Heinrich von Frauendorfer

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Heinrich von Frauendorfer

Heinrich Frauendorfer , knight of Frauendorfer since 1901 , (born September 27, 1855 in Höll , † July 23, 1921 in Geiselgasteig ) was a German ministerial official and Minister of Transport in the Kingdom of Bavaria and in the early days of the Free State of Bavaria .

Life

family

He was the son of the teacher Franz Xaver Frauendorfer and his wife Franziska, née Bauer. Frauendorfer married Helene Mühlthaler on October 14, 1893 . The marriage produced a son.

Career

After graduating from high school in 1874, Frauendorfer studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After graduating, he entered the service of the Bavarian State Railways . Here he worked until August 1, 1899, most recently as a councilor to the general management. Frauendorfer was then appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a senior councilor . Since August 1, 1900 Ministerialrat , Frauendorfer was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown on October 21, 1901 for his services . This was connected with the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Frauendorfer after the entry in the nobility register .

From January 1, 1904 until his retirement on February 12, 1912, he was Minister of State of the newly established Ministry of Transport in Bavaria and was instrumental in the electrification of the railways in Bavaria. For his services Frauendorfer had meanwhile been raised to the hereditary nobility on September 14, 1908 by Prince Regent Luitpold . Since 1905 he was also an honorary citizen of the city of Landshut. From 1910 to 1912 Frauendorfer was Bavaria's representative to the Federal Council (German Reich) .

In 1916 Frauendorfer and Edgar Jaffé founded the European State and Business Newspaper , which one of Jaffé's brothers published in Berlin. From November 8, 1918 to March 17, 1919 and from March 16 to April 1, 1920 he was again Bavarian State Minister for Transport Affairs in the state governments led by Prime Ministers Kurt Eisner and Gustav Ritter von Kahr . In 1919/20 he was also the Bavarian representative to the Reichsrat . This was followed by his appointment as State Secretary and Head of the Bavarian Department in the Reich Ministry of Transport .

Frauendorfer was a member of the Corps Makaria Munich (1874) and Teutonia Halle (1903). He became engaged to Alma Wild, the daughter of his corps brother Albert Wild . She died before getting married. Introduced to numismatics by Wild , Frauendorfer was chairman of the Bavarian Numismatic Society. When he was accused of counterfeiting numerous ancient coins, he committed suicide in 1921.

Works

See also

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : The Reichsrat - Representation of the German states in the legislation and administration of the Reich 1919–1934. A biographical manual . Droste Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7700-5279-0 , p. 75.
  • Minister of State v. Frauendorfer. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 52, No. 15 (February 24, 1912), pp. 243–246.
  • Excellency von Frauendorfer †. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 61, No. 30 (July 28, 1921), pp. 575-576.
  • Max Spindler (Hrsg.), Walter Schärl: The composition of the Bavarian civil service from 1806 to 1918. Verlag Michael Lassleben. Kallmütz / Opf. 1955, p. 93.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moritz Julius Bonn : This is how you make history. Balance of a life. List, Munich 1953, p. 182.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 112 , 220; 65 , 282.
personal data
SURNAME Frauendorfer, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frauendorfer, Heinrich Ritter von (full name); Frauendorfer, Heinrich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, railway specialist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Höll , Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1921
Place of death Geiselgasteig