Adolph von Harbou

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Adolph von Harbou

Andreas Paul Adolph von Harbou (born February 3, 1809 in Copenhagen , † June 24, 1877 in Gera ) was a German politician .

family

Harbou was a son of the Chamberlain and Rendsburg customs administrator Friedrich Hans Walter Harbou (1765-1832) and his wife Anne Marie Callumore nee Prætorius (1777-1844). The Danish Major General Johannes Harbou was his brother. On June 20, 1836 he married Joachime Sophie Anna Mathilde Hensen (born April 7, 1815 in Schleswig, † April 6, 1887 in Gera). The marriage resulted in 13 children.

He lived in Copenhagen until he was 16 and then moved with the family to Rendsburg, where he graduated from high school. He studied law at the universities of Kiel, Berlin, Göttingen and Kiel from 1828 to 1832. He then became an assessor at the Gottorf Higher Court . With the administrative reform of 1834, the separation of jurisdiction from administration was introduced in the Duchy of Schleswig . Harbou decided on the administration side and switched to office manager in the Schleswig-Holstein government at Schloss Gottorf, where he was appointed to the government in 1846. In 1847 he received the Dannebrogorden (knight).

During the Schleswig-Holstein uprising , the Provisional Government was formed on March 24, 1848 . This appointed Harbou and Paul Henning von Rumohr as agents of the provisional government for Schleswig . From August 1848 to 1851 he worked as a department head in the Kiel Ministry of the Interior and later the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He remained in office under the Joint Government and Lieutenancy . From 1848 to 1849 he was President of Flensburg , where he was mayor. In addition, he was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state assembly . He was elected for the constituency of Schleswig 19 (Husum).

After the end of the uprising and the restoration of Danish rule Harbou was one of those politicians, those in the patent for the Duchy of Schleswig, concerning the amnesty explicitly the amnesty was denied (and the Order of the Dannebrog disallowed). He therefore had to leave his home and was Minister of State in the government of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen from May 12, 1854 to September 1861 , under Duke Bernhard II of Saxony-Meiningen . From 1866 until his death he was Minister of State (head of government) of Reuss younger line . A street laid out in 1892 in the old town of Gera (part of Florian-Geyer-Straße since 1950) was named Harboustraße in his honor.

literature

Web links

Commons : Adolph Harbou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Mues: The street names of the city of Gera from A to Z. Their history and stories. Gera: Dr. Frank 2006, p. 105.
personal data
SURNAME Harbou, Adolph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harbou, Andreas Paul Adolph von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1877
Place of death Gera