Leopold Franz Gruber

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Leopold Franz Gruber (* around 1710 ; † November 25, 1784 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and mayor of Vienna (1764 and 1767 to 1773).

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Leopold Franz Gruber was born around 1710 as the son of Empress Amalie's personal laqaien , Adam Franz Gruber († around 1735) and Eva Justina Mannagetta von Lerchenau, the daughter of the Türnitz market judge Tobias Mannagetta von Lerchenau, who belonged to the Mannagetta family (or later Mannagetta von Lerchenau ) were born. After studying law at the University of Vienna , which he obtained with the degree of jur. utr. Baccalaureus, the then 28-year-old town judge was appointed, but only rose slowly in the hierarchy. In 1746, when Gruber was in his thirties, he became a member of the Inner Council and rented a room in the Zur Großer Presse building at the then address Stadt 509 . Three years later he married Maria Anna Krazer (née Stadler; * around 1710; † May 28, 1788), the house owner's widow. The former long-time mayor of Vienna Peter Joseph Kofler acted as assistants for Gruber and the then incumbent mayor of Vienna Andreas Ludwig Leitgeb for the bride. After Leitgeb's death two years later, Kofler began his second term in office, which lasted from 1751 to 1764.

After Kofler died during this term of office, Leopold Franz Gruber succeeded him in the office of Mayor of the City of Vienna. This commitment was short-lived, however, as Josef Anton Bellesini was subsequently chosen as his successor. When Bellesini died on November 12, 1767 during his tenure, Gruber was finally elected as the new mayor. He was in this office from 1767 to 1773, during which time some other events and activities also took place. Among other things, he was the praeses of Vienna's municipal economic commune in 1770 and remained a member of it after 1774. In addition, Joseph Daniel Huber began working on his bird show during his time as Mayor of Vienna . On March 10, 1770, the first official house numbering was ordered; Around nine months later, on December 15, 1779, the order was issued that house numbers must be attached to the houses in such a way that they were visible from the street.

In June 1771 the Dutchman Josef Harty presented a plan to the Viennese court post office for the establishment of a small post office . The plan provided for a postal connection between the city of Vienna and the suburbs and was granted a ten-year privilege on February 8, 1772 . At the beginning of the following month, the small post office, which was also called rattle mail, started operating because the postmen made themselves noticeable by means of wooden hand rattles . The office of the Wiener Kleine Post was at the time at the address Stadt 782 , today's Bäckerstraße 5 in the 1st district of Vienna. In 1773 Gruber was replaced as Mayor of Vienna by Josef Georg Hörl ; Hörl was then to become the longest serving mayor of Vienna. On November 25, 1784, the former mayor died at the age of 74 in his house at the Zur Große Presse at today's address Sterngasse 7. The building was demolished in 1961 together with the neighboring building at the Zur kleine Presse (today's Sterngasse 5), which caused a scandal there at that time both houses were among the oldest surviving buildings in Vienna. The corner house at the large press was first mentioned in a document in 1468. The exact year of construction is not known to this day.

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SURNAME Gruber, Leopold Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and mayor of Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH around 1710
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1784
Place of death Vienna