Georg Peter Maurer

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Gravestone of Georg Peter Maurer in Meckesheim

Georg Peter Maurer (born February 20, 1730 in Meckesheim ; † March 21, 1815 ibid) was from 1781 to 1814 of the Electoral Palatinate and Baden Oberamt schultheiß from Meckesheim and in his office he also influenced state affairs. He was known far beyond Meckesheim and was considered an "almost legendary figure in the Palatinate" at the beginning of the 19th century.

Life

Maurer was an important landowner and in his time the richest citizen of Meckesheim. At the age of 51 he came as a believer in the community as mayor in the Heidelberg Oberamt , which he held until he was 84. Maurer was also tithe alderman and managed the war chest of Meckenheimer centering until its dissolution 1,803th

Maurer led Meckesheim with a powerful but also hard hand. So the Lobbach dam was built under Maurer between 1803 and 1807, which protected the village from the regular floods of the Lobbach . However, in order to save the community treasury, Maurer had this construction project carried out by laboring the villagers, which contributed to its unpopularity. During the coalition wars , Maurer was on friendly terms with the French General Ney , who at the time was living with his troops in the neighboring village of Zuzenhausen , which later earned him the charge of collaboration .

In the paperback for the patriotic history of 1842, however, Maurer is described positively. He exerted significant influence on state affairs. As a "strong and discreet " clerk and central judge , Maurer worked for many years as a judge, adviser and benefactor for the benefit of his subordinates . In retrospect, Maurer's picture is therefore contradictory.

family

His wife was Maria Barbara, b. Welcker (also written as Welker; * January 9, 1732, † April 19, 1784). Their son, Johann Konrad Maurer (1753–1832), was a pastor in Erpolzheim and Kirchheim near Heidelberg . His grandson, son of the pastor, Georg Ludwig von Maurer was an important legal historian and Bavarian statesman. In Heidelberg the theologian Johann Friedrich Abegg and the chemist Leopold Gmelin became the husbands of his granddaughters, the daughters of the pastor. His daughter Susanna Margarete (1766-1830) was the wife of his successor in office, the Meckesheimer Schultheiss and member of the Baden state parliament, Jakob Friedrich Rausmüller .

Afterlife

Georg Peter Maurer's house in today's Bahnhofstrasse 24 in Meckesheim

While the inscription on his tombstone praises Maurer's work, “old Schulz” is said to have been unpopular and feared by the citizens of Meckesheim. His idiosyncrasy is still a legend today. There is a tradition that the coffin was suspiciously light at Maurer's funeral , and that Schulz watched his own funeral procession from the roof window of his house . After his death, the fear that the old mayor bricklayer was still walking around in the attic of his house as a restless ghost with his head under his arm lingered well into the 20th century . Maurer had his house in today's Bahnhofstrasse. 24 built. In its day it was the "Badischer Hof", an inn with a butcher's shop.

In Irma von Drygalski's historically well-founded novel The Peasant Prophet , Georg Peter Maurer appears as a sharply drawn counter-figure to the protagonist .

literature

  • Doris Ebert : The conductor family Heiliger zu Kloster Lobenfeld, the mayor family Maurer from Meckesheim and their descendants . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , vol. 18 (2003), pp. 165–186.
  • Friedrich Zimmermann: Local history of the Kraichgaudorfes Meckesheim . Edited by the Mecklenburg community, 1937, pp. 123–124.
  • 300 years of inns and businesses in Meckesheim . Published by the Mecklenburg community, 2009.
  • Irma von Drygalski : The peasant prophet. Roman from the Palatinate . P. Braus, Heidelberg 1928 (historical novel).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Zimmermann: Ortsgeschichte des Kraichgaudorfes Meckesheim, 1937, Ed. Gemeinde Meckesheim, pp. 123–124
  2. ↑ Joseph von Hormayr (ed.): Taschenbuch für die vaterländische Geschichte , vol. 23 (1842), pp. 432–433.
  3. ^ Karl Dickopf: Georg Ludwig von Maurer 1790–1872 (Munich Historical Studies. Department of Modern History 4), Kallmünz 1960, p. 1.
  4. ^ Karl Dickopf: King Ludwig I and State Councilor Georg Ludwig von Maurer. A contribution to the history of the Vormärz in Bavaria . In: Journal for Bavarian State History , vol. 29 (1966), pp. 157–198, here p. 162.
  5. ^ Ortschronik by Friedrich Zimmermann: "1815: On March 21, 1815 the well-known mayor Gg died here. Peter Maurer. He reached the age of 85 years. He was a rich farmer who at that time had lent the community 2000 florins capital. When the mayor Kilian was close to death, Maurer proposed himself to the community as mayor, with the remark that if they did not make him a schoolboy, he would cancel the 2,000 florins. Bad or good, just at that time the community did not have the means to pay back the capital to the bricklayer. So you just chose him to shoulder. But this was seen reluctantly by the various parishioners. "
  6. ^ Friedrich Zimmermann: Local history of the Kraichgaudorfes Meckesheim, 1937, published by the community of Meckesheim
  7. ^ Ortschronik by Friedrich Zimmermann: "The mayor Keitel from Zuzenhausen was held captive by this monster and had to endure all kinds of abuse in the French prison. But the Meckesheimer Schulz, who was on friendly terms with General Ney, did not care in the least. ”According to Doris Ebert, p. 169, it should be more correct that Keitel, as mayor, raised a war treasury claim that Maurer did not bring about for his place wrongly refused, as was later established in court.
  8. ↑ Joseph von Hormayr (ed.): Taschenbuch für die vaterländische Geschichte , vol. 23 (1842), p. 432.
  9. ↑ Maurer, Georg Peter. In: Helmut G. Haasis: Dawn of the Republic: the German democrats on the left bank of the Rhine 1789–1849 (= Ullstein materials, Bd. 35199). Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-548-35199-9 , p. 223 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  10. ↑ Maurer, Johann Konrad. Index entry: German biography .
  11. ↑ Doris Ebert: The conductor family Heiliger zu Kloster Lobenfeld, the mayor family Maurer from Meckesheim and their descendants . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , vol. 18 (2003), p. 169.
  12. ^ Community of Meckesheim: 300 years of inns and economy in Meckesheim , 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Maurer, Georg Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden Oberamtsschultheiß
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Meckesheim
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1815
Place of death Meckesheim