Otto Hörmann from Hörbach

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Otto Hörmann von Hörbach mostly shortened to Otto von Hörmann (born March 4, 1848 in Zweibrücken , † July 15, 1923 in Speyer ) was a Bavarian nobleman and doctor.

family

The Hörmann von Hörbach are an aristocratic family from Tyrol , with a letter of nobility from Emperor Joseph II for Johann Joseph Hörmann von Hörbach (1719–1796), dated March 11, 1785. He was Otto von Hörmann's great-great-grandfather. The entry in the aristocratic registers of the Kingdom of Bavaria took place in 1814 after Otto von Hörmann's grandfather Joseph Hörmann von Hörbach (1778-1852) from Tyrol had transferred to Bavarian services.

Live and act

Otto Hörmann von Hörbach was born the son of the Bavarian appellate judge Goswin Hörmann von Hörbach (1810–1873) and his wife Julie Alwens (1823–1849) from Speyer, daughter of the then regional president of the Rhine Palatinate , Franz Alwens (1792–1871) ). However, she died in 1849 and the father married her sister Susanne Alwens (1828–1899). Otto von Hörmann raised them as a stepmother and aunt. After the death of her husband in 1873 she devoted herself to religiously motivated poor relief in Munich, became a Benedictine on the advice of Speyer Bishop Daniel Bonifaz von Haneberg, and died in 1899 as sister Lioba and prioress of the Frauenchiemsee monastery . The foundation of the daughter monastery in Tettenweis goes back to her.

Otto von Hörmann studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1871 with a thesis on the hospital fire . He became assistant to Professor Max von Pettenkofer . He came to Speyer with him in 1873 when the last cholera epidemic was raging there. At that time he made great contributions in combating the epidemic; his reports on the course of the epidemic are still available today in the Palatinate State Library (call number H 175).

Hörmann stayed in Speyer, the home of his mother and stepmother, and served there as a district doctor from 1873 to 1917. Since 1908 he had the title of Medical Councilor, later of Senior Medical Councilor . In view of his services to the city of Speyer, Doktor-von-Hörmann-Strasse was named after him.

The doctor died in 1923 and was buried in the main cemetery in Speyer . The monumental tomb has been preserved there, unfortunately in a rather neglected condition (2012).

Otto von Hörmann was married to Anna Moll from Kandel (1851-1919). Her daughter Julie Elisabeth (* Speyer 1876) married Gustav von Heydenaber , Bavarian Lieutenant General and commander of the 19th Bavarian Infantry Regiment in Erlangen, or the 10th Royal Bavarian Infantry Brigade , in 1896 .

Winfried Hörmann von Hörbach (1821–1896), Bavarian State Minister, was Otto von Hörmann's uncle (his father's brother); his other uncle was the Bavarian state parliament member Karl von Alwens (1820-1889), his mother's brother and stepmother. Karoline Roos , b. Alwens, a sister of his mother or stepmother, was murdered in 1896.

literature

  • Justus Perthes : Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen Häuser , 1912 edition, pages 440–442; (Digital scan)
  • Jakob Bisson : Seven Speyer bishops and their time , Pilger-Verlag Speyer, 1956, pages 76 and 77
  • Pfälzer Heimat (magazine), Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer, year 1973, page 153 (commemoration of the 50th anniversary of death)
  • Herbert Dellwing : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany / cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate , 1985, page 86, ISBN 3590310316 ; Excerpts from the source: 1st part - 2nd part

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Heinrich von Lang: Book of the nobility of the Kingdom of Baiern : Basic work, Volume 1, page 389; Scan from the source
  2. ↑ About the history of the Hörmann von Hörbach family
  3. ↑ Speyerer weekly advertisement sheet , year 1823, page 308; Scan from source; Birth announcement of Julie Alwens
  4. ^ Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches, Volume 85, Page 580, Pustet Verlag, Regensburg, 1974; Excerpt from the source
  5. ↑ Website on the history of the St. Gertrud Monastery in Tettenweis, with mention of Lioba von Hörmann ( memento from September 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ How to find the dissertation
  7. ↑ Jakob Bisson : Seven Speyer bishops and their time , Pilger-Verlag Speyer, 1956, page 76
  8. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: find information on Hörmann's cholera reports )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / 217.198.244.66
  9. ↑ Jurisprudence and Medical Legislation, 1908, Volume 1 Scan from the source
  10. ^ August Sieghardt: Upper Palatinate: Landscape, History, Culture, Art , 1965, pages 505 to 507; Excerpts from the source on the Heydenaber family, with a mention of Julie Elisabeth von Hörmann
  11. ^ Justus Perthes : Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen Häuser , edition 1908, p. 486; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Hörmann from Hörbach, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hörmann von, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian nobleman and physician; Senior Medical Council
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1923
Place of death Speyer