Friedrich Krafft from Crailsheim

Friedrich Krafft of Crailsheim (1880)

Friedrich Krafft of Crailsheim (1902)

Friedrich August Ernst Gustav Christoph Krafft Freiherr von Crailsheim , from 1901 Count of Crailsheim , (born March 15, 1841 in Ansbach , † February 13, 1926 in Munich ) was a Bavarian lawyer and Protestant politician.

origin

His parents were the Bavarian lieutenant Richard von Crailsheim (1805–1843) and his wife Sabine, noble von Zumpf (1816–1895). He was the third child and the only son. His older sisters were Julia (1837-1890) and Laura (1839-1908). The father died in 1843 when Friedrich was not yet two years old.

Life

He attended high school in Ansbach and graduated in 1858 as the best student. Crailsheim studied at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen , where he was a member of the Corps Onoldia and fought six courses . He moved to the University of Leipzig and the University of Zurich and passed his first state examination in Erlangen on October 18, 1862. In 1865 he passed the second exam as the best candidate. In the same year he married Luise Freiin von Lindenfels (1844-1891).

In 1870 he joined the Ministry of Commerce in Munich. From January 1, 1872, he served in the Ministry of the Royal House and Foreign Affairs and soon made a career: in 1874 he became Legation Councilor and in 1879 Secret Legation Councilor II class . In 1880 Krafft von Crailsheim became foreign minister in the government of Johann von Lutz . It was the only time that the Foreign Minister was not also chairman of the Council of Ministers. With Lutz, he played a key role in the removal of King Ludwig II in 1886 , which earned him a brief imprisonment.

In 1890 he succeeded the late Johann von Lutz as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister). He held this office until 1903. In 1895 he was also Reichsrat in the First Chamber of the Bavarian Parliament. He became a close advisor to the Prince Regent Luitpold . After the confrontational phase of the Bavarian Kulturkampf up to 1890, a certain relaxation occurred under Crailsheim, because the latter initially tried to work with the moderate forces in the Bavarian center and with the liberals . The Swinemünde dispatch indirectly led to the end of his term of office. In his resignation speech, he retrospectively named two main topics of his career, denominational problems and Bavaria's relationship to the Reich. He last lived with his daughter in a house on Seestrasse by the Englischer Garten (then number 3a, today number 20).

family

He married Luise von Lindenfels (1844-1891), a daughter of Baron Karl von Lindenfels (1802-1862) ( Thumsenreuth line ), the government director of Middle Franconia, and Freiin Marie Holzschuher von Harrlach in 1865 in Ansbach . The couple had a daughter and a son.

Honors

• 1894: Grand Cordon Leopold Order .
• 1896: Order of the Black Eagle .
• March 12, 1901: hereditary count .
• 1914: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of St. Michael

on August 1, 1893, he received an honorary doctorate from the law faculty of the University of Erlangen and was a multiple honorary citizen of Bavarian cities; In 1901 his hometown Ansbach made him an honorary citizen.

literature

• Karl Ottmar Freiherr von Aretin :  Crailsheim, Krafft Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 387 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Uwe Schaper : Krafft Graf von Crailsheim: the life and work of the Bavarian Prime Minister. Nuremberg City Archives, Nuremberg 1991, ISBN 3-87432-117-7 (also dissertation, University of Erlangen, 1988).
• Karl Möckl: The time of the Prince Regent. Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-486-47521-5 (historical background).

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Krafft von Crailsheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Friedrich Krafft von Crailsheim in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ^ Uwe Schaper: Krafft Graf von Crailsheim. P. 62.
2. ^ Uwe Schaper: Krafft Graf von Crailsheim. P. 23.
3. ^ Uwe Schaper: Krafft Graf von Crailsheim. P. 24.
4. ^ Uwe Schaper: Krafft Graf von Crailsheim. P. 27.
5. ^ Uwe Schaper: Krafft Graf von Crailsheim. P. 55.
6. ↑ Primus inter pares , i.e. without authority to issue instructions. Uwe Schaper: Krafft Graf von Crailsheim. P. 9, note 1.
7. ^ Uwe Schaper: Krafft Graf von Crailsheim. P. 286 f.
8. ^ Uwe Schaper: Krafft Graf von Crailsheim. P. 63.
9. ^ Albert I; Museum Dynasticum N °. 21: 2009 / n ° 2.
10. ↑ Journal de Bruxelles 14-05-1896
11. ^ Uwe Schaper: Krafft Graf von Crailsheim. P. 60.
12. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria for the year 1914. Munich 1914, p. 30.
13. ^ Uwe Schaper: Krafft Graf von Crailsheim. P. 61.