Gustav von Hohe

Georg Gustav von Hohe 1800–1872

Georg Gustav Hohe , since 1849 Ritter von Hohe (born May 16, 1800 in Bayreuth , † January 11, 1872 in Munich ) was a Bavarian administrative officer.

Life

Gustav High, son of the painter Johann High (1774-1847), studied at the Erlangen University Law . In 1820 he became a member of the Baruthia Corps . In 1820 and 1821 he received grants (scholarships) from the university. After completing his studies (1824) and the "state bankruptcy" (1825), he entered the Bavarian civil service. In 1830 he became district court actuary in Kemnath and in the same year district court assessor in Wolfratshausen, 1832 police commissioner in Munich, in 1834 government assessor in the government of the Lower Danube district and there in 1837 a councilor. In 1846 he was promoted to government director at the government in Upper Franconia with headquarters in Bayreuth , in 1847 transferred to the same function in the government of the Upper Palatinate and in 1849 in the government of Lower Franconia in Aschaffenburg.

After the Palatinate uprising , von Hohe was appointed regional president of the Rhine District in Speyer in 1850 . As President of the Government, after the democracy and independence efforts of 1849, he vehemently advocated the restoration of the authoritarian state. In 1866 he became President of the Government of Lower Bavaria and retired in 1871.

On July 7, 1849, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , combined with the personal nobility title of "Knight of High", and in 1858 he was accepted into the nobility register with the award of the Commander's Cross. On the occasion of the opening of the Paris - Strasbourg railway line in 1852 and an associated diplomatic mission - he presented Prince Napoleon , President of the French Republic, with a letter from King Maximilian I - he received the Commander's Cross of the French Legion of Honor and the Commander's Cross, 1st Class of the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous , in 1855 the Prussian Eagle Order, 2nd class . On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Ludwig II awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of St. Michael in 1871 (before his official retirement) .

On October 1, 1833, Georg Gustav Hohe, royal police commissioner, married Franziska Anna Maria Rosina von Rudhart (1812–1857), the daughter of Ignaz von Rudhart , the district president of the Danube District in Passau , in Munich . The marriage resulted in three sons (including Gustav and Adolph) and two daughters (one of them Bertha, married Freiin von Ditfurth).

literature

• Walter Schärl: The composition of the Bavarian civil service from 1806-1918 (Munich historical studies, department Bavarian history 1). Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, 300. (Rr from) HOHE.
• Annemarie Liebler: History of the Government of Lower Bavaria , Chapter 8.8 Georg Gustav von Höhe (1866 to 1877) , 2008, p. 69 ff. ( Digitized extract )

Web links

• Entry on Gustav von Hohe in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 37/170
2. ↑ General intelligence sheet for the Kingdom of Bavaria, XLI. Piece, Munich, November 25, 1820, column 931: Georg Hohe from Bayreuty 50 fl.
3. ^ Government and Intelligence Journal for the Kingdom of Baiern, No. 31, Munich, September 26, 1821, p. 654: Gustav Hohe, Candidate of Jurisprudence: 50 fl.
4. ↑ Administrative district Palatinate administrative history and regional president on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke)
5. ↑ ad in "Kourir on the Danube", no. 240, Passau [sic], 10 October 1833
6. ↑ Der Bayerische Landbote, Munich, October 17, 1833, p. 1332