Friedrich von Drais

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Coat of arms of the Barons Drais von Sauerbronn

Friedrich Freiherr Drais von Sauerbronn (born February 10, 1798 in Gernsbach , † June 18, 1883 in Beuron ) was Baden chamberlain , adjutant to the Grand Duke and chief forest master ; as a widower Benedictine in Beuron Abbey .

origin

He was born the son of the Chamberlain and Chief Forester Friedrich Heinrich Georg von Drais (1758-1833). His brother was the court judge Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich von Drais (1755-1830), father of Karl von Drais (1785-1851), the inventor of the draisine named after him .

biography

Friedrich von Drais grew up in the Protestant faith. In his place of birth and from 1809 in Freiburg a tutor taught him. In 1811 he went there and in Mannheim as a page to the Baden court, where Grand Duchess Stéphanie exercised character influence on him. At the same time he attended the Lyceum in Freiburg. In 1813 the young aristocrat entered the war school and took part in the Baden military in the campaigns of 1814 and 1815.

After his return, Friedrich von Drais remained in the army until 1825, primarily as the personal adjutant of Grand Duke Ludwig I.

He finally switched to the forestry service in his country, where he achieved the rank of chief forestry officer, and in 1827 married the Catholic Baroness Mathilde von Falkenstein . The marriage remained without offspring. Mrs. von Drais tried to raise poor children, was an active member of the Catholic community and knew the writer priest Alban Stolz , who also frequented her house. She died in 1858 and Alban Stolz remained on friendly terms with the widower.

Under his influence, Friedrich von Drais converted to the Catholic Church in March 1860. Both became close friends, traveled together and attended religious events such as the German Catholic Day in Aachen in 1862 .

Baron von Drais joined a religious group around Archbishop Hermann von Vicari and finally joined the Benedictine order in 1864. He became a monk in the Beuron Monastery, taking temporary vows in 1866 and perpetual vows in 1869 . He was entrusted with the office of cellar and he was called "Pater Pius" . He died here in Beuron in 1883; with him the noble family in the male line died out.

literature

  • David August Rosenthal : Convertite pictures from the nineteenth century. Volume 1, Part 3, pp. 444-447, Schaffhausen 1872.
  • Johannes Werner: The last Freiherr von Drais: on his 200th birthday. In: Badische Heimat . Volume 78, 1998, pp. 613–617.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ data page of the state bibliography of Baden-Württemberg, on the father
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon. 3rd volume, Leipzig 1861, p. 205; (Digital scan)
  3. ↑ Historisches Jahrbuch , Volume 42, 1922, p. 150, Görres-Gesellschaft ; (Detail scan)
  4. ↑ Inheritance and commission: Benedictine monthly . Volume 73, Erzabtei Beuron, 1997, p. 395 f .; (Detail scans)
personal data
SURNAME Drais, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drais von Sauerbronn, Friedrich Freiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden nobleman, civil servant and Benedictine
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Gernsbach
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1883
Place of death Beuron