Heinrich von Thelemann

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Justice Minister Thelemann in the Bavarian state parliament
Award certificate for the King Ludwig Cross , 1917, with Thelemann's facsimile signature. Attached is a visiting card from the minister with handwritten congratulations.

Heinrich Thelemann , from 1899 Knight von Thelemann (born December 15, 1851 in Aschaffenburg , † February 2, 1923 in Munich ) was a lawyer , judge and last Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Bavaria .

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Thelemann was the son of the appellate judge Friedrich Johann Thelemann, attended high school in Aschaffenburg and took an active part in the campaign of 1870/71 . Thelemann completed a law degree at the universities of Würzburg and Munich , then entered the Bavarian civil service and became an assessor in 1876 . In 1879 he was promoted to magistrate in the Ministry of Justice, in 1885 to secret secretary and in 1896 to ministerial councilor . In 1899 Thelemann received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , combined with the personal title of nobility. In 1902 he was appointed to the Imperial Council of the Crown of Bavaria for life.

In 1902 Thelemann became President of the Munich Higher Regional Court , and in 1910 President of the Supreme Regional Court , the highest court in the Kingdom of Bavaria. In February 1912, Prince Regent Luitpold appointed Heinrich von Thelemann as Bavarian State Minister of Justice, in which office he remained until the end of the monarchy in 1918. In 1913 he was raised to hereditary nobility. He is considered a typical representative of the Bavarian ministerial bureaucracy, which is close to national liberalism. He was the only Protestant in Prime Minister Georg von Hertling's cabinet .

As Minister of Justice in 1912/13, Thelemann played an important role in efforts to end the reign in Bavaria. The Hertling government jointly pursued the goal of elevating Luitpold's son Ludwig to king after Luitpold's death and thus concluding the reign that had existed for Otto , who had fallen ill since 1886 . The way was controversial in the government: Hertling and Maximilian von Soden-Fraunhofen , who argued legitimistically , advocated a unilateral proclamation of the king so as not to harm the monarchical principle , Thelemann, on the other hand, considered this way to be unconstitutional. Thanks to a legal opinion from his house ( Unzner report ), Thelemann succeeded in setting the entire government on his line at the meeting of the Council of Ministers on December 11, 1912 (one day before Luitpold's death). The project initially failed because of the central faction in the Chamber of Deputies , who did not want to go along with the constitutional amendment, so that Ludwig, whom Thelemann had convinced of the need for a consensus between the bourgeois parties, initially succeeded as Prince Regent. But when parts of the legal opinion of December 1912 appeared in the press in autumn 1913, the government, in coordination with Ludwig, took the initiative again and this time also won the center faction. The reign was ended at the end of October and beginning of November 1913 by means of a constitutional amendment on the path pursued by Thelemann and Ludwig was made king.

Since 1886 Heinrich von Thelemann was married to Julie Fäustle, the daughter of his predecessor Johann Nepomuk von Fäustle .

In Munich, Thelemannstrasse is named after the politician.

literature

  • Walter Schärl: The composition of the Bavarian civil service from 1806 to 1918. 1955, p. 114 (detail scan ) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Löffler : The Bavarian Chamber of Reichsräte 1848 to 1918. Fundamentals, composition, politics. Munich 1996, p. 619.
  2. ^ Karl Bosl : Bayern in Umbruch: The revolution of 1918, its conditions, its course and its consequences , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1969, p. 269, ISBN 3486819089 ; (Digital scan) .
  3. ↑ Michael Kotulla : German Constitutional Law 1806–1918: A collection of documents with introductions , Volume 2, p. 359, Springer Verlag, ISBN 3540294953 ; (Digital scan) .
  4. ^ Bernhard Löffler: The Bavarian Chamber of Reichsräte 1848 to 1918. Fundamentals, composition, politics. Munich 1996, pp. 539-549.
  5. ↑ Website on Thelemannstrasse , accessed on May 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Thelemann, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thelemann, Heinrich Ritter von (full name); Thelemann, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian lawyer and minister of justice
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1923
Place of death Munich