Friedrich Maximilian von Günderrode

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Friedrich von Günderrode

Friedrich Maximilian Freiherr von Günderrode (born December 13, 1753 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 9, 1824 ibid) was a German lawyer and administrative clerk and the last city scholar of the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main.

life and work

Friedrich von Günderrode came from the old Frankfurt patrician family Günderrode . His father was the alderman and councilor of Justinian Günderrode (1721-1802), his mother was born Elisabeth Charlotte von Schneider, called Schmidt (1735–1817). Friedrich Maximilian attended high school in Hanau and Karlsruhe and studied law in Göttingen from 1771 . 1773 he went as an assessor to the Imperial Court of Wetzlar , 1775 as manorial court assessor to Wiesbaden to the court of the Prince of Nassau-Usingen . There he gained experience in justice, administration and diplomacy.

In 1785 he accepted a call to his home town of Frankfurt to become councilor and aldermen. He took over the management of the city's construction and, as president of the Lutheran consistory, supervised the church and school system. In 1789 he became a municipal deputy at the Upper Rhine District . After the city was occupied by French revolutionary troops under General Custine in 1792 and given a contribution of two million guilders , he belonged to a delegation that was supposed to negotiate the decree of one million at the convention in Paris . The delegation was taken hostage and witnessed the execution of King Louis XVI. before she was released at the end of January 1793.

On June 5, 1796 he married Friedrike Wilhelmine von Kettelhodt from Rudolstadt . In August 1796 he was taken hostage with other patricians in order to force the payment of a further contribution of eight million francs. Günderrode was interned in several French fortresses one after the other and only released on December 2, 1796. In 1797 he represented the city at the Rastatt Congress .

In his office as director of the consistory, he worked with the Lutheran senior Wilhelm Friedrich Hufnagel primarily to improve the urban school system, which was in poor condition at the time. In Frankfurt there were no public schools apart from the municipal grammar school, which was founded in 1520, only the district schools, in which private schoolmasters in return for payment due to an urban concession usually inherited over generations, elementary lessons in reading, writing, catechism and, against special remuneration, also granted in arithmetic. In 1803 Günderrode and Hufnagel founded the Musterschule , Frankfurt's first secondary school . The first girls' school later emerged from it ( Elisabethenschule ). Both schools still exist today as high schools in the Nordend district . The municipal high school also received a new, contemporary curriculum under the supervision of Günderrode and Hufnagel.

From February to August, Günderrode negotiated again in Paris in order to preserve the independence of the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt. However, he soon recognized the hopelessness of these efforts and accepted that the city should fall under the rule of the new prince Carl Theodor von Dalberg . Under Dalberg's government, Günderrode was appointed privy councilor and city schoolmaster in 1806 and took on a key role as representative of the old urban elite in the princely administrative hierarchy. In 1810, when the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt was formed, he was appointed Prefect of the Frankfurt Department. In the same year he was elected for the department of Frankfurt and the electoral group of property owners in the assembly of estates of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt .

When Frankfurt was occupied by Allied troops in October 1813 and the independence of the city was restored, Günderrode took over the provisional management of the administration as city schoolteacher. After the new constitution came into force, Günderrode became president of the court of appeal and the legislative body of the Free City of Frankfurt . He died on May 9, 1824.

The Günderrodeschule, founded in 1901 in the Frankfurt district of Gallus, and a street near the Galluswarte are named after him.

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  1. ^ Frankfurt am Main: Günderrodeschule. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Günderrode, Friedrich Maximilian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Günderrode, Friedrich Maximilian Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1824
Place of death Frankfurt am Main