Friedrich von Brettreich

Friedrich von Brettreich, 1916

Maximilian Friedrich Brettreich , Knight of Brettreich since 1906 , (* December 25, 1858 in Bamberg ; † March 21, 1938 on board a ship off Haifa ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Brettreich studied law in Würzburg from 1876 to 1880, where he became a member of the Corps Bavaria in 1877 . After various positions in the Bavarian administrative service, he was government president of the Upper Palatinate and Regensburg from 1905 to 1907 . In the meantime, Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria had awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in 1906 . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility status and he was allowed to call himself “Knight of Brettreich” after being entered in the nobility register . In 1907, Prime Minister Freiherr von Podewils brought him into his cabinet as Minister of State of the Interior, to which he was a member initially until 1912 and then again from 1916 to 1918. In between he was the district president of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg from 1913 to 1916 .

Honors

Brettreich is an honorary citizen of Würzburg (since 1907), Regensburg (since 1916) and Ruhpolding . In the places mentioned, streets are named after him.

He was a member of the Corps Bavaria Munich.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 201 , 384
2. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria for the year 1914. Munich 1914, p. 24.