Karl Felix Brunner

Karl Felix Brunner (born April 4, 1803 in Walldürn ; † August 12, 1857 in Rome ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Karl Felix Brunner was born the first of 14 children. He married Augusta Schefferth (or Schäffert) from Baden-Baden on November 4, 1829 in Mannheim († February 4, 1873 in Mannheim). The marriage had three children: Carl Felix Gottfried Heinrich, Adolf, Julius Otto.

On August 13, 1857, Karl Felix Brunner died of malaria in Rome . He is buried in the Campo Santo Teutonico in the Vatican.

Career

Karl Felix Brunner came to his uncle Franz Theodor Brunner, pastor in Handschuhsheim , as a student and from there attended the grammar school in Heidelberg. Dealing with the educated uncle and his large collection of books laid the foundation for his versatile knowledge and the solid knowledge of music and the visual arts. The clerical uncle would have preferred if Karl Felix had become a theologian, but finally resigned himself to his nephew's law studies, in the hope that he could later join the church council as a lawyer or become professor juris canonici in Freiburg.

At the age of 21 Brunner became a trainee lawyer after successfully passing his exams, and at the age of 26 he became a senior court judge in Mannheim, as whom he enjoyed the trust of numerous clients, especially those from the landlord and class aristocrats of the district, and to the same extent the recognition and respect of the courts of law knew to win. In recognition of this activity, says Friedrich von Weech in his " Badische Biographien ", Brunner was appointed to the civil service. In 1835 he was appointed court judge and in 1836 court judge. The state administration also sought his services, so that as early as 1837 he was appointed Ministerialrat in the Ministry of the Interior, on which occasion the city of Mannheim, in which he had previously worked, granted him honorary citizenship.

In 1841 Brunner was appointed chief judge, 1846 director of the Ministry of the Interior, 1848 state counselor and president of the justice ministry - at his request, chancellor of the upper court. In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament . In 1854 he was the authorized representative of the Baden State in Rome to regulate relations with the Vatican and led important negotiations with the Holy See in Rome about a Baden Concordat. In 1855 he returned home, in April 1856 he traveled again to Rome on the same matter. On August 12, 1857, he got malaria there, from which he died.

obituary

In his obituary it says ( Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung , August 15, 1857) "Karl Felix Brunner was the most suitable man for this undertaking with which his sovereign had entrusted him; he enjoyed a high level of trust and a special grace from the Pope and was in An apparition as popular as it is dignified in high society circles. Cardinals Antonelli and Reisach were present at the requiem in the Church of Maria dell'anima. Cardinal Reisach also visited him during his illness. A Capuchin priest gave him the consolations of our holy religion. He told him a lot about home and was homesick, which is understandable. His eldest son (Carl Felix Gottfried Heinrich Brunner) traveled to Rome for the funeral service. "

literature

• Karl Felix Brunner. In: Baden biographies . (Editor Friedrich von Weech), Part 2, Heidelberg 1875, pp. 553–555, online in the Baden State Library
• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 100-101.

Web links

• Walldürner personalities , including Karl Felix Brunner