Johann Josef Adrians

Johann Josef Adrians (* 1756 ; † May 24, 1827 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German politician and from 1806 to 1824 the first Lord Mayor of Freiburg. He was also a member of the Baden state parliament.

Life

Johann Josef Adrians married to Walburga, born Faber, was Freiburg city councilor since 1788. In 1806, elected mayor of Freiburg by the guilds according to the city charter of 1520 , the government in Karlsruhe confirmed Adrian's office after the fall of the Breisgau to the Electorate of Baden and awarded him the title of Lord Mayor. However, the now applicable Baden municipal code restricted the municipal self-government of Freiburg considerably. A city ​​director appointed by the government , for whose post Adrian applied in vain in 1807 , had the say , especially since his work as Lord Mayor did not earn him a pension.

During Adrian's term of office, the establishment of the municipal theater in the former Augustinian Church and the incorporation of the Wiehre in 1825.

Political activity

Many Freiburg residents could not come to terms with the transition from the Breisgau to Baden and mourned the "mild hand" of the House of Austria. After all, the Zähringian roots of the Baden family had to serve, as Johann Georg Jacobi put it : "The shields that have been separated for centuries are reuniting" in order to marry the Protestant north of Baden with the Catholic Breisgau. It was these common roots that Lord Mayor Andrians once more endeavored in his closing address on June 30, 1806 on the Münsterplatz on the occasion of the swearing-in of the city on Elector Karl Friedrich : "We, the Freyburgers, have vowed our devotion to the most worthy descendant of that high Zähringen tribe, to which our old community owes its foundation, its equipment, its permanent municipal constitution, the previously honorable name of the Breisgau capital, and this eternally speaking monument of prince's greatness and love, the temple (the minster), in front of which we stand here Has." A year later, the Bertoldsbrunnen was inaugurated in Freiburg as a sign of loyalty .

When Napoleon's defeat became apparent and the Allied troops marched through the city with their crowned heads, the Freiburg residents received the Austrian Emperor Franz I effusively. Karl von Rotteck stoked the fire in an anonymous leaflet: "Men and women, children and old people cried, strangers embraced like friends, strangers became brothers!" In anticipation of reunification, the Freiburg Mint already minted a medal with the inscriptions: "In memory of the reunification: Breisgau with Oestreich. Freyburg 1815" with a bust of Franz I on a pedestal "Loyalty and love". In the base is carved: "Our wishes are fulfilled."

Now it turns out that Adrian's speech in 1806 was a political one, and not an affirmation of the heart. When the emperor stopped in Basel on his return trip from Paris to Vienna at the beginning of June 1814, Lord Mayor Adrians and five other city deputies traveled there to humbly ask Franz I to reunite Freiburg and Breisgau with Austria. The emperor did not dismiss the delegation without hope, but "in the meantime one should ensure calm, order, subservience and all hasty spectacles prevented". It was only through Franz I's personal intervention in the Baden government that Adrian escaped his dismissal as mayor.

In the first and second elections to the Baden Estates Assembly , Adrians was elected to the second chamber, the People's Chamber.

literature

• Jan van Gerchow and Hans Schadeck, Withdrawal of the "mild Austrian hand" Freiburg becomes Badisch (1806–1815), in: Heiko Haumann and Hans Schadek (Eds.): History of the City of Freiburg im Breisgau , Volume 3, Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-8062-1635-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karin-Anne Böttcher, Mediator between State and City, LOK3, Badische Zeitung of September 30, 1998
2. ↑ in van Gerchow, page 45
3. ↑ Franz Freiherr von Andlaw, Mein Tagebuch, first volume, JD Sauerländer's Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1862, page 34
4. ^ Peter P. Albert, From the relationship of the city of Freiburg i. Br. On the rule of Austria and the city of Vienna, journal of the Society for the Promotion of History, Antiquity and Folklore 38 , 1, 1925

predecessor	Office	successor
	Lord Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau 1806–1824	Fidel André