Julius Freiherr von der Heydte

Julius Freiherr von der Heydte (born April 13, 1865 in Hersbruck , † August 7, 1923 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and Munich police chief .

Career

Julius Freiherr von der Heydte studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University and passed the first state examination in 1886. His preparatory practice took place in the district court, in the regional court, in the police department, in the district office and in a law firm in Munich. In 1889 he passed the assessor examination (state bankruptcy), the second state examination. From 1890 to 1892 he was an intern in the district office of Munich and the government of Upper Bavaria and then assigned to the district office of Günzburg as an assessor .

In the same year he got a job at the State Ministry of the Interior and was appointed government assessor in 1895. From 1897 to 1899 he was the district administrator of the district of Berchtesgaden before he was employed in the State Ministry of the Interior for church and school matters.

In 1900 he was appointed government councilor, in 1903 senior government councilor and in 1906 police director of the Munich Police Department , which he headed until 1913. From 1907 he carried the title of Police President . In 1913 he was appointed President of the Senate at the Administrative Court, and a year later he was put into temporary retirement due to illness. In 1920 he was appointed Attorney General at the Administrative Court.

His work was characterized by comprehensive care. When Frank Wedekind asked for permission (placet) for his travesty on Albert Langen , Oaha in 1908 , von der Heydte told him in the presence of Ignaz Georg Stollberg (* 1853; † 1926; mid-November 1897-1901 director of the Munich theater in the central halls) , then in the building of the Münchner Kammerspiele ):

“You have public opinion against you. As long as that is the case, I will not release your piece. "

- Julius von der Heydte, 1908

Wedekind then asked in an open letter:

“ What does public opinion have against me?
Which party has something against me, and where can this party be found?
In the art city of Munich, does it really not depend on what someone can do when it comes to artistic questions , but on what they have against themselves ? "

Munich Theater Censorship Advisory Board

“The various suggestions that have been made for years in parliaments, in the press and in specialist literature to improve theater censorship have prompted me to attempt to create a theater censorship board for the Royal Police Department in Munich. This advisory board or college should be given the task of providing advice to the authority on dubious questions in the field of theater censorship by submitting oral or written reports. In order to avoid extensive labor for those gentlemen who would voluntarily put their energies in the service of this matter, which has a strong impact on cultural life and the public interest in general, I would only consider particularly important individual cases, then perhaps certain fundamental subjects of the Allow censorship police to provide advice and an expert opinion. "

- Letter of March 7, 1908, signed by vdHeydte in Zensurbeirat I "(4342). According to Michael Meyer: Theaterzensur in München, 1900–1918. 1982. P. 85

The recipients of the letter of March 7, 1908 were:

1. Bernhard von Arnold (born July 31, 1838 in Würzburg, † 1922 in Munich) was a Privy Councilor and from October 1887 to 1899 rector of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich .
2. Friedrich Basil
3. Hans Cornelius
4. Otto Crusius
5. Alexander von Gleichen-Sootworm
6. Karl Graßmann (* 1867; † 1933) 1895: Senior physician at the Klinikum rechts der Isar specializing in heart diseases Of his 50 publications, 30 relate to his specialty.
7. Max von Gruber
8. Max Halbe
9. Karl Theodor von Heigel
10. Adolf von Hildebrand
11. Georg Kerschensteiner
12. Emil Kraepelin
13. Richard Du Moulin-Eckart
14. Friedrich von Müller (physician)
15. Franz Muncker
16. Johann Nicklas (* 1851; † 1933) 1896–1919 Rector of the Theresien-Gymnasium Munich
17. Ernst von Possart chairman
18. Josef Ruederer
19. Jocza Savits
20. Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld
21. Anton von Stadler
22. Emil Sulger-Gebing
23. Karl Voll
24. Wilhelm Weigand
25. Julius von Werther

In a letter dated March 8, 1908, the members of the substitute commissions were asked for their assistance:

1. Bernhard von Arnold
2. Friedrich Basil
3. Otto Crusius
4. Karl Graßmann
5. Emil Kraepelin
6. Josef Ruederer
7. Jocza Savits
8. Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld
9. Emil Sulger-Gebing

With the exception of the historian Karl Theodor von Heigel (* 1842 in Munich, † 1915 in just there), who canceled for professional reasons, all those appointed were happy to take over the office. With the exception of four resignations from office and five deaths, with only three new members being appointed, the censorship council remained unchanged from 1908 to November 21, 1918. No new members were named for Savits and Voll, who died in 1915 and 1917 respectively. No new member was appointed for Josef Ruederer, who died in autumn 1915.

The ban on Wetterstein Castle on October 30, 1911 and Oaha on November 16, 1911 as well as the rejection of the Kammersänger by the director of the court theater prompted Wedekind, who saw himself increasingly restricted in his dramatic work by the censorship, to ask the public three questions in which he asked for clarification: who , what and why had against him. On December 1, 1911, Max Halbe sent the police president von der Heydte: The royal police director. I have the honor to inform you that from today I ask that I no longer consider myself a member of the censorship board, as further participation in this institution no longer appears to be beneficial in view of the intensified fundamental contradictions. Sincerely, Dr. Max Halbe. The letter was published in almost all major newspapers in Munich and the German Reich. In the comments on this declaration of resignation, the hope was mostly expressed that other members would follow the example of M. Halbe.

Despite this, Thomas Mann took over from him in this role. Mann left the censorship board when Wedekind's Lulu was banned. On December 7th, 1912, Th. Mann describes his role in the censorship board in a letter to Wedekind: The public order overseer must be warned against interfering with works of poetic rank. "On May 29th, 1913 he wrote to Wedekind about his resignation Censorship Advisory Board: Since my resignation as a police organ was able to win back your sympathy for me, I will be delighted to have given it, The prohibition of your greatest work was in any case a suitable opportunity. And apart from the odium of this special office, it is completely without office I feel most comfortable after all.

Josef Hofmiller stood up for Hans Cornelius on January 4, 1911 , who had accepted the call to the University of Frankfurt in the summer of 1910.

Alfred von Mensi-Klarbach (born December 16, 1854 in Innsbruck, † 1933) was also one of those later appointed.

No replacement councils were appointed for Savits and Voll, who died in 1915 and 1917 respectively.

predecessor	Office	successor
Otto Halder from Schweinfurt	Munich Police President February 1, 1906 to August 1, 1913	Ludwig von Grundherr zu Altenthann and Weyerhaus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heydte, Julius Frhr. vd In: Verwaltungshandbuch.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de . Retrieved January 5, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Thomas Grasberger: Stenz: The lust of the south. (on Google Books)
3. ↑ Karl Graßmann (Imago - Journal for Psychoanalytic Psychology)
4. ^ Francisca: p. 236
5. ↑ Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich. Biographies from eight centuries. Allitera Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3869067445 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
6. ^ Michael Meyer: Theater censorship in Munich 1900–1918. History and development of police censorship and the theater censorship council with special consideration of Frank Wedekind's In: Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia (= Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia. Volume 111). utzverlag GmbH, 1982, ISBN 978-3831661114 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
7. ^ Alfred von Mensi-Klarbach, writer, editor-in-chief of the Allgemeine Zeitung Munich, GND: 116885645 Studied law and philosophy, until 1881 assessor in Innsbruck. 1881 volunteer at the newspaper Der Moderigte in Munich, which had been founded shortly before by Martin Schleich (writer) . Later editor for the "Süddeutsche Presse". In October 1882 the "Allgemeine Zeitung" moved its headquarters from Augsburg to Munich, where Mensi was given the theater and music department. From 1887 he was the responsible editor of the feature pages. Klarbach, Alfred Frhr. Mensi v. born 1854 Innsbruck, d. 1933 , Peter Sprengel: History of German-Language Literature, 1900–1918.
8. ^ Munich digitization center : Julius Heydte in the administrative manual of the Bavarian State Library (online); Julius von der Heydte - data set at the German National Library