Sigmund von Pfeufer

Sigmund Freiherr von Pfeufer

Sigmund Heinrich Pfeufer , from 1867 knight von Pfeufer , from 1881 baron von Pfeufer (born February 24, 1824 in Bamberg , † September 23, 1894 in Munich ) was a Bavarian lawyer , civil servant and politician .

Life

He was the son of Christian Pfeufer , director of the Bamberg Municipal Hospital and his second wife Charlotte Auguste, née Countess von Rotenhan (1789–1864). He studied law at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg . During his studies he became a member of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft Allemannia in 1844 and of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft Teutonia in 1845 . Then he worked as an intern at the regional courts in Bamberg and Munich and as private secretary to the finance minister Gustav von Lerchenfeld , during his short term in office, in 1848. Then Sigmund Pfeufer went to Speyer as a judicial actuary , in 1854 he was promoted to secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, and in 1862 to Munich Police director and in 1866 government director in the government of Swabia .

Pfeufer was the district president of the Rhine Palatinate from 1867 to 1871 and initiated a. a. In 1869 the historical association of the Palatinate was re-established . On August 23, 1871, he was appointed to the cabinet of Friedrich von Hegnenberg-Dux as Bavarian Minister of the Interior . After leaving this office on June 30, 1881, he succeeded Maximilian von Feilitzsch and was President of the Upper Bavarian Government until 1894 .

Sigmund Pfeufer was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown on December 23, 1867 in the Bavarian knighthood . The elevation to the hereditary Bavarian baron took place on June 24, 1881 with matriculation (entry) in the Kingdom of Bavaria with the baron class on September 17, 1881.

The physician Karl von Pfeufer (1806–1869) was his older half-brother.

tomb

Grave of Sigmund Pfeufer in the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The grave of Sigmund Pfeufer is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (grave field 3 - row 12 - place 52) location .

Honors

• Honorary citizen of the city of Speyer on August 22, 1871, on the occasion of his recall from the Rheinpfalz
• Honorary citizen of the city of Munich on the occasion of his 70th birthday in February 1894
• Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown on December 23, 1867

Pfeuferstraße in Munich-Sendling was named after Sigmund von Pfeufer.

literature

• Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities. Hennig Verlag Edenkoben, 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , pp. 669-670.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 310-311.
• The regional presidents of Upper Bavaria in the 19th and 20th centuries. Edited on behalf of Werner-Hans Böhm by Stephan Deutinger, Karl-Ulrich Gelberg and Michael Stephan; Government of Upper Bavaria, Munich 2005; ISBN 3-921635-91-8 .

Web links

Commons : Sigmund von Pfeufer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Memorial site of the city of Speyer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data page from the University of Jena, on Christian von Pfeufer
2. ↑ Rotenhan, Julius Freiherr von: History of the Rotenhan family, older line. Printed as a manuscript for the family. Wuerzburg 1865.
3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, page 320, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN  0435-2408
4. ^ Eberhard J. Wormer :  Pfeufer, Carl Sebastian von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 332 f. ( Digitized version ). - with mention of Sigmund von Pfeufer as a brother