Johann Michael von Seuffert

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Johann Michael von Seuffert (born January 5, 1765 in Würzburg ; † May 9, 1829 there ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Johann Michael von Seuffert was the fifth child of Johann Georg Seuffert, Rittmeister in the Dragoon Regiment of the Franconian district , who was raised to the Franconian nobility in the Seven Years' War and his wife Margaretha, nee. Pfitzner.

He attended the Peterschule and the grammar school (today: Wirsberg grammar school ) in Würzburg. Before he initially studied philosophy and mathematics in Würzburg, and later law and the languages ​​French, Italian and English, he received a scholarship for the Aufseesianum boarding school in Bamberg . After studying at the University of Würzburg , he received his doctorate prematurely in 1786 as a licentiate in both rights, defending the dispute that every people has the right to grant the prince the rights of majesty for just and obvious reasons, for example because of open violation of the basic laws fail and disobey him. This was communicated to the sovereign, but he did not impose any punishment on him, but had the inaugural treatise and the disputes handed over to him and granted him funds to continue his studies at the University of Göttingen . There he attended lectures by Johann Stephan Pütter , Johann Friedrich Eberhard Böhmer , Christian Gottlob Heyne , Johann Christoph Gatterer , August Ludwig von Schlözer and Ludwig Timotheus Spittler . For a short time he also worked in practical matters at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar . He got a job as court master and chancellor for the sons of Count Hugo Damian Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid and found a well-stocked library there at Weißenstein Castle in Pommersfelden . During this time he wrote his treatise On the Right of the Embarrassed Accused to Expel His Judge .

In 1788 he returned to Würzburg and was appointed repetitor of the court noblemen and shortly afterwards an assistant in the electoral cabinet . Later he was appointed associate professor of law at the University of Würzburg, where he gave lectures on legal encyclopedia and German private law.

In 1790 the history of the German nobility appeared in the high arches and cathedral chapters , in which he vigorously opposed the exclusive surrender of spiritual benefices to the nobility, and his writing Operae venatoriae ad territoriales quatenus referendae are? , which caused a sensation because of its frank language and attacked the territoriality of the hunting drones (obligation to hunt services). Despite these letters, or precisely because of it, he was appointed to the secret cabinet of Prince-Bishop Franz Ludwig von Erthal in 1790 and, in 1792, while retaining his professorship, was appointed real court and government councilor and then a secret trainee lawyer and thus became its closest adviser. In the years that followed, he headed all of the businesses that were otherwise within the scope of several ministries, especially during the Second Coalition War , when Prince-Bishop Georg Karl von Fechenbach had to leave Würzburg and could not return until the end of April 1801.

He accompanied Prince-Bishop Georg Karl von Ferchenbach to the courts of Paris and Vienna and advised him on questions of the impending secularization . On the occasion of the impending transition of the Bishopric of Würzburg to the Electorate of Bavaria , he was appointed by the bishops Georg Karl von Ferchenbach from Würzburg, Christoph Franz von Buseck from Bamberg , Karl Theodor von Dalberg from Regensburg , Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk von Walderdorf from Speyer and Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné from Strasbourg asked to represent their interests at the Reichstag in Regensburg on August 24, 1802.

However, the secular princes began to occupy the territories assigned to them during the meeting of the Reich Deputation before the Reichsdeputation Hauptschluss was passed, and so on September 3, 1802, a Bavarian division moved into Würzburg.

On November 28, 1802, the prince-bishop abdicated as secular prince and remained bishop of the diocese of Würzburg.

The decisive influence of Johann Michael von Seuffert is shown in the book Brief and Faithful Outline of the State Administration in the Hochstifte Würzburg , which has been run since then , which was created in 1803 after the incorporation of Würzburg by the Electorate of Bavaria and in which the last Prince-Bishop is showered with accusations because he had left the government entirely to his confidante Johann Michael von Seuffert, the “ first and last director of the state machine ”.

After the takeover by Bavaria, he went to Munich on behalf of his master to negotiate with the Elector Maximilian I Joseph in Nymphenburg Palace and the ministry about taking over the princely officials and servants.

He was initially appointed by the Elector Maximilian I. Joseph as a member of the Court Commission for the reorganization of the authorities, after the completion of this work he was appointed President of the Court . By decree of December 25, 1806 he was appointed by the new sovereign of the Grand Duchy of Würzburg , Ferdinand III. from Tuscany , raised to the position of State Councilor and President of the Secret Court Commission, so that he was once again at the head of justice and administration. In 1810 he was promoted to court commissioner.

In 1814 the Grand Duchy of Würzburg fell back to the Kingdom of Bavaria and Johann Michael von Seuffert became President of the Court and in 1817 headed the Court of Appeal for the Lower Main District.

He was elected 2nd President of the State Parliament in the Bavarian state parliament during the electoral period 1819–1825 .

In 1820 he was appointed Real Council of State in extraordinary service.

In Würzburg he was elected to the council of municipal representatives.

Johann Michael Seuffert was married to Apollonia since 1793 (born November 2, 1771 in Würzburg; † May 29, 1832 in Munich), a daughter of the Würzburg mayor Franz Joseph Oehninger (1749-1807). Her children known by name were:

  • Georg Josef von Seuffert (1793–1864), district court director, honorary citizen of Würzburg;
  • Johann Adam von Seuffert (born March 15, 1794 in Würzburg, † May 8, 1857 in Munich); Professor of Law at the Julius Maximilians University and later a judge of appeal, honorary citizen of Würzburg;
  • Georg Karl von Seuffert (born October 15, 1800 in Würzburg; † December 28, 1870), first president of the commercial appeal court established in Nuremberg for the seven districts of Bavaria on the Rhine and an honorary citizen of Schweinfurt;
  • Dorothea von Seuffert (born May 14, 1807; † February 19, 1873 in Munich), married to Heinrich Gustav Christoph Freiherr von Drechsel on Teuffstetten (1806-1889), royal Bavarian lieutenant colonel .

Johann Michael von Seuffert found his final resting place in the Würzburg main cemetery .

Honors

  • Seuffertstrasse was named after Johann Michael von Seuffert in the Frauenland district of Würzburg .
  • In 1819 he received the right to choose two honorary citizens from among his sons.

Fonts (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen, 7th year, 1829, 1st part, pp. 414–416 . Voigt, 1831 ( google.de [accessed April 22, 2018]).
  2. ^ ADB: Seuffert, Johann Michael - Wikisource. Retrieved April 22, 2018 .
  3. ^ Johann Michael von Seuffert - WürzburgWiki. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  4. ^ House of Bavarian History - Bavarian Biographies. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Memorable Bavaria: Brief descriptions of the lives of deceased men who were born in the territory of the current Kingdom of Bavaria or who belonged to it through a longer stay, p. 341 ff. M. Rieger, 1865 ( google.de [accessed on April 23, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Johann Michael Ritter von Seuffert born. 5 Jan 1765 Würzburg d. 9 May 1829 Würzburg: Stammreihen.de. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 23, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / adelsmatrikel.de  
  7. ^ ADB: Seuffert, Georg Karl von - Wikisource. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Seuffert - WürzburgWiki. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  9. ^ Würzburg / Adressbuch 1967 / Honorary Citizen of the City of Würzburg - GenWiki. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Seuffert, Johann Michael von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seuffert, Johann M .; Seuffert, IA; Seuffert, Johann August M .; Seuffert, IAM; Sevffert, IAM; Sevffert, Ioannes Michael; Seuffert, Johannes Michael; Sevffert, IM; Seuffert, Johann Michael von; Seuffert, JM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1829
Place of death Wurzburg