Johann Georg Satzinger

Johann Georg Satzinger (* 1790 in Tayding (near Vilshofen ), † 1856 in Regensburg ) was a German lawyer and mayor of Regensburg.

Satzinger had attended a grammar school in Munich and graduated from high school there in 1810. After studying law at the Bavarian State University of Landshut , which was moved from Ingolstadt to Landshut in 1800 , he passed the legal state examination there in 1814 and passed the state bankruptcy (legal assessor examination ) in Munich in 1816 . He then worked as an assessor at various courts in Munich in 1817 and from 1818 as a town clerk in Schongau

In 1821 Satzinger became third and from 1834 first legally qualified magistrate in Regensburg. At this time he became the first author of a multi-volume contemporary city chronicle, which he kept until 1838 under the title “New Chronicle or Memorial Book of the Capital Regensburg. On the highest orders of His Majesty Ludwig I, King of Bavaria, laid out for the Magistrate Regensburg on October 1st, 1829 “After Satzinger, the chronicle was continued by Joseph Rudolf Schuegraf .

In October 1836, the liberal Gottlieb von Thon-Dittmer was elected mayor in Regensburg, succeeding the mayor Friedrich Brügel, who was little respected by the citizens , who was re-elected for life after three years and confirmed by the king. Since Thon-Dittmer did not want to limit himself to local politics, he also looked for a way into state politics and in 1845 advanced to the position of spokesman for the liberals in the chamber of state parliament members.

After the revolutionary unrest in Munich , Thon Dittmer was appointed curator of the State Ministry of the Interior by King Ludwig I in 1848 . Even after the king's abdication, he initially remained Minister of the Interior under the new King Maximilian II until his abdication on November 14, 1848. After that, he remained a member of the Bavarian State Council in Munich until his death in March 1853 .

During the absence of Thon-Dittmer, the legally qualified 1st Magistrate Councilor Satzinger provisionally managed the mayor's affairs and was thus a central person who remained in the background during the months of the revolution. Even if it was clear that the election of a new mayor was necessary, the majority of the community representatives were not ready to elect Satzinger as the new mayor. In an election in October 1849 he was defeated by the opposing candidate, the assessor Eduard Schwarz, with 17 to 18 votes. Satzinger attributed his defeat to his resolute advocacy of the freedom of trade, which would have annoyed the tradespeople operating in the city. However, Satzinger's liberal views on freedom of trade were opposed to his strongly conservative views on political and constitutional issues, which he often made the basis of his decisions. With regard to the outcome of the election, the Ministry of the Interior in Munich followed the assessment of the district government and rather blamed the strong religious differences in the city for the outcome of the election, because as long as Catholic circles in the city insisted on the election of the Catholic Satzinger, his election would be did not succeed in the Protestant Regensburg. Therefore the Ministry of the Interior in Munich did not accept the election result with the defeat of Satzinger, however the majority elected candidate Eduard Schwarz refused to accept the election result. On February 10, 1849, there was a second ballot in which Satzinger was elected to succeed Thon-Dittmer with 24 of 35 votes. The king confirmed the election and three years later also the re-election. In 1856, Satzinger retired at his own request and died in Regensburg in August of the same year.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Albrecht: Regensburg im Wandel, studies on the history of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Museums and Archives of the City of Regensburg (Hrsg.): Studies and sources on the history of Regensburg . tape 2 . Mittelbayerische Druckerei und Verlags-Gesellschaft mbH, Regensburg 1984, ISBN 3-921114-11-X , p. 133, 241 .
2. ↑ Dieter Albrecht: Regensburg im Wandel, studies on the history of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Museums and Archives of the City of Regensburg (Hrsg.): Studies and sources on the history of Regensburg . tape 2 . Mittelbayerische Druckerei und Verlags-Gesellschaft mbH, Regensburg 1984, ISBN 3-921114-11-X , p. 117 ff., 118, 133 .