Theobald von Fuchs

Theobald Ritter von Fuchs (1910)

Coat of arms of the Ritter von Fuchs (1910)

Theobald Fuchs , since 1910 Ritter von Fuchs , (born June 30, 1852 in Schrobenhausen , Upper Bavaria , † February 1, 1943 in Garmisch , Upper Bavaria) was a Bavarian administrative lawyer and politician.

Life

Fuchs was born the son of a tax officer, attended elementary school in Schrobenhausen from 1858 to 1863 and the humanistic grammar school in Neuburg an der Donau from 1863 to 1871 . He then studied law at the University of Munich from 1871 to 1875 , completed his legal internship from 1875 to 1878 and found his first job at the District Court of Munich I. On January 1, 1880, following his own application, he became legally qualified mayor of the Upper Franconian city of Forchheim . As early as November 17, 1882, Fuchs applied for the mayor's office in Kissingen (only from 1883 Bad Kissingen ), was unanimously elected legally qualified mayor by the Kissingen community college in the same year (initially on a probationary basis) and received his official induction on May 3 January 1883. After his re-election he received the post from January 1, 1886 for life; on July 1, 1886, he was granted citizenship by resolution of the city ​​council .

During his tenure as mayor, Fuchs was able to receive numerous crowned heads from all over Europe and personalities of international diplomacy in the spa town. In addition, in 1883 Kissingen was raised to the status of a “royal Bavarian bath” and in 1908 it was granted freedom of the district . For this solemn occasion, Fuchs wore the official chain made especially for this reason by the Bavarian court goldsmith Theodor Heiden in 1907 , which is still worn today by the respective Lord Mayor.

After a serious operation in April 1917, Fuchs retired as Mayor of Bad Kissingen on October 1, 1917. In September 1917 he moved to Munich , after the death of his wife in 1931 to Garmisch. He died there, but was buried in Munich's Ostfriedhof .

Parliamentarians

Fuchs was elected to the Chamber of Deputies , the second chamber of the Bavarian State Parliament, for the first time in the state elections in 1893 (constituency Neustadt ad Saale ). He was a member of the state parliament until the revolution in 1918; Re-elections in 1899 and 1905 in the Neustadt ad Saale constituency, in 1907 and 1912 in the Bad Kissingen constituency. He belonged to the faction of the Center Party and can be attributed to its Catholic-Conservative wing; in 1912 he was elected to the parliamentary group executive committee. In the Chamber, Fuchs served as 3rd Secretary from 1893 to 1897 and from 1899 to 1903, since January 1903 as 2nd Vice-President and since October 1907 as 1st Vice-President. On January 31, 1917, he was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies to succeed the late Georg von Orterer . In this capacity, after the revolution, on November 12th and December 8th, he publicly protested against the obstruction of the Chamber, which he considered to be still in existence.

Center protocols

Fuchs is of outstanding importance for research into the Bavarian national history and the history of parliamentarism in Germany because he continuously recorded the meetings of the center group from 1893 to 1914. A comparable source for the time before 1914 does not exist for any other parliamentary group in Germany. Fuchs was well prepared for this job because during his student days he had worked as a stenographer in both chambers of the Bavarian state parliament and in the German Reichstag . The minutes are written in non-Reformed Gabelsberger shorthand and handed down in the stenographers' office of the Bavarian State Parliament. Since this shorthand can only be read by a few people today, the Regensburg historian Dieter Albrecht deserves the credit of having made the protocols accessible to research in a five-volume edition, annotated and indexed through a differentiated index.

Orders and decorations

Fuchs has received numerous medals and decorations, including internationally. In 1901 he was given the title of "Royal Bavarian Councilor " and in 1902 the honorary title of "Royal Bavarian Privy Councilor" followed. In 1910, Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria raised him to the Bavarian personal, non-inheritable nobility by awarding him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown . Finally, in 1918, he was given the title of “Royal Bavarian Secret Council ” with the address “Excellency”. Theobald-von-Fuchs-Strasse was named after him in Bad Kissingen and he himself was made an honorary citizen of the city by a municipal resolution of July 24, 1917 and a resolution of the community college of July 25, 1917 .

literature

• Dieter Albrecht (Ed.): The minutes of the parliamentary group of the Bavarian Center Party 1893-1914. 5 volumes (series of publications on Bavarian regional history, volumes 91, 92, 93, 94, 102), Munich: CH Beck 1989–1993.
• Peter Weidisch: Your Excellency Theobald Ritter von Fuchs . In: Peter Weidisch, Thomas Ahnert (eds.): “1200 years Bad Kissingen (801-2001). Facets of a city's history ”. Festschrift and book accompanying the exhibition, Verlag TA Schachenmayer, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-929278-16-2 .
• Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German biographical encyclopedia . 2nd Edition. Vol. 3, Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25033-0 .

Web links

Commons : Theobald Fuchs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Theobald von Fuchs in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Albrecht (Ed.): The protocols of the parliamentary group of the Bavarian Center Party Volume 1: 1893–1899, Munich 1989, (introduction), pp. 40–42 (short biography).
2. ↑ Dieter Albrecht (Ed.): The protocols of the parliamentary group of the Bavarian Center Party Volume 1: 1893–1899, Munich 1989, (introduction) p. 41.
3. ↑ Dieter Albrecht (Ed.): The protocols of the parliamentary group of the Bavarian Center Party Volume 1: 1893–1899, Munich 1989, (introduction) p. 42.