Theodor Pfülf
Theodor Pfülf (born September 3, 1866 in Speyer , Pfalz (Bavaria) , † July 11, 1953 in Munich ) was a Bavarian administrative officer and lawyer, from 1928 to 1932 regional president of the Bavarian Rhine Palatinate and board member of the Historical Association of the Palatinate.
Life
Theodor Pfülf was born as the 12th child of the Speyer pharmacist Karl August Pfülf in the sun pharmacy . He attended school and grammar school in Speyer and then studied law in Würzburg , Munich and Erlangen . He was a member of the Corps Moenania (1885) and Isaria (1886). After passing his exams, he received his first state employment on September 20, 1893, as a district assessor in Kirchheimbolanden . On April 9, 1902, he was appointed government assessor at the district administration in Speyer . Already on September 12, 1903, the man from Palatinate advanced to the position of district administrator ( Landrat ) in Mühldorf am Inn in Upper Bavaria . After six years of activity, Pfülf switched to the Upper Franconian government in Bayreuth on April 1, 1909, and to the Upper Bavaria government in Munich from July 1, 1916 .
On July 1, 1917, Theodor Pfülf was promoted to senior government councilor in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior and to Ministerialrat on October 1, 1919 . Here in the interior department, the government official earned lasting services in the areas of health police as well as doctors and pharmacies. The medical faculty of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the University of Veterinary Medicine Munich recognized Pfülf's work with the award of two honorary doctorates (Dr. med. Hc and Dr. med. Vet. Hc).
Pfülf went to the Bavarian Administrative Court in Munich as attorney general on January 1, 1926 .
Palatinate District President
At the end of his civil service career, Theodor Pfülf returned to his home in the Palatinate. As the successor to the meritorious Jakob Mathèus , he took over the office of regional president of the Palatinate on July 1, 1928 when he retired. This made him the highest government representative in Bavaria on the left bank of the Rhine.
Pfülf's task turned out to be all the more difficult because the Rhine Palatinate had been under French occupation since the end of the war, and attempts had even been made in 1923/24 to separate this area from the Free State of Bavaria and the German Empire. His direct predecessor still suffered in a manifest way from this episode of the Autonomous Palatinate and was only able to perform his office partly from Heidelberg on the right bank of the Rhine (outside the Bavarian Palatinate) . Theodor Pfülf, too, first had to coordinate all his decisions with the occupying power, but one already felt a clear improvement in the situation compared to before.
In 1930 he was able to experience the withdrawal of the French and the complete reintegration of his area into Bavaria. At midnight from June 30 to July 1, 1930, Theodor Pfülf welcomed the first hundred Bavarian riot police to move into the liberated Palatinate with “a brilliant speech” and “to the roaring cheers of a crowd of thousands”. The 12-year occupation came to an end and full state sovereignty was restored.
In the same year, on July 12, he received the Bavarian pretender to the throne, Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, and on July 19, the Reich President Paul von Hindenburg .
Pfülf was very interested in history and chairman of the Palatinate Historical Society . He was always anxious to increase the collection of the Historisches Museum der Pfalz and to draw the general public's attention to it.
As a practicing Catholic, the official took a decidedly Christian point of view. He was also known especially for his sociability and his warm amiability towards everyone. An appreciation also emphasizes the “chivalrous manner in dealings with his subordinates”.
Theodor Pfülf retired on June 1, 1932. The previous day's Speyerer Zeitung wrote about it. a .:
“For him, as an exemplary civil servant, it was a matter of course that from the first to the last day of his presidency he looked after the economic and cultural interests of the entire population of the Palatinate with all warmth and dedication, with the great skill of his rich experience. He was completely absorbed in this activity ... He never made it easy for himself, never looked for a comfortable way out when there were difficulties to be overcome. "
The journal Pfälzisches Museum (organ of the historical association) notes in an appreciation of the July 1932 edition:
“ Even though he was only able to work here for almost four years, when he left, public opinion - the press of all shades - could happily testify to him that he was extremely interested in all questions of public life, the economy and culture and took an active part in the strictest impartiality, through an unswerving sense of justice and a deeply religious compassion for the severe emergencies, has earned the greatest respect and gratitude from the Palatinate. "
Theodor Pfülf retired in Munich and died there in 1953.
Others
Shortly before his death, the retired district president was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1953.
His older brother Otto Pfülf was a Jesuit priest , spiritual at the Germanicum in Rome and a well-known writer who u. a. wrote a 3-volume biography of Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler of Mainz .
District President Theodor Pfülf, as a devout Catholic and born in Speyer, personally led the solemn procession on Sunday, July 6, 1930, which crossed the Rhine bridge to the Baden side to pick up the new miraculous image of the Speyer Cathedral arriving from the pilgrimage site of Waghäusel . For this purpose, Pfülf had specially called up a Bavarian State Police command , which framed the reception militarily. The historical Madonna figure was burned by the French in 1794 and the previously saved foot of the baby Jesus is still kept as a relic. The new statue that Theodor Pfülf brought in - based on the appearance of the old one - was donated by Pope Pius XI. the Speyer Cathedral 1930 as an anniversary gift. The figure created by Professor August Weckbecker was personally consecrated by the Pope in Rome. She is venerated in the cathedral as the "Patrona Spirensis" to this day.
Theodor Pfülf's son, Hans Pfülf (1892–1969), was the husband of Gertraut Pschorr and was the owner of the Munich Pschorrbräu AG, President of the German Brewers Association, board member of the Munich Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and honorary senator of the local technical university. He was a member of the Bavarian Senate (2nd Chamber of Parliament), had the Bavarian Order of Merit and the "Hans-Pfülf Institute for Hop Research" in Wolnzach , district of Hüll, is named after him.
literature
- Viktor Carl: "Theodor Pfülf - A man full of creativity and drive"; Schifferstadter Tagblatt, 1956, No. 38; Speyerer Tagespost, No. 222 v. September 22, 1956.
- Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities, Hennig Verlag Edenkoben, 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , page 535 and 536
- "Pfälzisches Museum" magazine, Speyer July, 1932: Appreciation for retirement
Web links
- Site of the district of Mühldorf am Inn, with the name of Theodor Pfülf as district administrator 1903-1909
- Page about contributions by Theodor Pfülf in debates in the Bavarian Parliament
Individual evidence
- ↑ To the Sonnenapotheke Speyer and Fam. Pfülf ( Memento from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 141/515; 109/691
- ↑ Waghäusel Monastery
- ^ Karl Busch : August Weckbecker 1888–1939 . Schnell & Steiner, Munich Zurich 1963, catalog raisonné: No. 118, pp. 27, 53.
- ↑ On the Patrona Spirensis
- ↑ Hans Pfülf Institute for Hop Research
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfülf, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian District President in the Rheinpfalz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Speyer , Palatinate |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1953 |
| Place of death | Munich |