Alexander von Uhden

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Alexander Uhden (1860)
Alexander von Uhden
(after 1871, with the Order of the Sister of the Eagle)
Coat of arms of
the von Uhden family
Wedding advertisement from 1827 in the form of a theater program

Karl Albrecht Alexander Uhden , from 1871 von Uhden (born October 9, 1798 in Berlin ; † January 31, 1878 ibid) was a Prussian politician, minister of justice and last president of the Prussian Higher Tribunal .

family

He came from the old merchant family Uhden , originally from Gardelegen in the Altmark, where Ciriacus and Henning Uden appear in 1393 , the brothers Niclas and Ciriacus in 1419 , Mayor Udo Udonis in 1493 and Nikolaus Uhden in 1617 , who sold the village of Polvitz. It is documented in Egeln near Magdeburg in 1552. The secured family line begins with Christian Röttger Heinrich Uhde , a merchant in Egeln, and Dorothea Rulmann , who was married there on June 6, 1608 .

Uhden is the third son of the privy councilor , judicial commissioner and notary as well as syndic of the Kurmärkischen landscape Johann Adolf Peter Uhden and the Henriette Wilhelmine Liedtke . His siblings are Leopold Friedrich (1797–1833), Adelheid Henriette († 1846), Ferdinand Erich (* 1795), Adolf Heinrich (1792–1860).

Uhden married Juliane Friderike Auguste Schlüsser on January 20, 1827 in Berlin (born August 25, 1802 in Berlin; † August 20, 1869 there). The wedding announcement and invitation to the celebration, which he sent in the form of an announcement of a theater performance, testify to his wit and his imagination. His son was Heinrich Adolf Alexander von Uhden (* 1882).

Nobility

Uhden was raised to the Prussian nobility on August 28, 1871 on the occasion of his 50th anniversary with the award of the Order of the Black Eagle . Coat of arms: divided, above in silver a growing red eagle , below in red a gold star; on the helmet with a red-silver cover an open flight, quartered on both sides by silver and red .

Life

Uhden attended grammar school in Berlin, and since 1818 studied law at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin . In 1821 he was Auskultator the Berlin city court clerk in 1823, 1826 chamber court assessor , 1827 Judicial Council at the Municipal Court, 1833 Kammergerichtsrat and 1838 at the same time Secret Postrat. In 1839 he was accepted as a member of the lawless society in Berlin . Also in 1839 he was appointed to the Secret Civil Cabinet as a Privy Councilor of Justice , in 1840 awarded the Order of the Red Eagle III with a ribbon and a member of the Prussian State Council , in 1841 a Cabinet Councilor and in 1844 a Secret Cabinet Councilor. From September 25, 1844 to March 20, 1848 he was Royal Prussian Minister of Justice. In 1846 he became a member of the bank's board of trustees. From December 1849 to 1854 he was President of the Court of Appeal in Breslau ( Lower Silesia ). At the same time he was from March 1851 Prussian commissioner for the regulation of the Hessian constitutional affairs. From November 1854 until his death (1878) Uhden was the last chief president of the Prussian Higher Tribunal. In 1855 he finally succeeded Mühler as President of the “Court of Justice for Judicial Officials”.

At the end of his career he was also politically active: in 1851 and 1852 he was a member of the First Chamber, from 1852 to 1854 a conservative member of the Second Chamber ( Prussian House of Representatives ), in December 1852 and January 1853 also its President, and from 1854 until his death in 1878 he was a lifelong member of the Prussian mansion as crown syndicate . He was one of the chosen ones who were invited to attend the celebration of King Wilhelm's coronation in Königsberg on October 18, 1861, and is one of the 102 personalities who are depicted in person on Menzel's famous coronation painting.

Alexander von Uhden died on January 31, 1878 at the age of 79 in Berlin. The Provincial Correspondence wrote on February 6th:

"On Tuesday - (5 February 1878) - attended the two Majesties - (Emperor William I and Empress Augusta -) of the body with the princes of the consecration of the Chief President of the Upper Tribunal of the State Minister for Uhden in which Se. Majesty honored not only one of the most loyal servants, but at the same time one of the last among the civil servants who had already been honored under the emperor's father, the most blessed king Friedrich Wilhelm III. , had taken an excellent position. "

Uhden was buried in the St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

medal

literature

  • Erhard Ross: Carl Alexander von Uhden (1798–1878). Prussian Minister of Justice and last President of the Royal High Tribunal in Berlin. In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History. Volume 37, 1986, p. 176.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the letter noble houses. Volume 7, 1913, p. 816 f.
  • Hermann Hengst: The Knights of the Black Eagle Order: Biographical directory of all knights of the High Order of the Black Eagle from 1701–1900. Berlin 1901.
  • Kullnick: Berliners and Berliners by choice people and personalities in Berlin from 1640–1960. Berlin around 1960.
  • German gender book . Volume 128, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1962.
  • Berner .:  Uhden, Karl Albrecht Alexander von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 765-567.

swell

  1. ↑ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , list of names for all volumes, Volume III, Berlin 1868, p. 349.
  2. ↑ German Gender Book . Volume 128, p. 354.
  3. ^ Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Graphic Collection , Inv. No. HB 25473a capsule 1368a
  4. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian status increases and grace acts , Berlin 1844, p. 151.
  5. ^ Johann Siebmacher : The flourishing nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia . Edelleute, (Illustration Hildebrandt Nürnberg 1878), Volume III, 2nd section, p. 422, plate 466
  6. ^ Letter from the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage of January 11, 1978, reference 3354/77, compare Vossische Zeitung No. 68, March 21, 1848.
  7. ↑ H. Knackfuß: artist monographs 7 A. v. Menzel. Bielefeld / Leipzig 1912, Fig. 57 and explanation board
  8. ↑ No. 6. Provincial Correspondence. Sixteenth year. February 6, 1878.
  9. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 310.
  10. ^ Königsberg, Royal Prussian State Newspaper. No. 213 BC September 11, 1840.

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personal data
SURNAME Uhden, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhden, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Minister of Justice and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1878
Place of death Berlin , Brandenburg