Josef von Schmitt (lawyer, 1838)

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Josef von Schmitt, after 1896

Josef Schmitt , since 1896 Knight von Schmitt (born March 4, 1838 in Hofheim in Lower Franconia ; † April 16, 1907 in Bamberg ) was the President of the Bavarian Regional Court and an honorary citizen of the city of Bamberg.

Life

After studying law in Würzburg, where he became a member of the Corps Bavaria , and receiving his doctorate as Dr. jur. Schmitt worked as a public prosecutor and judge in Bamberg. He became a Bavarian Privy Councilor of Justice and Privy Councilor .

From 1870 he was the royal lawyer in Bamberg. Today's free profession of lawyer was then a government agency. From 1884 to 1905 he was president of the district court in Bamberg . In this capacity he was made an honorary citizen of Bamberg in 1889 and the "Dr.-von-Schmitt-Straße" there today bears his name. In 1896, Prince Regent Luitpold awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown . With the award, the elevation to the personal nobility was connected and he was allowed to call himself "Ritter von Schmitt" after the entry in the nobility register .

He was also a successful business lawyer. During the founding period , he was involved in numerous company foundings. Business connections existed with the Dresdner banking house Gebr. Arnhold . From 1898 until his death he was chairman of the supervisory board of the Schweinfurt ball producer "Fries & Höpflinger " and made a decisive contribution to the company's upswing.

A number of honorary functions were performed by him. He was chairman of the community plenipotentiary college and president of the district administrator in Bamberg.

literature

  • Heinz F. Frankel with the collaboration of Hans W. Mayer, New and Old Street Names in Bamberg - Street Name Explanations, 3rd significantly expanded edition, Bamberg 1999.
  • Werner Schubert:  Schmitt, Gottfried von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 234 ( digitized version ). (Secondary entry)
  • Lothar Dorn: Two important brothers from Hofheim. The brothers Gottfried and Joseph Ritter von Schmitt. In: Chronicle of the city of Hofheim and its districts. Hofheim City History Working Group. (Ed.). Hofheim 1993, pp. 93-98.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KCL 1930, 137/245
  2. ^ Anton Bettelheim (Ed.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog from 1907–1908. G. Reimer Verlag, 1909 ( excerpt )
  3. ↑ Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1906. Munich 1906. P. 21.
  4. ↑ Engelbert Fries: History of the ball industry. Typescript, Schweinfurt 1929, p. 27.
  5. ↑ Historical Association Bamberg. Commission publisher Buchner, 1914, p. 174 ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Josef von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitt, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION President of the German regional court, honorary citizen of the city of Bamberg
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Hofheim in Lower Franconia
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1907
Place of death Bamberg