Georg Dessauer

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Georg Dessauer , from 1837 to 1859 von Dessauer , (born September 19, 1795 in Königshofen (Baden) as Nathan Dessauer ; † January 8, 1870 in Kochel am See ) was a Bavarian lawyer.

Georg Dessauer was the son of the Jewish businessman Aron Baruch Dessauer, later Alois Dessauer , who became Catholic with his family in 1805. From 1811 to 1813 he studied in Aschaffenburg , where his father had meanwhile moved, in 1814 in Würzburg . From 1817 to 1823 he worked as an intern and assessor at courts in Aschaffenburg , Munich and Neuburg an der Donau , and from 1823 to 1827 as a regional court assessor in Obernburg am Main . From 1827 to 1830 he was a lawyer in Neuburg an der Donau, then from 1830 to 1856 in Munich. Here he also worked as legal advisor to the Bavarian royal family, the court and state library , the St. Anna women's monastery and the Eremitenfonds of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising .

As a “real Hofrat ”, King Ludwig I of Bavaria raised him to hereditary nobility on March 31, 1837 (Georg von Dessauer), but withdrew his title of court advisor and nobility again in 1859 because of forging documents; he was sentenced to six years in prison.

On September 21, 1823 he married in Schwenningen Ludovica (Luise) Theresia Eleonora Catherine of Linder (* 3-4 November 1805 in Straubing;. † 3 September 1892 in Kochel), daughter of the Appeals Council Franz Xaver von Linder, landowners in Schwenningen , and Eleonora Knorr (1787–1866) from Dachau. From this marriage 11 children were born.

In 1836 he acquired the Aspenstein Castle estate in Kochel as a country estate, where he lived permanently from 1863. In 1838 he founded the graphic company Caspar Braun & v. As a partner and financier with Kaspar Braun . Dessauer, institute for wood cutting art , from 1843 Braun & Schneider publishing house . In 1850 he became a co-heir of his father's colored paper factory in Aschaffenburg, from which he left in 1855 with a severance payment.

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  1. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria 1837, p. 319 .
  2. ^ Theodor Schön: ennobled Jewish families . Salzburg 1891, p. 19.