Michael Öchsner

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Michael Öchsner (1890)
Grave of Michael Öchsner in the old southern cemetery in Munich

Michael Öchsner (born February 2, 1816 in Munich ; † October 8, 1893 there ) was a Bavarian teacher, publicist and writer.

Life

Öchsner was the illegitimate son of a fisherman's daughter from Haslangkreit and a teacher from Munich. At the age of ten he became an orphan and grew up with his guardian Franz Xaver Perzl , also a teacher. He completed the teachers' seminar in Freising as a scholarship holder and became an assistant teacher in sometimes difficult circumstances and finally a teacher in several Upper Bavarian villages, most recently in Haidhausen . There he married Karoline Will (1812–1879) in 1844 , who was a handicraft teacher at his school. With her he had two sons and a daughter. In 1848 he went to Munich and helped set up the Protestant school sponsored by Queen Karoline . In 1854 he got a job at the parish school of Heilig Geist .

In the revolutionary year of 1848, Öchsner was accepted into the citizen singers' guild , which was shaped by liberal ideas. Even if he resigned the singing guild in 1860 under pressure from the government, his patriotism and his loyalty to the king retained a democratic and critical coloring.

With the support of his guild friend, the printer's owner Franz Datterer , Öchsner founded and edited the Bayerische Schulzeitung in 1856 , which in 1860 became an organ of the newly founded Bavarian teachers' association (today BLLV) . In 1860 the government forbade him to publish his newspaper because of critical articles about conditions in Bavarian schools and threatened to dismiss him from school service. In 1860 he founded a second newspaper under a pseudonym, the Bavarian School Friend ; A newspaper for schoolchildren followed in 1867. He also wrote school books and published song books with songs that he had composed and composed himself.

In 1860, Öchsner wrote the poem “For Bavaria”, which, set to music by Konrad Max Kunz in the same year , became the Bavarian national anthem, today the Bavarian anthem .

In his later years, Öchsner received numerous honors, including the Medal of Honor of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown . In 1875 he was granted retirement for health reasons. Michael Öchsner died on October 8, 1893 at the age of 77. His grave is in the old southern cemetery in Munich (grave field 35, row 1, place 30, location ). In 2006 the grave was extensively restored.

In September 2019, the city council of the LH Munich decided to name a street after him. It is located in the 22nd Munich district of Aubing-Lochhausen-Langwied. A street naming is the highest form of personal honor by the state capital Munich.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Michael Öchsner
  2. ^ Michael-Öchsner-Straße Michael-Öchsner-Straße . muenchen.swm.de. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Öchsner, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian teacher, publicist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1893
Place of death Munich