Max Frey (Government Director)

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Andreas Maximilian Frey , from 1863 Ritter von Frey , (* 1799 in Kirchenthumbach , Upper Palatinate ; † April 15, 1871 in Bayreuth ) was a German administrative officer in Bavaria.

Life

Max Frey was the son of the magistrate Franz Xaver Frey from Kirchenthumbach and his wife Margarete geb. Forester, landlady's daughter from Trockau . He entered the civil service of the young Kingdom of Bavaria and worked as a tax officer in Speyer in the Palatinate . From here he was called to serve in Greece when Prince Otto of Bavaria assumed the royal dignity there. There, too, he worked as a financial specialist, from June 1, 1835, as a cabinet advisor with the rank of State Councilor, and finally held the office of Vice Chancellor at the side of State Chancellor Joseph Ludwig von Armansperg . He himself previously served as Vice President of the government of the Rhine District in Speyer and a prudent financial expert (popularly known as " Sparmannsberg "), which is why he knew and valued Frey. Before he left for Greece, Max Frey married Friederike Adelheid Ehrmann on October 23, 1834. She was the daughter of the Speyer district medical councilor Christian Ehrmann (called Stellwag), the adopted son of the physician and Goethe friend Johann Christian Ehrmann . The later Speyer bishop and Cologne Cardinal Johannes von Geissel had looked after them as private tutor.

On behalf of King Otto, Frey drafted the first statute of the University of Athens in 1835 , but when it was founded in 1837, it was replaced by a new draft by Christian August Brandis (1790–1867). In 1836 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Savior .

Max Frey was in a personal relationship of trust with King Otto, Ignaz von Rudhart (1790-1838), from February 1837 the successor of the Greek Chancellor Count Armansperg, had behind the back of King Otto, with his father Ludwig I of Bavaria , the replacement of Max Frey operated and enforced. Rudhart therefore fell out of favor with King Otto and gave up his office again in December 1837. Frey returned to Speyer with his wife in 1838 and re-entered the Bavarian civil service. The couple's son Friedrich Hermann Frey was born here in 1839, who was to become a well-known poet under the pseudonym Martin Greif . In 1856 the government councilor was transferred to Munich , where he moved with his family. Most recently, Frey was employed as a government director in the government of Upper Franconia in Bayreuth, where he was head of the finance chamber and represented the district president.

After receiving the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit from Saint Michael in 1851 , King Maximilian II Joseph awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown on November 21, 1863 . With the award, the elevation to the personal nobility was connected and he was allowed to call himself "Ritter von Frey" after the entry in the nobility register .

He was the father of the poet Martin Greif and died at the age of 72.

Max von Frey was the brother-in-law of the Speyer district archivist and painter Peter Gayer and the uncle of his son Karl Gayer , professor of forestry and rector of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

literature

  • Martin Greif : Martin Greif's collected works: Volume Nachgelassene Schriften. Amelangs Verlag, 1912.
  • Wolf Seidl: Bavaria in Greece. Prestel Verlag 1981, ISBN 3791305565 .
  • Palatinate life pictures. Volume 1, Publishing House of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science, 1964.
  • Wolfgang Diehl: Konrad Krez , freedom fighter and poet. Palatinate Publishing House 1988, ISBN 3876291240 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To the full name
  2. ↑ Source on the dates of death
  3. ↑ Source NDB article by grandson Martin Greif
  4. ^ To the civil service with the government of the Rhine district
  5. ↑ Source at the time of the work in Greece
  6. ↑ Source on appointment as Greek cabinet and state council
  7. ↑ On the activity as Greek Vice Chancellor
  8. ↑ On Geissel's work in the Ehrmann house
  9. ↑ On the draft of the first statute of the University of Athens
  10. ↑ On the bestowal of the Order of the Redeemer
  11. ↑ On personal contact with the king
  12. ↑ To the replacement of Frey without the knowledge of the king
  13. ↑ On the activity in the government of Upper Franconia
  14. ↑ On the award of the Michael Order, 1851.
  15. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria. No. 1 of January 4, 1864, column 21.
  16. ↑ On the relationship between Greif and Gayer
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frey, Andreas Maximilian von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Administrative officer in Bavaria and Greece
DATE OF BIRTH 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchenthumbach , Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1871
Place of death Bayreuth