• Ferdinand Beatus Karl Lorber (born 26.02.1794 in Freising)
  

City Council, 21 years mayor of Landshut

Carl Sigmund Lorber was born the son of Johann Georg Lorber and his wife Helena Barbara. Schneider was born in Freising. The father Johann Georg Lorber had worked his way up from a Waischenfeld shoemaker's son to the high princely chamber council at Freising monastery, which enabled him to finance his son's studies.

After completing high school in 1810 at the (now) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich [1], Karl Sigmund Lorber came to Landshut as a student [2]. There he was hired in 1818 as the first legal magistrate. His apartment was at number 81, opposite the town hall. In 1823 he married the host daughter Theresia Schardt in the Martinskirche. In the same year, during construction work on the Höglberg, graves from the Bronze Age were discovered. The official interested in history saved the find from destruction and had it archaeologically secured [3]. Later he made sure that the grave goods were exhibited in a hall of the town hall, thus creating a forerunner of today's city museum [4]. This assignment may have contributed to the fact that the 31-year-old Lorber was elected the successor to the late mayor Josef Haarbeintner the following year.

During Lorber's term in 1826, the city had to cope with the move to Munich from Ingolstadt to Landshut in 1800, where the Ludwig Maximilian University still exists today. As a countermeasure to the impending loss of meaning, Landshut underwent a conversion to become a military and official location. The Kgl. Bayer. 2nd Chevaulegers Regiment and the Kgl. Bayer. The 4th Jäger Battalion and the Appeals Court were moved from Munich to Landshut. In addition, a lyceum (comparable to a university at the time) was set up [5]. However, the latter was also relocated to Freising after a few years in 1834, where it developed into the Philosophical and Theological University of Freising. Mayor Lorber campaigned for the return of the Franciscans (OFM) expelled from the city in the course of secularization in Bavaria, which led to the order's entry into the former Capuchin convent Maria Loreto in 1835 [6]. In 1839, Landshut finally became the seat of the government of the district of Lower Bavaria, which had previously been administered from Munich as the Lower Danube district.

On the way to a New Year's Reception in 1845, Mayor Lorber suffered a fatal stroke in the rooms of the government building at the age of 53. Like the celebration of his 25th anniversary in the service of the city two years earlier, his funeral was also a testimony to his great popularity and respect, when over 3000 people lined the funeral procession and numerous institutions in the city offered their last greeting [7] . Already in the weeks after, allegations were made that the mayor had used his good reputation to take over 60,000 guilders from investors, which he "used for himself and the city administration with curative approval to compensate several families who lost their entire property without recognition of one Duty to pay compensation 26 400 guilders as voluntary support ”[8]. It never seems to have been publicized how the staid and popular mayor was able to get all this money through without anyone noticing [9].