August Friedrich von Köstlin
August Friedrich Köstlin , from 1846 by Köstlin (born July 4, 1792 in Nürtingen , † August 12, 1873 in Stuttgart ), was a German lawyer , Württemberg State Councilor and Consistorial President .
Live and act
August von Köstlin, the youngest son of the Nürtingen deacon , later dean and (honorary) prelate Nathanael Köstlin and Sibylle Friederike Cless (1751–1824), came to the Blaubeuren Evangelical Theological Seminary in 1805 as a “Hospes” (guest student) and studied since 1808 law at the University of Tübingen . Through his brother Heinrich Köstlin he joined the romantic circle of friends around Justinus Kerner , Karl Mayer and Ludwig Uhland and joined the younger Swabian school of poets around Gustav Schwab and August Mayer .
After graduating in the spring of 1812, he entered the Württemberg civil service, in 1817 became secretary to the privy council in Stuttgart, in 1822 a councilor in the upper government, and in 1830 an upper government councilor. His study The administrative justice according to French principles. A contribution to the doctrine of the limits of justice and administration appeared anonymously in 1823. From 1829 to 1864 Köstlin was a member of the central management of the Württemberg charity, and he supported the reform efforts of his brother Heinrich as a board member of the royal supervisory commission for the psychiatric institutions in Winnental and Zwiefalten .
With the establishment of the Württemberg railway system under state control, a separate commission was formed in the Ministry of the Interior and Köstlin was appointed its director. He played a key role in the formulation of the Railway Act of April 18, 1843, which laid down the controversial route from Stuttgart via the Filstal and the Geislinger Steige to Ulm . In 1844 Köstlin was appointed director of government, in 1847 a state councilor and a member of the secret council .
In a memorandum for the Greater German -minded King Wilhelm I of Württemberg from the spring of 1849, August Köstlin shared the opinion of the journalist Paul Pfizer and voted for the unification of Germany under Prussian leadership and with the exclusion of Austria. In October of the same year he pointed out the danger of isolation of Württemberg from the Dreikönigsbündnis , an amalgamation of the kingdoms of Prussia, Saxony and Hanover. Shortly thereafter, Köstlin opposed what he believed to be too harsh action by the Privy Council against state officials who had been politically active in the revolution of 1848 (in 1854 he accepted the writer Wilhelm Zimmermann into the Württemberg church service). This courageous standing up for his convictions cost him his position on the privy council, which meant a considerable loss of income.
Nevertheless, King Wilhelm I appointed Köstlin as consistorial president in 1852, since he only trusted him to “have a calming and reconciling effect on the denominational quarrels and the dispute between the parties ”. Under his leadership, the Württemberg regional church received a synodal order, but Köstlin ensured that the Ministry of Culture retained the sovereign church authority in full and was not limited to a control function, as desired by liberal church reformers. In the tiresome Concordat question asked by his King in 1861 for an expert opinion, Köstlin spoke out against a state treaty with the Vatican and in favor of a regulation of the relationship between church and state within the framework of the Württemberg state legislation to be agreed with the Holy See. This law was passed in 1862.
After the departure of the Minister of Culture Gustav von Rümelin , Köstlin was proposed to succeed him in 1861: he renounced for reasons of age and health. Five years later he was retired, but Köstlin was still an honorary member of the consistory and chaired various commissions. At the first Evangelical Regional Synod of 1869 he participated as an elected member of parliament for Tuttlingen and senior. The November treaties of 1870, which sealed the accession of the southern German states to the North German Confederation , will have been a belated satisfaction for him.
August von Köstlin devoted himself to the fine arts throughout his life : after the death of Johann Heinrich Dannecker (1758–1841), he worked from 1842 to 1867 as a part-time director of the state art school (later the Stuttgart Art Academy ) and the state art collections, today's Stuttgart State Gallery . In this capacity, business trips took him to the art exhibitions in Munich in 1842 and 1858, and to the world exhibition in Paris in 1855 . In maintaining contact with the most important artists in Württemberg of his time, Köstlin received significant help from his wife Wilhelmine, née. Mayer, a sister of the poet lawyer Karl Mayer and the landscape painter Louis Mayer . She organized regular meetings at home, was involved in the Stuttgart Museum Society, but was also vehemently committed to social welfare.
Honored - 1846 Commander of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , with which the personal nobility was connected, 1860/61 Grand Cross of the Order of Frederick with a star - August von Köstlin died after a serious illness on August 12, 1873. His grave is still preserved in the Hoppenlaufriedhof in Stuttgart .
His services were honored with a necrology in the Swabian Merkur (Kronik), No. 243 of October 12, 1873, p. 2329 f.
family
August von Köstlin had been married to Wilhelmine Mayer (1798–1867) von Heilbronn since 1822, with whom he had six children, including the singer and singing teacher Wilhelmine ("Mimi") Köstlin (1824–1904), the engineer August Köstlin (1825– 1894), editor of the Allgemeine Bauzeitung in Vienna, married to Therese Schurz (1830–1872), a niece of the poet Nikolaus Lenau , as well as the lawyer and cell prison director Karl von Köstlin (1827–1909) in Heilbronn, married to Anna Scholl (1836– 1922)
literature
- Julius Köstlin : Köstlin, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 756 f.
- Maria Köstlin (ed.): The book of the Köstlin family , Stuttgart 1931, pp. 40–44, 141–143
- Otto Köstlin: August Köstlin (1792–1873) , in: Julius Hartmann (ed.): Mayer-Hartmannsche memories , Weinsberg 1885, pp. 14–23
- Tilman Krause: A beautiful society is dedicated to art. Wilhelmine Köstlin met those who had a reputation for being in Stuttgart in the 19th century - for a glass of beer for the men, sugar water for the women . In: Die Welt , Literarisches Welt, April 10, 2004, pp. 6-7
- Tilman Krause: Wilhelmine Köstlin (1798–1867) - the diary of a lady of the Stuttgart society around 1850, reconstructed from the diaries of her great-great-great-grandson , in: Archive for Family History Research 8 (2004), Volume 3, p. 178-196
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Köstlin, August Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Köstlin, August Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer, lawyer in church service |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nürtingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1873 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |