Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld

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Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld (born November 16, 1778 in Ingolstadt , † October 14, 1843 in Heinersreuth Castle in Presseck ) was a German politician.

Life

Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld came from an old Bavarian aristocratic family and was the son of the Ingolstadt caretaker and court caster Max Joseph Freiherr von Lerchenfeld (born January 21, 1740 in Kraiburg ; † June 29, 1805 in Ingolstadt) and his wife Maria Anna (born November 20 1749 in Bernau Castle ; † October 26, 1824 in Bamberg), a daughter of Leopold Renald von Eyselsberg, born.

He was initially taught in his parents' house and later attended the Ingolstadt grammar school and the University of Ingolstadt . After completing his studies, he attended the Diplomatic Nursery School established by Maximilian von Montgelas in Munich in 1799 , although he left it again in the autumn of the same year because his prospects for a quick promotion were slim. He followed an offer from Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Hertling (1758–1816) and accompanied him, who worked for Bavaria as general commissioner of the supreme authority of the Swabian province in Ulm .

Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld became a councilor in the regional directorate of the Bavarian province of Swabia in Ulm in 1803 , two years later he was appointed director of the constitutional department and he was responsible for regulating the border relations with the Kingdom of Württemberg , whereupon he resided in Stuttgart from 1807 to 1808 stayed, there he met the president of the Württemberg upper finance chamber, Karl August von Wangenheim , who influenced his later political direction.

In autumn 1808 he was appointed general commissioner in Ansbach , 1809 in Nuremberg and 1810 in Innsbruck . In the summer of 1814 he took over the administration of the Grand Duchy of Würzburg as court commissioner . There he arranged the Würzburg national debt system and prevented it from merging with the Bavarian national debt system.

1817 joined Maximilian Emanuel von Lerch field as finance minister in that, after the fall of Montgelas ' newly formed Ministry of Finance, its new tasks, the drafting of the Constitution, the conclusion of the Concordat , the creation of a new administrative organization and the order of the unclear financial relationships should be. Although grain prices rose after the wars in 1816 and 1817, whereupon the country fell into a state of emergency, and while the constant territorial changes continued to confuse the financial situation, he was able to lay the groundwork for order in the state budget and especially in the state debt system. For this purpose, under the direction of Ignatz von Rudhart, he founded his own statistical office, which existed from 1818 to 1825. He also played a major role in drafting the constitution , which was passed in May 1818, and contributed to its liberal development. In the Concordat negotiations he stood up for the rights of the state and achieved that the "Edict on the external legal relationships of the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Bavaria, in relation to religion and ecclesiastical societies" ( Religionsedict of 1818) as a supplement to the constitution and on November 7th In 1818 a “Royal Declaration concerning the II. Constitutional Supplement and its appendices”, in which the previously practiced tolerance and parity policy was confirmed. At the same time, the Concordat was simply proclaimed as a simple law and added as an appendix to the religious edict, which was itself part of the constitution, in order to clarify the priority of the religious edict.

In the years that followed, the constitution was endangered several times because Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich tried to restrict the representative South German constitutions and, if possible, to remove them again, as he saw his conservative system threatened. Two parties were then formed in the Bavarian Ministry, one of which defended the independence of the state and the constitution, including Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld, Prince Carl Philipp von Wrede and the General Director and later Minister Georg Friedrich von Zentner . Count Aloys von Rechberg led the other side, the aristocratic-clerical party, which believed that only Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich could find protection against the dangers of the revolution. Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld was able to enforce against Count Aloys von Rechberg, with the help of the Crown Prince, that the Karlsbad Resolutions v. September 20, 1819 in Bavaria were only published with a reservation that made their effect illusory. It can probably be attributed to Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld's party that instead of Count Aloys von Rechberg, General Director Georg Friedrich von Zentner was sent to the Vienna Ministerial Conference as Bavarian representative, with whom he remained in constant contact; the most urgent danger to the representative constitutions could then be averted through the Vienna Final Act . However, over the course of time Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich succeeded in expanding his power and winning the Bavarian king on his side, so that even the position of Prince Carl Philipp von Wrede and Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld was endangered after Metternich's visit to Munich in January 1823, no longer had any political influence and was only limited to the administration of his department. After the death of King Maximilian I Joseph in 1825, Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld, who until then had maintained a special relationship of trust with the Crown Prince, was dismissed from the ministry and Joseph von Armansperg was appointed his successor. He himself was appointed as Bundestag envoy in Frankfurt am Main and stayed there until 1833. In May 1833 he was once again given the leadership of the Ministry of Finance and he succeeded in passing the law on the king's permanent civil list and the approval of the funds for the construction of the state fortress Ingolstadt to enforce at the stands.

On December 31, 1834, he resigned from the Ministry and became envoy to Vienna. He turned down the offer to take up the post of Prime Minister in Greece, but was able to suggest Ignaz von Rudhart to fill this position . In 1842 he was transferred back to the Bundestag in Frankfurt at his own request.

Maximilian Emanuel Lerchenfeld married on August 14, 1805 in Mindelheim Luise Regine Sibylle Rosina (born March 10, 1787 in Ulm ; † February 27, 1834 in Munich), a daughter of the Ulm merchant Friedrich Karl von Hailbronner (1724–1779). Your children were:

He died on October 14, 1843 on his estate in Heinersreuth.

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography: Lerchenfeld, Maximilian Freiherr von - German biography. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Bavarian legations (19th / 20th century) - Historical Lexicon of Bavaria. Retrieved on March 30, 2018 (German (Sie-Salutation)).
  3. ↑ GEDBAS: Maximilian Emanuel LERCHENFELD. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 31, 2018 ; accessed on March 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Official Statistics - Historical Lexicon of Bavaria. Retrieved on March 30, 2018 (German (Sie-Salutation)).
  5. ^ State Office for Statistics - History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 30, 2011 ; accessed on March 30, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Family tree of Ludwig Hermann von Lerchenfeld. Retrieved March 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lerchenfeld, Maximilian Emanuel von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lerchenfeld, Maximilian E. von; Lerchenfeld, Maximilian von; Lerchenfeld, Max von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1843
Place of death Presseck