Ludwig von Welser

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Ludwig von Welser

Ludwig von Welser (born May 6, 1841 in Eichstätt ; † December 26, 1931 in Neunhof (Lauf an der Pegnitz) ) was a Bavarian baron and civil servant in the higher service.

biography

Ludwig von Welser came from the Ulm line of the old patrician family Welser and was the son of the appellate court director Freiherr Johann Michael von Welser (1808–1875) and his wife Cölestine von Leonrod (1820–1877).

From 1859 to 1863 he studied law at the universities of Erlangen, Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig. During his studies in Erlangen he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in the winter semester 1859/60 , and its spokesman in the winter semester 1862/63 . On February 28, 1873, he became a District Office Assessor in Bad Reichenhall . 1881 Baron advanced to the District Officer in Nuremberg , in 1884 the Government with the Government of Lower Franconia in Würzburg . In 1885 Welser moved to the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior in the same position. In 1890 he was appointed police director in Munich and promoted to the higher government council .

In 1897, Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria appointed the baron to be the district president of the Rheinpfalz ( Speyer ), in which office he remained until 1902. In that year he moved to Middle Franconia ( Ansbach ) as regional president ; In 1909 Welser retired. Because of his services to the foundation and the new building of the Palatinate History Museum , the city of Speyer awarded him honorary citizenship in 1909, and he was also an honorary member of the Palatinate Historical Society . During his time in Ansbach, Freiherr von Welser was a co-founder and first chairman (1905–1912) of the Society for Franconian History ; since 1867 he was a member of the Pegnese Flower Order .

Ludwig von Welser died on Christmas Day 1931 in Neunhof near Lauf an der Pegnitz, the ancestral home of his family. He was successively married to the two sisters Charlotte Haller von Hallerstein (1844–1873) and Johanna Haller von Hallerstein (1847–1923). The son Johann Michael Freiherr von Welser (1869–1943), who later became State Secretary, came from the first marriage .

Welser's father Johann Michael already dealt intensively with his own family history. His research was continued by Ludwig von Welser and published in two volumes in 1917.

Honors

Publications

  • On the history of the Nuremberg trade. Wuerzburg 1912.
  • Neunhof. Bamberg 1928.

literature

  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities , Hennig Verlag Edenkoben, 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , p. 936.
  • Erika Bosl: Welser, Ludwig von. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 834 ( digitized version ).
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 254-255.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical website about the couple (not completely freely available)
  2. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 197.
  3. ^ Web portal of the Society for Franconian History
  4. ^ Website with the chairmen of the society
  5. ↑ Mark Häberlein, Johannes Burkhardt: Die Welser: new research on the history and culture of the Upper German trading house , 2002, ISBN 3-05-003412-2 , p. 11; Scan from the source
  6. ^ Regina Dauser: The Fugger and Welser: From the Middle Ages to the Present , Verlagsgemeinschaft Augsbuch, 2010, p. 160, ISBN 3-938332-15-8 ; Excerpt from the source
personal data
SURNAME Welser, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welser, Ludwig Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian baron and administrative officer, district president
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Eichstatt
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1931
Place of death Neunhof (Lauf an der Pegnitz)