Gabriel Bernhard von Widder

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District President Gabriel Bernhard von Widder, contemporary engraving.

Gabriel Bernhard von Widder , sometimes also Gabriel Bernard von Widder (born October 20, 1774 in Mannheim , Electoral Palatinate , † February 21, 1831 in Munich ), was the son of the well-known Palatinate historian and topographer Johann Goswin Widder and a senior Bavarian administrative officer; He was, among other things, from 1819 to 1831 District President of Upper Bavaria in Munich.

Life

Gabriel Bernhard Widder was born in Mannheim as one of the three sons of the Palatinate Bavarian civil servant and local historian Johann Goswin Widder and his wife Maria Katharina Cetti. The family lived in the Palatinate until 1780 and then moved to Munich for their father's professional reasons. Here the young clergyman and later Munich Auxiliary Bishop Franz Ignaz von Streber became his private tutor and educator; he was also the father's private secretary. Gabriel Bernhard Widder attended the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich until 1790 , then the University of Heidelberg , where he devoted himself to law and camera studies, which he completed at the University of Ingolstadt .

Grave of Gabriel von Widders in the old southern cemetery in Munich

The father had meanwhile returned to the Electoral Palatinate . The son, Gabriel Bernhard Widder, turned to the capital and royal seat of Munich, where he took up the legal profession. The young man's abilities were quickly recognized and he was finally transferred to Ebersberg as district judge . There he devoted himself particularly to the upbringing and education of young people, for which he was publicly praised in the government gazette 1803 (page 260). He was just as eager to deal with the poor, with the electoral government finding out about Widders' exemplary activity and decreeing parts of his measures as the norm for all Bavarian regional courts with an instruction of November 23, 1804.

In August 1803 Widder had been promoted to the "General State Directorate Council" in Munich, and in 1804 he was sent to the State Directorate in Bamberg as a "Conducting Council" . Here in 1805 the official advanced to the position of "Government Director" and in 1806 switched to the government of the now Bavarian Tyrol in Innsbruck . On May 19, 1808, Maximilian I awarded Joseph Widder the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , associated with personal nobility, for his achievements in this difficult post .

In the same year the state government appointed him to the financial administration in Munich. There he worked out important reports and provisions on war finances and the formation of the Bavarian Gendarmerie Corps. In 1817 Gabriel Bernhard Widder came to Regensburg as deputy regional president , and on October 30th of that year he took over the same position in the government of Upper Bavaria in Munich. On December 1, 1819, King Max I Joseph appointed him district president and head of civil administration in Upper Bavaria, and in 1822 he became a state councilor. On October 16, 1820, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown. King Ludwig I held Aries in high esteem, appointed him to the Imperial Council of the Crown of Bavaria in 1825, immediately after his accession to the throne, and awarded him the rare Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown. In the Bavarian Government Gazette 1826, sheet 63, Ritter von Widder was again publicly praised and recognized by the king.

At the age of 57, the quite stout district president suffered a stroke on February 19, 1831, from which he died three days later.

Family and offspring

Gabriel Bernhard von Widder was married to Anna Maria nee von Bonin . Her son Anton von Widder (1809-1893) was the second (legally qualified) mayor of Munich from 1854 to 1870. At the German Katholikentag in Munich in 1861, Anton von Widder was one of the honorary members of the assembly.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gabriel Bernhard Widder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Text Scan to action by Franz Ignaz nerds in the house of Aries, from "Contributions to the History of the Diocese of Regensburg" , Volume 23-24, 1989, page 556
  2. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 191.
  3. ^ Biographical website for Anton von Widder in Munich Wiki
  4. ↑ Text scan from “Urban planning in the 19th century: the example of Munich up to the Theodor Fischer era” , by Stefan Fisch, Oldenbourg Verlag, 1988
  5. ↑ Book scan from the commemorative publication for the Munich Katholikentag 1861, mentioning Anton von Widder as an honorary member
personal data
SURNAME Widder, Gabriel Bernhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aries, Gabriel Bernard from; Aries, Gabriel Bernard; Aries, Gabriel Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian civil servant, district president of Upper Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1831
Place of death Munich