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Franz Kirms (21 December 1750 – 3 May 1826) was the official comrade of
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirms, Franz German theatre directors 1750 births 1826 deaths Place of birth missing 18th-century businesspeople from the Holy Roman Empire
Franz Kirms (21 December 1750 – 3 May 1826) was the official comrade of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...
in the management of the Weimar Theatre and as a flower lover. He was born in the Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. It developed in the Early Middle Ages, and lasted for a millennium ...
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Life
Kirms came from a family of civil servants who lived since 1701 in a house built around 1520 in Jakobstraße 10. He was a tax official from 1789 and from 1814 Privy Councillor inWeimar
Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together w ...
. Duke Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Karl August, sometimes anglicised as Charles Augustus (3 September 1757 – 14 June 1828), was the sovereign Duke of Saxe-Weimar and of Saxe-Eisenach (in personal union) from 1758, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from its creation (as a political u ...
entrusted him with the supervision of the Hofmarschall- and Stallamt. Besides, Kirms was a passionate flower lover to whom Duke Carl August handed over rare plants from his travels for breeding.
Since 1791 he supported Goethe at the Theaterintendanz. He was in charge of the actual business administration of the Weimar Theatre, which he led very skilfully and energetically after Goethe's retirement together with Count Albert Cajetan von Edling until his death. In 1808 the theater laws were published. Goethe valued highly his performance.
On 27 December 1823, at the age of 73, Kirms married the forty-two year old Erdmuthe Sophie, called Caroline, Krackow (1779-1866), who since 1804 was the partner of the hereditary great duchess Maria Pawlowna, the tsar's daughter and wife of the hereditary duke. The marriage remained childless.
Kims died in Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together w ...
at the age of 75.
The burial place of the Kirms-Krackow family is located on the historical cemetery in Weimar.
Appreciation
In a conversation with Chancellor Friedrich von Müller and Friedrich Soret on 16 March 1824, Goethe paid tribute to Franz Kirms in connection with his departure from the Theaterintendanz with the following words:Further reading
Geschichte über das Haus Kirms und Franz Kirms als PDF-Download
critical remarks on the curatorial concept of the exhibition (54 kB) * Hans Wahl, Anton Kippenberg: ''Goethe und seine Welt'',
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WorldCat
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Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1932
References
External links
Über den Blumenfreund und das Haus Kirms in Weimar
Suchergebnisse über Franz Kirms bei Zeno.org
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