Johann Baptist Hofer (lawyer)

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Johann Baptist Joseph Karl Hofer , from 1819 "von Hofer" , (born March 16, 1759 in Rottweil , † December 21, 1838 in Konstanz ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Johann Baptist Hofer studied in Freiburg and Vienna . After his work at the Reichshofrat in Vienna, he entered the “communal” service for the first time as Reichsschultheiss in the imperial city of Zell am Harmersbach .

From 1782 he entered the service of his hometown Rottweil as a councilor and later as court judge. He quickly became the leading head of the city, already in 1793 he tried in vain to the reactivation of the relationship of the city to the Confederation to the media coverage avert Rottweil had since 1519 facing location in Switzerland. He rose to the highest office in the city: from 1796–1802 he alternated between office and mayor each year. At the end of the century he was called by the imperial city of Weil der Stadt to reform the city constitution. The first excavations of the Roman settlement Arae Flaviae in Rottweil also go back to his initiative.

After the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , or from 1802 after the mediatization of his hometown, which he could not prevent, he entered the service of the Grand Duchy of Baden , as a privy councilor, councilor of state, director of the finance ministry (finance minister 1809) and finally in 1809 as director of the lake district Constancy. He published numerous political works in the spirit of Josephinism . In 1819 he was raised to hereditary nobility because of his services.

He was married to Eva Maria Hofer (born 1871, died 1804 in Rottweil), his second marriage in 1819 was Maria Anna von Pflimmern .

literature

  • Carl von Langen : Contributions to the history of the city of Rotweil. Rottweil 1821.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joachim Brüser: Findbuch 69 von Hofer March 2012. In: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved July 26, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hofer, Johann Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofer, Johann Baptist Joseph Karl (full name); Hofer, Johann Baptist von (since 1819)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottweil
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1838
Place of death Constancy