Hermann von Pfaff
Hermann Pfaff , from 1896 Ritter von Pfaff (born August 20, 1846 in Nuremberg , † November 27, 1933 in Munich ), was a Bavarian lawyer and ministerial official , most recently Bavarian State Minister of Finance.
origin
His parents were the high school teacher Siegfried Pfaff and his wife Julia, née Nees von Esenbeck (1819–1887), a daughter of the natural philosopher Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck .
Life
Pfaff attended high school in Schweinfurt and then studied in Erlangen and Leipzig law . During his studies in 1863 he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity . In 1870 he passed the 2nd state examination, in the same year and the following year he was a participant in the Franco-German War . He then gained professional experience with lawyers and joined the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice in 1876. In 1888 he was appointed chief accountant and in 1890 senior government councilor . From 1892 to 1898 he also worked as a Crown Attorney .
In 1896, Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown . With the award the elevation to the personal nobility was connected and he was allowed to call himself "Ritter von Pfaff" after the entry in the nobility register . In 1910 he received the Grand Cross for this medal.
From 1906 to 1916 he was Otto's curator of Bavaria . At the height of his career in the Bavarian ministerial bureaucracy, he became Bavarian State Minister of Finance on November 3, 1904. He held this office until February 11, 1912 and then retired. He was also an agent for the Federal Council in Berlin.
Honors
- 1906: Hereditary nobility
- Prussian Order of the Red Eagle 1st class
- House-Knight-Order of Saint Hubertus , Capitular
- Austrian Order of the Iron Crown II class
- Honorary doctorate (Dr. iur. Hc)
- He is an honorary citizen of the city of Bad Reichenhall .
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , p. 305.
Web links
- House of Bavarian History: People Biographies from Bavaria, Hermann Ritter von Pfaff, www.hdbg.eu , accessed December 28, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria. 1914, p. 19.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfaff, Hermann von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pfaff, Hermann Ritter von (full name); Pfaff, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian lawyer and minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1933 |
| Place of death | Munich |