Johann Georg von Aretin

Johann Georg von Aretin, lithograph by Franz Hanfstaengl

Johann Georg Josef Karl Maria Freiherr von Aretin (born March 29, 1770 in Ingolstadt , Bavaria ; † January 30, 1845 in Mendorferbuch , district of Amberg , Upper Palatinate ) was a Bavarian civil servant, lawyer and economist . Through his work About mountain falls and the means to prevent them or at least reduce their harmfulness (1808) he is considered a pioneer of torrent control .

origin

His parents were Karl Albert von Aretin (* 1741) and his wife Maria Anna Rosina, b. Noble von Weinbach (* 1747). He was the older brother of the lawyer and publicist Johann Christoph Freiherr von Aretin .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1786 at (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich and the subsequent basic studies (= philosophy) at the Lyceum there, he studied law at the University of Heidelberg and in 1793 became administrator of the Donaumoos Court ( Schrobenhausen ?). His "file-like Donaumooskulturgeschichte" , which Aretin recorded as a civil servant, is an important source for the history of the Donaumooses, which at the time was drained at the behest of Elector Karl Theodor in order to make the largest Bavarian fen for agricultural use.

In 1796 von Aretin was appointed court chamber councilor and in 1799 director of the state administration in Amberg . Aretin supported the reforms of Montgela by publishing a magazine entitled Der Genius von Bayern under Maximilian IV from 1801 to 1804, supported by his publisher von Seidel . Their task was to put the earlier grievances in state and public life in clear contrast to the reforms of Montgela.

In 1806 he became a road and hydraulic engineering inspector in the Bavarian occupied Tyrol . When the Tyrolean uprising broke out there in 1809 , he became General Commissioner of the Eisack district in Brixen (today South Tyrol ). He was captured by Austria and taken to Hungary .

After his release in 1810 he received the fiefdom Mendorferbuch (today a district of the Hohenburg market in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach ) and an annual annuity from the Bavarian King Maximilian I for his services . From then on, Aretin devoted himself to the sciences, arts and agriculture on his estates.

family

He was married to the baroness Henriette Teuffel von Birkensee (born April 29, 1775, † May 6, 1839), from whom he acquired the Hofmark Winbuch in 1814 . The couple have two sons and three daughters, including:

Karl Albert Wilhelm (born August 3, 1798; † July 20, 1846), Appellate Judge ⚭ Maria Josepha von Kerstorf (born October 26, 1806; † February 14, 1891)
Philipp Wilhelm Ludwig (* December 18, 1799) ⚭ 1830 Countess Franziska Drechsel von Deusstetten (* April 5, 1804)
Sophie Henriette Katharina Bartholomäa (* June 18, 1810 - June 19, 1893) ⚭ February 28, 1843 Count Pawel Dmitrijewitsch Tolstoy (1797–1875)
Ludovica Sophia Henrica (born October 9, 1802) ⚭ 1834 Baron Karl von Lindenfels , major general and commandant of Nuremberg

Works

Customs and Customs in the Erding District Court (1790) , in: Erdinger Land, Volume 19, pages 77-87, 2001.
The Genius of Bavaria under Maximilian IV , magazine, published 1801 to 1804.

literature

Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin: Aretin, Johann Georg Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 348 f. ( Digitized version ).
William Löbe: Aretin, Georg Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 519.
R. Rösler: Johann Georg Freiherr von Aretin (1771–1845) - pioneer of torrent control . For the 150th anniversary of his death.
Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1856 p.11 , 1865 p.14f .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ History of torrent control
^ Max Leitschu: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 2, p. 179.
↑ cf. on this Sepp Lösch: The personality of JE v. Seidels . Article in: Festschrift for the 950th anniversary of the city of Sulzbach-Rosenberg , Sulzbach-Rosenberg 1976.
^ Bavarian State Assembly Chamber (2): Negotiations of the Second Chamber of the State Assembly of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Volume 1 . JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Munich 1827, p. 268 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Aretin, Johann Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bavarian civil servant, lawyer and national economist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ingolstadt , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH	January 30, 1845
Place of death	Mendorferbuch , Amberg district , Upper Palatinate

[1] History of torrent control

[2] Max Leitschu: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 2, p. 179.

[3] . on this Sepp Lösch: The personality of JE v. Seidels . Article in: Festschrift for the 950th anniversary of the city of Sulzbach-Rosenberg , Sulzbach-Rosenberg 1976.

[4] Bavarian State Assembly Chamber (2): Negotiations of the Second Chamber of the State Assembly of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Volume 1 . JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Munich 1827, p. 268 ( limited preview in Google Book search).