Johannes Loew

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Johannes Loew

Johannes Loew , from 1832 Knight von Loew (born October 10, 1771 in Bruchsal , † October 22, 1833 in Speyer ) was an ennobled Bavarian lawyer and civil servant in the higher service.

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Johannes Loew was born the son of the physician Johann Jacob Loew (1731–83) and his wife Maria Theresia Traitteur; the family belonged to the Catholic denomination. The father acted as personal physician and confidante of the Speyer prince-bishop August von Limburg-Stirum . The mother came from the Traitteur family, who was also in the service of the Speyer bishop, and her father was the episcopal office cellar in Deidesheim . The brothers Johann Andreas von Traitteur and Karl Theodor von Traitteur , well-known in the Electoral Palatinate of Bavaria , also came from this family.

Johannes Loew lost his father at the age of 12. He attended the grammar school in Bruchsal and studied law at the University of Mainz and from 1790 in Erlangen .

He came to Deidesheim through his maternal relatives and became a community syndic (legal advisor to the administration). The French revolutionaries now ruling here had the moderately-minded Loew removed from this office. He then worked as the syndic of the local hospital foundation and continued to be influential in the community. In the event of legal disputes , the lawyer stood up for the interests of Deidesheim.

Under Napoleonic rule, Johannes Loew became an attorney at the Speyer District Court in 1803 , and a judge there in 1811. After the French withdrew in 1814 , the Palatinate was initially subordinated to the Austro-Bavarian State Administration Commission , based in Kreuznach . This is where Loew began his administrative work and campaigned for the reconnection to Bavaria.

In 1816 the Kingdom of Bavaria took him over into its state administration and on August 18 of that year he was appointed government councilor in the Rhine district . Johannes Loew resigned from civil service in 1831 for health reasons. On January 1, 1832, King Ludwig I awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Bavarian Crown , combined with the personal title of nobility. On this occasion, his friend from Speyer Cathedral and later Cardinal Johannes von Geissel dedicated a celebratory poem to him. A few years earlier he had received the Grand Ducal Hessian House Order of the Golden Lion . Loew died in 1833 and was buried in the Catholic part of the Old Cemetery in Speyer . Court Councilor Georg von Jäger gave the funeral address at the grave and District President Joseph von Stichaner reported to Munich that Bavaria had lost an excellently active businessman and loyal servant.

Loew was a well-known history lover and published many articles on local history in the intelligence papers of the Rhine district , including a history of the Deidesheim hospital . In 1827 he was one of the founding members of the Palatinate Historical Society .

Family relationships

In 1805 Loew married Clementine Pfister, the daughter of a Swiss officer, in Speyer. The connection resulted in 15 children. The daughter Amalie (1811–1879) married the widowed Prince Karl Theodor von Wrede , former president of the Palatinate government , in 1844 . The daughter Amanda (1810–1864) married the Upper Franconian Court of Appeal President Maximilian Dall'Armi (1804–1867), son of the Munich businessman Andreas Michael Dall'Armi .

Loew's niece (daughter of his brother) was the soprano Maria Theresia Löw (1809–1885); whose daughter in turn was the opera singer Lilli Lehmann (1848–1929). In her memoir “Mein Weg” (1913), Lilli Lehmann wrote down the family memories of aunt Amanda Dall'Armi, née. Loew added as a separate chapter.

literature

  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities , Hennig Verlag Edenkoben, 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , p. 533.
  • Arnold Siben: Johann von Loew (1771–1833): His life with special consideration of his years and activities in Deidesheim , Palatinate Museum, Speyer, born 1929, double issue 11/12, pp. 331–342 (with various portraits).
  • Lilli Lehmann: Mein Weg , Hirzel Verlag, Leipzig, 1913 and 1920 ( online view of the family history, in several accessible sections ).
  • Verlag der Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz: Yearbook for West German State History , Volumes 2–3, 1976, p. 300, footnote 81; Excerpt from the source .
  • Heiner Schuler: John (from) Loew (1771-1833), one of the pioneers of the connection of the Palatinate to Bavaria , in voice of the Palatinate , Munich, born 1991, Issue 3, pages 4-6 Find Note .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine , Volume 96, Issue 1, 1948, page 220; Excerpt from the source
  2. ↑ Speyerer Weekly Advertisement Sheet No. 2, of January 10, 1828; Scan from the source
  3. ^ Gudrun Wedel: Autobiographies of women: Ein Lexikon , Böhlau Verlag Cologne, 2010, ISBN 3-412-20585-0 , page 171; Scan from the source
personal data
SURNAME Loew, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loew, Johannes von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian lawyer and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1833
Place of death Speyer