Johann Georg Feßmaier

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Johann Georg Feßmaier , later von Feßmaier , (also Fessmaier or Feßmayr ; born January 12, 1775 in Staufersbuch ; † March 27, 1828 in Munich ) was a German legal scholar , historian and administrative officer .

Life

Training and activity as a university lecturer

Feßmaier was the son of a farmer . After he had completed his first lessons in the family and at the local school, the pastor in charge was certain of the boy's talent. He therefore organized both financial support and a place at the secondary schools in Amberg . There he went through, among other things, from October 1786 the Amberg high school as well as the philosophical courses of the local lyceum . He is said to have belonged to the best pupils and students. In the autumn of 1794 he moved to the University of Ingolstadt to study law , where he was granted a scholarship . During the lecture-free time , he sat in on a regional court. Among his most important academic teachers was the court councilor and constitutional law teacher Johann Gottfried Krenner . He received his licentiate in law in Ingolstadt on May 23, 1797.

Feßmaier then went to Munich. There he worked for a court lawyer and devoted himself to further study of law and history. He was also employed by the court chamber councilor, Count Joseph August von Toerring, as a law teacher for his son. Trying to get a job in the state administration, failed at first, but it was recognized at the court in his right successor for the Munich called Carl Sebastian Heller of Heller Mountain . On 20 May 1799 he was as an associate professor used for baierisches State Law and baierische history at the University of Ingolstadt, the Doctor of Laws (Dr. iur. Utr.) PhD and on 25 November the same year, on the recommendation of his predecessor, promoted to full professor of law and councilor.

Feßmaier moved with the university to Landshut in 1800. At the new University of Landshut , he also took over the teaching of auxiliary historical sciences for Johann Nepomuk Mederer, who remained in Ingolstadt . He was also university archivist , Senator at the University and Dean of the Faculty of Law. In addition, he held other administrative offices, so he was a member of the Landshut War Commission in the French period and commissioner of the university at the police headquarters in Landshut. Since he had acquired good French during his studies, he could, if necessary, enter into exchange in these positions with the French generals .

Activity as an administrative officer

Feßmaier, who was interested in a job with the government early on in his career, was lucky that his predecessor at the university and friend Heller von Hellersberg worked in the government but wanted to return to the university. With his appointment to the Real State Board of Directors on June 11, 1804, he again succeeded Heller von Hellersberg. As a recipient of the city's constitutions, he was also the city commissioner for the capital and residence of Munich from October 23, 1804. He turned out to be a skilled administrative officer in the ruling crisis years, which put him in a good position for his further career.

After Bavaria was divided into districts, Feßmaier became fourth district councilor in addition to his official duties on August 25, 1808, and after the reform on October 11, 1810, second district councilor in the government of the Isar district . On February 14, 1815 he was appointed Oberfinanzrat in the tax and domains section. After the dismissal of the minister and reformer Maximilian von Montgelas , he was promoted to Ministerialrat in the Ministry of Finance on March 12, 1817 . He also became a member of the Bavarian State Council's commission for mixed cases. In this position he remained until his transfer to the retirement in 1826. He initially enjoyed good health and died unexpectedly in the second year of his retirement.

Honors

Feßmaier became an honorary member in 1801 and a full frequenting member of the historical class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1818 . In addition, after 1824 he received the Knight's Cross of the Civil Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown and was personally elevated to the nobility .

Works (selection)

  • Attempt of a pragmatic state history of the Upper Palatinate since it was called Upper Palatinate. 2 volumes. Lentner, Munich 1799–1801.
  • Diplomatic sketch from the old Vitzthum office in Lengenfeld. 1800.
  • Outline of the Bavarian constitutional law. Ingolstadt 1801.
  • Outline of the historical auxiliary sciences. Landshut 1802.
  • History of Bavaria. 2 volumes, Krüll, Landshut 1804.
  • Stephan the Elder Duke of Bavaria, defended against Johannes von Müller because of the loss of the County of Tyrol. Lindauer, Munich 1817.
  • About the emergence and flourishing of the Upper German city federation and its fight and destruction by Friederich von Landshut, Count Palatine near Rhine, Duke in Baiern. Lentner, Munich 1819.

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SURNAME Feßmaier, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feßmaier, Johann Georg von (full name); Fessmaier, Johann Georg; Feßmayr, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, historian and administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Staufersbuch
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1828
Place of death Munich