Philipp Franz Kremer

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Philipp Franz Kremer (born November 3, 1765 in Würzburg , † September 3, 1854 in Augsburg ), was a Bavarian lawyer, member of parliament and businessman.

Life

The son of the married couple Felix Kremer, innkeeper of the white swan, landowner and wine merchant in Würzburg, and Gertrud, née Riautz, attended the Schillingsfürst educational center (Convict) after the Würzburg Latin school, then studied poetry and rhetoric, physics and mathematics as well as law in Würzburg and Jena and graduated with a doctorate in philosophy. After his father's death, he switched to commercial training, which he completed, among other things, at the commercial and banking business Pilgram & Sons in Munich and at companies in Trieste and Lyon . In 1790 he settled in Augsburg and opened a materials store. In 1794 he acquired the Philippine Welser House. From 1793 he was an assessor at the city court of the Free Imperial City of Augsburg and was responsible as a deputy for the " Rottwesen " (packing and haulage of trade routes). On February 9, 1806, Kremer traveled to Munich with other Augsburg dignitaries in order to express the king "the highest respect of the entire merchant class". After the handover of Augsburg by the French city commandant to the Bavarian handover commission on March 4, 1806. he belonged to the "Royal Bavarian Exchange Court" was elected to the municipal council and confirmed in this function in 1816. The Augsburg merchants elected him as assessor of the trade committee and as "chamber master" to the board of directors.

In the Augsburg civil military, Kremer initially served as 1st major of the staff; In 1811 he was appointed "Lieutenant Colonel" of the National Guard III. Class by King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria .

From 1818 (re-election in 1824 and 1830) to 1836 he was the second “bourgeois” mayor of Augsburg. He was a member of the first class of the exclusive society association "Harmonie", which was founded in 1808 "to promote social interaction between educated men from all classes". In 1818 he was elected to the management of the "Polytechnic Association" for Augsburg. In 1819 the Augsburg magistrate, led by Kremer, turned against the policy of the 1st mayor Johann Nepomuk von Caspar and in 1821 prevented his re-election. In 1822 the government councilor and city commissioner Dr. Wirschinger Kremer in the name of the king the golden civil merit medal . In 1824 he organized the visit of King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria to Augsburg and was the second mayor - together with his wife as maid of honor - guest of the royal lunch table. He also played a key role in the stay of King Ludwig I in Augsburg in 1829.

From 1825 to 1834 he was a member of the Bavarian Parliament (Landtag; Chamber of Deputies ) in Munich for the Upper Danube District. At the provincial parliaments of 1825, 1827, 1831 and 1834, among other things, he presented the draft for a new bill of exchange process and submitted applications to trade in foreign government papers, to restrict freedom of trade, to trade in the fair and peddler trade and to reduce trade patents for Jewish companies.

After bankruptcy proceedings, he passed his company on to his eldest son Matthias in 1828 as a dealership for “materials, colors and specialty goods” and limited himself to speculative and space business.

In 1791 Kremer married Maria Josepha Ott from Roßhaupten, daughter of an electoral fish master. Of the 18 children in this marriage, only six survived (until 1833): Matthias (* 1792), who took over the father's business, Anton Felix (* 1795); he was a victim of the cholera epidemic in Augsburg in 1854¸ Josephine (1822–1856), married to the officer Johann Illig; Philipp Franz Alois (1823–1885), ran a glove factory with his brother Emil (* around 1834/35), and Emanuel (* around 1840), who died in 1860 as a law student.

Like his son Anton Felix, Philipp Franz Kremer was also a victim of the cholera epidemic , which claimed over a thousand lives in Augsburg. He was buried on September 6, 1854 in the Catholic cemetery in Augsburg.

literature

  • Christian Karl André (Ed.): Hesperus. Encyclopedic magazine for educated readers. Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1809–1832.
  • Handbook for the Upper Danube District edited from the official resources of Georg Friedrich Kramer, registry functionary at the royal government Chamber of the Interior. Self-published by the author, Augsburg 1831.
  • Latest chronicle of the royal Bavarian district capital Augsburg from 1818 to 1833 from Anton Barth's first mayor. Published by the author's publishing house, Augsburg 1833.
  • Brief history of the city of Augsburg for use in the elementary schools by Anton Barth, quizzing first legally qualified mayor, 2nd volume, Kranzfelder'sche Verlagshandlung, Augsburg 1834, p. 206.
  • Frank Möller: Civil rule in Augsburg 1790-1880. Oldenbourg, Munich 1998.
  • Frank Möller: Bourgeoisie as a protective community. Augsburg 1794-1818 , in: Historical magazine. Booklets. New episode, vol. 14: From the old to the new bourgeoisie. The Central European city in upheaval 1780–1820. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH (1991), pp. 559-603.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Latest chronicle of the royal Bavarian district capital Augsburg (1833), p. 43
  2. ↑ Handbook for the Upper Danube District (1831), p. 59
  3. ↑ https://stadtplanung.augsburg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/_imported/fileadmin/portale/stadtplanung/Publikationen/Tag_des_offenen_Denkmals_2002.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / stadtplanung.augsburg.de  
  4. ↑ Augsburg's new and improved city and council calendar for the leap year after the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ 1804 , in: https://books.google.de/books?id=99k_AAAAcAAJ
  5. ↑ Möller, p. 95
  6. ↑ Möller, p. 96
  7. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1819, p. 357
  8. ↑ Möller, p. 99
  9. ↑ Königlich-Baierisches Regierungsblatt, July 20, 1811, Sp. 901–902
  10. ^ District intelligence sheet of the Royal Bavarian Government of the Upper Danube District for the year 1818, p. 897
  11. ^ Intelligence sheet and weekly gazette of the royal Bavarian city of Augsburg, October 2, 1824, p. 329
  12. ↑ 1825 renamed: "Eintracht"
  13. ↑ Möller, p. 127
  14. ↑ Möller, p. 177
  15. ↑ Möller, p. 229
  16. ^ Augsburgische Ordinari Postzeitung, No. 278, November 20, 1822
  17. ↑ Möller, p. 108
  18. ↑ Joseph August Adam: Augsburg's Jubel-Tage in 1824. A historical consecration gift for the annals of this famous city. Augsburg. Printed and available from JCWirth, on St.Annaplatz (1825), in: https://books.google.de/books?id=fhZEAAAAcAAJ : Royal lunch table: Bavarian vassals, state officials and citizens. Titl. Mr. Philipp Franz Kremer, 2nd Mayor of Augsburg; P. 69: VII. List of names of the twelve ladies of honor: Titl. Mrs. Josephe Kremer, née Ott, wife of the second mayor of Augsburg
  19. ↑ Möller, p. 108
  20. ↑ Latest Chronicle, 1833, p. 45
  21. ^ Advertisement, Augsburg, January 1, 1828, in: Hesperus, No. 51, February 28, 1828, p. 204
  22. ^ RegensburgerTagblatt, No. 246, September 7, 1854, p. 1101
  23. ↑ When cholera raged in Augsburg - Augsburger Allgemeine, in: www.augsburger-allgemeine.de ›Specials› Augsburger Geschichte from October 20, 2016: In 1854 the infectious disease claimed 1,176 lives. Doctors and authorities recommended cleanliness, trust in God and calmness
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SURNAME Kremer, Philipp Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian lawyer, member of parliament and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1854
Place of death augsburg