge's office and finally dismissed him from civil service. However, he was acquitted on all counts in 1850 when the proceedings that led to his arrest in 1848 were resumed.

Instead, Löher turned back to science. In 1851 his work System des Prussischen Landrechts was published in German law and philosophical meaning , with which he also received his doctorate in Freiburg. A year later, he completed his habilitation at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen for German state and legal history. In 1855 Löher became honorary professor for regional and ethnology in Munich. He also served Maximilian II Joseph (Bavaria) and the Queen in many cases as a "literary secretary". In 1856 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and two years later of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1859, Löher was appointed to the chair for general literary history and regional and ethnology, which had been set up especially for him . In the years 1862/63 he traveled to many parts of Europe. In 1864 he was appointed head of the Bavarian General Reich Archives . He was finally raised to the nobility in 1866 . In 1884 he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . Numerous other trips and publications followed. Including a multi-volume work on Jakobäa von Bayern-Straubing (1862–1869). In 1876 Löher founded the Archival Journal. Since he also carried out numerous commissions for Ludwig II , Löher came under fire after his death. Under pressure from the Chamber of Deputies (Bavaria) he had to give up his office as archive director in 1888.

Works

  • The island of Thasos , Munich 1875.
  • History and conditions of the Germans in America , Cincinnati and Leipzig 1847. (Repro British Library, Series: History of Colonial North America)
  • Russia's Will and Will , 1st - 3rd book, Theodor Ackermann, Munich 1881.

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz von Löher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Franz von Löher  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 96/47
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Franz von Löher. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 30, 2015 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Löher, Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1892
Place of death Munich