Otto von Völderndorff and Waradein

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Heinrich Otto Freiherr von Völderndorff und Waradein (born June 12, 1825 in Zweibrücken , † December 10, 1899 in Munich ) was a German lawyer, Bavarian ministerial official as well as a writer and specialist author.

Life

Otto von Völderndorff came from a Lower Austrian family. When the father, the Bavarian treasurer and general procurator Eduard Friedrich Erdmann Franz Freiherr von Völderndorff (1788-1827) died, he left behind his second wife, Maria Antonia, née Countess von Reigersberg (1802-1881), with two of his own and four stepchildren. After she was initially taken in by her father, she gave Otto and two of his stepbrothers to the Protestant pastor Gottfried Walker in Haunsheim on the edge of the Swabian Alb in 1853 . In 1860, at the age of thirteen, Otto was admitted to the royal pagerie in Munich (educational institute at his own expense for children of the matriculated Bavarian nobility), where he stayed for five years.

For five years he then attended the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In his two-year undergraduate studies, he dealt with foreign languages ​​such as Hebrew, Sanskrit and Chinese. He was awarded a "public commendation" for processing a prize question about the origin of the Roman names of gods. At the request of his grandfather, Count von Reigersberg, he went on to study law in the third year, among others with the economist Friedrich von Hermann and the lawyer Hieronymus von Bayer . In 1848 he also took part in the revolutionary student movements of 1848, became a captain in the student volunteer corps and president of the general student assembly. He joined the views of the liberal nobles of the second chamber , Hermann von Rotenhan , Gustav von Lerchenfeld , Gottlieb von Thon-Dittmer , Friedrich von Hegnenberg-Dux , Adolf von Scheurl , von Bassus, von Lindenfels and von Pfetten, and became a freelancer of the "Nürnberger Kurier".

On October 18, 1848, he passed the university exam. In 1850 he received his doctorate as "Doctor utriusque juris" with a legal treatise "On the teaching of the decree" (ie the cancellation of contracts) and passed the "Staatsconcurs" with "Grade I" in the same year. He then traveled to Italy, where he studied the glossators and the canonical collections in the Vatican Library in Rome . This was followed by another legal internship at the Munich Regional Court, an activity as an accessist at the district and city court and an internship with a lawyer. In 1854 he was promoted to ministerial secretary and in 1856 to secret secretary. In 1862 he was transferred to the newly established Commercial Court of Appeal in Nuremberg in the function of a commercial judge. In 1867 he moved to the Ministry of the Royal House and Foreign Affairs as Ministerialrat , where he worked for 30 years. He had to negotiate with Richard Wagner when the king gave the order to come closer to his political ideas, and he also came into personal contact with Otto von Bismarck . He was deeply touched by the efforts of the Bavarian Prime Minister Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst to reestablish a connection with Germany beyond the Main line. On behalf of the Prime Minister he drafted a "Constitution for the South German Confederation", which first appeared in the "Allgemeine Zeitung", and which he - as well as the "Draft for a connection between the North German and the South German Confederation on the basis of the Peace of Prague" and the "Draft of a contract for the establishment of a railway association" - published in "Hirth's Annalen". From 1879 onwards, the numerous presentations he worked on included the function of "Rhine shipping representative". In 1893 he was appointed to the Privy Council and on October 10, 1895 to the Council of State in extraordinary service.

Otto von Völderndorff was married to Marie, née Kray; the marriage remained childless.

Fonts

Otto von Völderndorff published numerous legal writings. In 1851 he wrote an “Introduction to the Study of Law”, in 1856 a “treatise on the“ Papiere au porteur ”(interest-bearing government paper) according to Bavarian law”, and in 1857 a study “On the form of legal transactions and commentaries on the laws, guarantees concerning the sale of livestock "(1860)," Limitation periods "(1859)," Amendments to civil law "," Claims of the State Debt Redemption Institution "(1861)," Law of October 5, 1863, concerning some provisions of the general German bill of exchange regulations "(1867) and the "Draft of a law on matrimonial property law on the basis of the Bavarian statutory rights", 1867. Furthermore, a "Commentar on the Reich Concurs Order", a further "Commentar on the Reich Law, concerning the Commanditgesellschaft auf Actien and the Actiengesellschaft" (1884) and "German Constitution and Draft Constitution" (1890). He also made contributions to the “Blätter für Rechtsanaltung”, the “Blätter für Administrative Praxis und Policegerichtspflege initially in Bavaria”, the “Allgemeine Zeitung” and the “Münchener Zeitung”, the magazine “Dergerichtssaal”, the “Zeitschrift für Civilrecht und Trial ”,“ Hitzig's Annals of German and Foreign Criminal Law Care ”and others.

Since the beginning of the seventies he has published columnar essays, for example in the supplement of the Allgemeine Zeitung his “Harmless Chats of an Old Munich Man” about travel, politics, Darwin, economics, French, literature and art, etc. etc. and also “From my time at court” , and “From the Imperial Chancellor Prince von Hohenlohe. Memories".

literature

  • Gottfried von Böhm: "Völderndorff und Waradein, Otto Freiherr von" in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 54 (1908), pp. 758–764 [online version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd121477347.html#adbcontent
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser, seventh year (1857), pp. 809–813; Seventieth Volume (1920), p. 895

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His nephew Karl Otto Freiherr von Voelderndorff and Waradein, born October 24, 1847 in Nördlingen, son of the lawyer and notary in Munich Eduard Wilhelm August Karl Heinrich Veit Freiherr von Voelderndorff and Waradein (* May 12, 1812; † April 15, 1880) , passed the Abitur examination at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich in 1866
  2. ↑ Ernst Heirich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon. 9th volume. Steinhaus – Zwierlein. Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1870
  3. ^ Franz von Völderndorff, see: "Reigersberg, Heinrich Alois Graf von" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 21 (2003), pp. 329-330 [online version]; URL: https: //www.deutsche-biographie-de/pnd116404590.html#ndbcontent
  4. ^ Daughter of Heinrich Graf von Reigersberg (1770–1865 Munich), Reich Chamberlain and Bavarian Minister of Justice, and his wife Therese Countess von Lodron-Laterano († November 4, 1865)
  5. ^ Printed by Christian Kaiser publishing house in Munich
  6. ↑ No. 85, March 26, 1870
  7. ↑ Georg Hirth (Ed.): Annals of the German Reich for Legislation, Administration and Economics, year 1890, p. 241 ff.
  8. ↑ Erlangen, Palm & Enke (Adolph Enke)
  9. ↑ Erlangen, Palm & Enke
  10. ↑ in 3 volumes; "Experienced the second edition in 1884, although he occasionally spiced up the somewhat dry material with a drastic example and instead of Cajus and Sempronius introduced the student Lustig, the housewife Brummig and the cleaning lady Lieblich" (G. v. Böhm, ADB)
  11. ↑ Erlangen, Palm & Enke
  12. ↑ Georg Hirth, Munich
  13. ^ Johann Adam Seuffert (ed.), Palm & Enke, Erlangen
  14. ^ CH Beck, Noerdlingen
  15. ^ Enke, Stuttgart
  16. ↑ JTB Linde (ed.), Giessen
  17. ↑ these also collected in two volumes. CH Beck, Munich 1892 and 1898
  18. ↑ in: Velhagen and Klasingsmonthshefte, issue 6, February 1900
  19. ^ Verlag der Allgemeine Zeitung, Munich 1902; Thereof also separate reprints from the supplement of the Allgemeine Zeitung
personal data
SURNAME Völderndorff and Waradein, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otto Freiherr von Völderndorff-Waradein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, writer and specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1899
Place of death Munich