Christian Sethe
Christian Diedrich Heinrich Sethe (born January 28, 1778 in Kleve ; † February 27, 1864 in Aurich ) was a lawyer and a privy councilor as well as the founder of the Sethestift in Aurich.
Life
Christian Sethe came from a Klevian legal family. He was the eighth child of Councilor Caspar Henrich Sethe (1732-1806) and his wife Christine Marie Grolman (1733-1819). His brother Christoph Sethe (1767–1855) was chief president of the Rhenish Auditing and Cassation Court in Berlin.
Sethe completed his studies at the University of Halle , made his course as a calculator and trainee lawyer at the Berlin Court of Appeal and in 1802 became the youngest assessor at the Prussian War and Domain Chamber. In August 1802 Sethe was transferred to Aurich in East Frisia as assistant to the War and Domain Chamber and stayed there all his life. He turned down a promotion to Landdrosten in Lüneburg in 1831.
Sethe married Charlotte Heßlingh (1785–1858) in 1804 (estate in the Lower Saxony State Archives, Rep. 220/23). When the marriage remained childless, they donated their fortune to the establishment of the "Sethe'schen Fräuleinstifts for unmarried fatherless daughters" opened in 1871 ( Sethestift ). In that year he was also promoted to the War and Domain Council. Under the Napoleonic occupation he was prefectural councilor in Aurich. After 1813 he continued his administrative work in the Landdrostei uninterruptedly until he retired as a secret councilor in 1857, at the age of 79 and after 55 years of service. He was probably the classic Prussian civil servant, but tried to mediate between the Prussian authorities and the East Frisian population.
The Sethestift is still known today in East Friesland, the associated monastery mill is a listed building and is a landmark of the city of Aurich.
literature
- Hermann Hüffer: Sethe, Christoph . In General German Biography . Volume 34 (1892), pp. 45-48
- Martin Tielke (Ed. On behalf of the Ostfriesische Landschaft): Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland . Aurich 2001.
- Walter Deeters : The struggle for the state constitution of East Frisia 1815-1846. In: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History. 63, 1991, pp. 87-106.
- Adolf Klein, Justus Bockemühl (ed.): World history experienced on the Rhine. Cologne 1973.
- L. Midtelstorf: Genealogical news about the families involved in the Sethe'schen Fräuleinstift zu Aurich. Aurich 1883.
- Wilhelm Rothert: General Hanoverian biography. Volume 2: In the old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866. Hanover 1914, p. 581.
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Schaer: The city of Aurich and its civil service in the 19th century with special consideration of the Hanoverian period (1815–1866). (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. XXIV, 3). Göttingen 1963, p. 114 f.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sethe, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sethe, Christian Diedrich Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1778 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kleve |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1864 |
| Place of death | Aurich |