Max Huttler

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Max Huttler (born May 12, 1823 in Munich , † December 1, 1887 in Augsburg ) was a German Catholic priest, publisher and member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Bavarian State Parliament .

Origin and religious

Huttler was born to the doctor Franz Xaver Huttler and his wife Else. He was baptized in the name of Anton. In 1840 he graduated from the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich and entered the Benedictine monastery of St. Stephan in Augsburg in 1842 . There he received the religious name Maximilian and was ordained a priest on November 13, 1845 . From 1845 to 1850 Huttler worked as a study teacher at the monastery Latin school. In 1850 he was at the University of Freiburg in philosophy doctorate and held until 1852 a professor of philosophy at the lyceum of his monastery. Huttler's doubts about the decision for religious life have been evident since 1849, in which fundamental criticism of the Benedictine order , disappointment about one's own advancement and quarrels about the inheritance brought into the monastery by Huttler mixed. In 1854 he finally left the monastery after an agreement had been reached on the whereabouts of the Lechhausen castle near Augsburg (Huttler's legacy).

Editor and publisher

Huttler got into the newspaper business and became one of the most important publishers around the Catholic Bavarian Patriot Party . At first he worked as an editor for the Augsburg city and country messenger , which was designed as a popular offshoot of the more sophisticated Augsburg postal newspaper . In 1855 he became a member of the editorial team of the Augsburger Postzeitung . In 1857 he first bought the Augsburger Stadt- und Landbote and renamed it the Neue Augsburger Zeitung , and then the Augsburger Postzeitung . In 1859 the Augsburger Anzeiger was added. With the acquisition of a printing company in Augsburg in 1860/61, Huttler was able to print his newspapers himself. In 1861 he opened a bookstore, a lending library in Augsburg and founded a reading club. He summarized his entire undertaking as the literary institute of Dr. Max Huttler together. After the founding of the empire, he also took over the Bavarian Courier , which appeared in Munich and was close to Munich's patriotic party circles. Finally, in 1874, Huttler founded his own book publisher in Munich (since 1877 in Augsburg). Financial difficulties - only the Neue Augsburger Zeitung was commercially successful - forced him to accept Konrad Fischer as a partner in his company in 1885 . The company now operated as the Literary Institute Dr. Max Huttler & Cie . After Huttler's death, Fischer took over the company as sole owner.

Politician

Huttler was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1869 to 1875. In the elections in May 1869 he won a mandate in the district of Günzburg , in the new elections in November 1869 in the district of Mindelheim , which he held until the end of the electoral term. His electoral success was based on his roots in the Catholic club scene in Augsburg and, of course, that as the publisher of the Neue Augsburger Zeitung and the Augsburger Postzeitung he was one of the opinion leaders in Catholic Bavaria, especially in the Swabian region. He profiled the Augsburger Postzeitung as the "main paper of the moderate, liberal-conservative variant of southern German Catholicism" and thus decidedly against radical papers such as Johann Baptist Sigls Bayerisches Vaterland or the Franconian Volksblatt in Würzburg , for which Alois Rittler worked as an editor in the 1870s . The different directions of political Catholicism were now also found in the Catholic parliamentary group, which merged in the summer of 1869 to form the Patriotic Group : the founding act of the Bavarian Patriot Party , of which Huttler can be counted as one of the fathers.

Although Huttler was only a member of the state parliament for six years, the major debates and pioneering votes on the way to the establishment of the German Empire took place during this time : In July 1870, the state parliament had to decide on the approval of war credits ( Franco-German war ) and in January 1871 on the approval of the November Treaties . Huttler gains historical importance here because both votes in the Chamber of Deputies for the government of Ludwig II could only be won if the patriots or part of the parliamentary group agreed; Along with Chamber President Ludwig von Weis and Johann Nepomuk Sepp, Huttler was one of the leading members of the parliamentary wing that opposed the negative parliamentary majority led by Joseph Edmund Jörg and supported the war credits (July 19, 1870) and the November Treaties (November 21, 1870) with the Liberals. January 1871) voted. This was the only way to achieve a unanimous vote from the King, the Chamber of Imperial Councils and the Chamber of Deputies, as required by the Bavarian Constitution of 1818 ; The group around Weis and Huttler had already separated from the patriotic parliamentary group before the vote on January 21, and at the end of January formed their own parliamentary group under the name Centrum (approx. 30 members). Most of these MPs, including Huttler himself, returned to the Patriot faction at the end of 1871 in view of the beginning of the Bavarian culture war .

Works

  • The religious philosophy of Raymundus von Sabunde  : a contribution to the history of philosophy . Augsburg: Kollmann, 1851
  • The book as an object of the arts and crafts , 1881.

literature

  • Gunnar Anger:  Max Huttler. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 594-598.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Friedrich Hartmannsgruber: Die Bayerische Patriotenpartei 1868–1887 (series of publications on Bavarian national history, volume 82), CH Beck, Munich 1986.
  • Paul Hoser: Max Huttler as a newspaper and book publisher (1823–1887) , in: Helmut Gier / Johannes Janota (eds.): Augsburg book printing and publishing from the beginnings to the present , Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, pp. 1019–1032 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 4, p. 18.
  2. ^ Paul Hoser: Max Huttler as a newspaper and book publisher (1823–1887) , in: Helmut Gier / Johannes Janota (eds.): Augsburger Buchdruck und Verlagwesen from the beginnings to the present , Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, p. 1019 f .
  3. ^ Paul Hoser: Bayerischer Kurier. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . August 29, 2013, accessed July 12, 2015 .
  4. ^ Paul Hoser: Max Huttler as a newspaper and book publisher (1823-1887) , in: Helmut Gier / Johannes Janota (eds.): Augsburger Buchdruck und Verlagwesen from the beginnings to the present , Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, p. 1020– 1024.
  5. ^ So Friedrich Hartmannsgruber: Die Bayerische Patriotenpartei 1868-1887 , Munich 1986, p. 284.
  6. ↑ Dieter Albrecht : From the establishment of an empire to the end of the First World War (1871-1918) , in: Alois Schmid (ed.): Handbuch der Bayerischen Geschichte Volume IV , 1, Munich 2003, p. 336.
  7. ↑ In detail in Friedrich Hartmannsgruber: Die Bayerische Patriotenpartei 1868–1887 , Munich 1986, pp. 362–372.
  8. ^ Friedrich Hartmannsgruber: Die Bayerische Patriotenpartei 1868-1887 , Munich 1986, p. 312 f.
personal data
SURNAME Huttler, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1887
Place of death augsburg