Raimund Bannwarth

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Karl Raimund Friedrich Bannwarth (born March 7, 1795 in Vienna ; † June 1864 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was Lord Mayor of Freiburg from 1828 to 1832 .

Life

Raimund Bannwarth was the only surviving child of a K. and K. court secretary in Vienna. After the early death of his parents, he came to Freiburg in 1799 and received an imperial pension for “special merits” from his father. He later worked as a young civil servant in Trento and returned to Dreisam in 1820, married to a woman from Freiburg. Even in these years he still hoped that the Breisgau would return to Austria.

His attitude changed when, in August 1827, the guilds elected Bannwarth by a large majority after the sudden death of his predecessor Fidel André as mayor. In a letter to a friend, Bannwarth wrote: “Because this position does not involve any pensionability, nor is a mayor a public servant at all, I was not inclined to accept the position, but the Grand Duke, who personally was very inclined to me and wanted the government it."

He accepted the election, but continued to be annoyed about the “only very modest payment for the honorable office”, in which only the expenses were reimbursed. When Baden introduced the new municipal code in 1832, the guilds no longer voted, but the Quartiere d. H. citizens entitled to vote have a mayor and a councilor every six years (the title of mayor was no longer applicable). Bannwarth wrote to his friend: "Most oppressive to me was the stipulation that new elections should take place every six years, and that as mayor I would have had to depend entirely on the grace of Janhagels (the people)."

During Bannwarth's tenure in 1829, the Zähringer suburb was designed with the modern, exemplary hospital hospital. The Grand Duke awarded him the Zähringen Order of the Lion for his services in 1830 .

With the July Revolution in France, the liberals or, as the aristocratic Bannwarth put it, "the vertigo" raised their heads in Breisgau as well. Feeling that his government was coming to an end, he asked to be resumed in civil service in the fall of 1832 and was appointed city administrator. His employers described him as one of the civil servants "who conscientiously fulfill their duty, show exemplary diligence and are loyal to the high state government."

The post of Freiburg mayor remained vacant until January 1833, when the liberal Karl von Rotteck clearly won the mayoral election against his conservative rival Bannwarth.

Raimund Banwarth died in June 1864 and was buried in the old cemetery .

Individual evidence

  1. in Böttcher
  2. in Böttcher
  3. in Hartmann, page 64
  4. in Böttcher

literature

  • Michaela Hartmann, Heiko Haumann , Annette Lindner, Rüdiger von Treskow and Hartmut Zoche, The stain of revolutionism and an end with horror (1815–1849) in Heiko Haumann and Hans Schadek (eds.): History of the City of Freiburg im Breisgau , Volume 3 , Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-8062-1635-6
  • Karin-Anne Böttcher, Loyal to the high state government, Badische Zeitung October 1, 1998
predecessor Office successor
Fidel André Lord Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau
1828–1832
Joseph von Rotteck