"Ein echter deutscher Biedermanns" ! : Matthäus Reiser in njegovo županovanje v Mariboru

slovenian

2017

volume 17, issue 3

Zgodovinsko društvo dr. Franca Kovačiča v Mariboru
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

Matthäus Reiser was second member of his family to lead the City of Maribor. Born in the Grand Duchy of Baden in Southern Germany in 1830, he was brought to Lower Styria by his uncle Othmar Reiser, who served as Mayor of Maribor as well, already as a boy. The younger Reiser married Ida Puchelt, a protestant of Saxon origins, twenty-one years his junior. Serving at the City Council ever since 1861, he was elected mayor at the relatively young age of 40, remaining in this position for next twelve years. His tenure can be described as a small Maribor counterpiece to the "Gründerzeit" in Vienna. Immediately after the death of the famous son of Maribor, Wilhelm Tegetthoff, an initiative to erect a monument in his honour was started. On the other hand, Reiser opposed the activities of Maribor Slovenes to erect a monument to Anton Martin Slomšek, bishop of Lavant. Reiser died in 1895.

15.10.2021