Georg Otto von Ehrenstein

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Georg Otto von Ehrenstein (born January 19, 1835 in Dresden ; † November 3, 1907 there ) was a Saxon politician .

Life

The son of the royal Saxon State and Finance Minister Karl Wolf von Ehrenstein (1805-1865) attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden and then studied at the University of Leipzig . He began his civil service career in 1860 as an assessor at the Bautzen district directorate . This was followed by positions at the Chemnitz Court Office and the Zwickau District Directorate . After the state examination for higher administrative service, he became a government assessor at the Dresden district directorate in 1866 . In the same year, he was appointed to act as head of the Pirna Office and two years later that of the Annaberg Office. From 1868 to 1875 Ehrenstein was the governor of the Rochlitz governorate and from 1875 to 1882 governor of the Pirna governorate . Afterwards, Ehrenstein was a government advisor in the Royal Saxon Ministry of the Interior and in this capacity also deputy authorized representative to the Federal Council . From 1 October 1887 to 31 March 1906 he was District Chief of Leipzig .

Ehrenstein was one of the founders of the Conservative State Association in Saxony in 1875 . As a member of the Conservative State Association, he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament from 1873 to 1879 . Ehrenstein died in Dresden in 1907 and was buried in the St. Pauli cemetery there.

family

Ehrenstein married Anna Philippine Eleonore Freiin von Palm (1859–1895) in 1878. After her death, he took Mathilde Mary Newman (born January 16, 1846 in Altona, † May 30, 1911 in Hamburg), the daughter of the merchant Henry Newman, as his wife. His eldest daughter Anna von Ehrenstein headed the deaconess mother house at the Lazarus Hospital in Berlin as superior from 1918 to 1951 . The son of his second daughter Elfriede (married to the pastor Ludwig Jancke) is the physicist Hans Jancke . Their grandson is the mathematician and computer scientist Gunther Schmidt . Today's namesake from Ehrenstein are descended from his son Wolf; they are mainly found in South Tyrol.

Honors

On the occasion of his resignation from the office of district chief and in recognition of his work, he was made honorary citizen of the city of Leipzig on February 14, 1906 . In the same year Ehrensteinstrasse in Leipzig (districts Zentrum-Nord and Gohlis) was named after him.

literature

  • Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , pp. 365-366
  • Calendar for the Saxon state officials to the year 1904 . Dresden 1904, p. 6 (short biography)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Meiche: Historical-topographical description of the Pirna administration. (PDF; 414 kB) Dresden 1927, p. 12.
  2. ^ Landesdirektion Leipzig: The leaders of the Leipzig central authority. ( Memento from March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b leipzig.de: Overview of the honorary citizens of the city of Leipzig.
  4. ^ Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon Parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 365.
  5. ↑ death survey . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 4, 1908, p. 301.
  6. ↑ http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/cgi-bin/hidaweb/getdoc.pl?DOK_TPL=lda_doc.tpl&KEY=obj%2009030286
  7. ↑ Jancke, Hans ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Gina Klank; Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 60.
personal data
SURNAME Ehrenstein, Georg Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrenstein, Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Conservative Regional Association), Leipzig district chief (1887–1906)
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1907
Place of death Dresden