Franz Friedrich von Sturmfeder

Franz Friedrich of Sturmfeder ( born December 11, 1758 in Mannheim, † February 26, 1828 in Augsburg ) was a German Catholic priest. From 1812 to 1818 and from 1819 to 1821 he was vicar general and episcopal in Augsburg.

Franz Friedrich came from a noble family of Sturmfeder of Oppenweiler and was born as the son of Franz Georg Ernst von Sturmfeder in Mannheim.

Together with his brother Karl Theodor he grew up in Dirmstein on in his father's castle. There, she taught the well-known scientist and polymath Johann Jakob Hemmer as tutor to them by the Dirmsteiner pastor Johann Stertzner - inhibitor mentor - had taught.

Franz Friedrich of Sturmfeder was clerics in the diocese of Augsburg, where he received on 24 November 1793, the ordination.

In the fall of 1812 was created after the death of Bishop Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony for the fallen at Bayern parts of the diocese of Augsburg Generalvikariat under his leadership. After the reorganization of ecclesiastical parish in 1818 Franz Karl Joseph was elected zu Hohenlohe- Waldenburg - Schillings Prince Bishop of Augsburg, but died 1819. Sturmfeder took over the office of Vicar-General again to the inauguration of Bishop Joseph Maria Freiherr von Fraunberg. He died on February 26, 1828 in Augsburg.

Franz Friedrich of Sturmfeder baptized as Domdekan and Augsburger General, there on August 31, 1813, the Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria, daughter of King Louis I (Bavaria) and later Grand Duchess of Hesse -Darmstadt. According to a coat of arms engraving by Franz Xaver Jungwirth held Sturmfeder the dignity of a commander and spiritual dean of the Bavarian Order of Knights of St. George.

His niece Louise of Sturmfeder (1789 - 1866), was the well-known teacher of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and his brother Emperor Maximilian of Mexico.