Friedrich Christoph Mayer
Friedrich Christoph Mayer (* 2. November 1762 in Ludwigstal ; † 7. March 1841 in Stuttgart ) was reichsritterschaftlicher bailiff then legal advisor of the Knights Canton Odenwald , later Grand Ducal Hessian Court Council .
Life
Mayer came from Ludwigstal near Tuttlingen . His parents were Jakob Friedrich Mayer († 1809), councilor and mountain administrator in the service of the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , and Elisabeth Bez. Friedrich Christoph Mayer studied law at the University of Tübingen . In 1785 he came to Bischofsheim im Kraichgau as an imperial knighthood bailiff of the Lords of Helmstatt , where he lived in the Alexander Castle and in May 1785 married Johanna Henriette Friederike Hartmann (1762-1820). At that time, many poets and humanities scholars frequented the Mayer family, including Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling and Friedrich von Matthisson . Mayer is said to have dedicated himself to painting and drawing there, while his wife was musically gifted. In 1797 he came to the Lords of Gemmingen in Heilbronn, who also belonged to the knightly canton of Kraichgau, as an imperial knighthood bailiff . In 1803 he became a consultant in the knightly canton of Odenwald of the Franconian knightly circle of the imperial knighthood and moved into the Greckenschloss in Kochendorf . In November 1808 he moved back to Heilbronn for several years. In 1837 he wrote memories from my life , the autograph of which is kept in the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar and which was published in 2007 by the descendant Brigitte Dollinger, née. Mayer (Bietigheim-Bissingen), published as a private print.
family
The Mayer-Hartmann couple had four sons: Karl Mayer (1786–1870) was a poet, August Mayer (* 1792) was a law student and poet and died in the Russian campaign in 1812, Louis Mayer (1791–1843) was a painter and Fritz Mayer ( 1794–1884) was a businessman who managed the iron and steel works in Wasseralfingen and later the Friedrichshall salt works . The daughter Wilhelmine (1798–1867) was the wife of the Councilor of State August Friedrich von Köstlin and mother of the lawyer Karl von Köstlin , her sister Auguste was the wife of the Heilbronn city schoolmaster Johann Clemens Bruckmann .
politics
From 1815 to 1817 Mayer was a member of the Württemberg Estates Assembly for the Oberamt Heilbronn , where he was one of the main speakers of the opposition and one of the leading "legacy lawyers" who campaigned for the restoration of the Estates constitution of Altwuerttemberg . In 1819 he ran unsuccessfully for the assembly of estates in the Gmünd constituency. In 1830 he was finally elected for the city of Heilbronn in a replacement election for the retired Gottlieb Link in the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies , to which he belonged until 1831.
Individual evidence
- ↑ His employer, Carl Christoph von Helmstatt († 1795), came from the Protestant New Bischofsheim branch of the Dürrkasteler branch of the Helmstatt family . He belonged to the knightly canton Kraichgau of the knightly circle Swabia of the imperial knighthood .
- ^ Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, contemporary history collection, signature ZS-10274, entry on Friedrich Christoph Mayer in the HEUSS database
- ↑ Information on the daughters Wilhelmine and Auguste according to the entry on Wilhelmine Köstlin in the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography and according to the information from the Heilbronn City Archives, HEUSS database
literature
- Friedrich Christoph Mayer: Memories from my life for my children and grandchildren dictated in the spring of 1837 , ed. by Inge Dollinger b. Mayer, Bietigheim-Bissingen 1993, 4th edition 2007
- Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 553-554 .
- Peter Beisel: Karl Mayer, a Swabian poet from Neckarbischofsheim . In: Villa Biscovesheim Neckarbischofsheim 988–1988 . Association for home care, Neckarbischofsheim 1988
- Karl Hugo Popp; Hans Riexinger : The knight canton Odenwald in Kochendorf . In: Bad Friedrichshall 1933–1983 . City of Bad Friedrichshall, Bad Friedrichshall 1983, pp. 275–286; here pp. 281–284: The canton officials (especially on Friedrich Christoph Mayer).
- Reinhard Breymayer: Between Princess Antonia von Württemberg and Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn. News on the magnetic and tension fields of Prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger . Heck , Dußlingen 2010, pp. 18 and 75. - (To Mayer as Heilbronn brother-in-law of Heinrich von Kleist's Dresden painter friend Christian Ferdinand Hartmann ; this Heilbronn connection is first highlighted by the author in view of Kleist's knight play Das Käthchen von Heilbronn , and the relationship is also highlighted Mayer's wife, who lived in Heilbronn from 1797 to 1803 and from November 1808 until her death in 1820, was a sister of Kleist's friend Christian Ferdinand Hartmann.)
Web links
- Stammbuch 1781–1788 (Tübingen University Archives, signature UAT S 127/57) online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayer, Friedrich Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bailiff, councilor, consultant, member of parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigstal |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1841 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |