August Heinrich Kuhlmeyer

August Heinrich Kuhlmeyer (born May 3, 1781 in Havelberg , † September 26, 1865 in Görlitz ) was a Prussian and Westphalian civil servant.

Life

The Kuhlmeyers were a bourgeois family from Werder (Havel) , where one of Kuhlmeyer's ancestors was mayor. The family later moved to Brandenburg an der Havel . His father Christian Gottlieb Ludwig Kuhlmeyer was a lawyer at the cathedral monastery in Havelberg and married to Charlotte Catharina Hauptmann. The marriage resulted in two children, including a brother Ludwig Wilhelm, who was later employed by the Bromberg appellate court .

Kuhlmeyer passed the Abitur examination at the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium . He studied law and camera science at the Friedrichs University in Halle . He began his career in 1801 as a trainee lawyer at the War and Domain Chamber of the Kurmark . In 1802 he was appointed to the special organization commission for the Eichsfeld and employed as an assessor in the newly founded Erfurt-Eichsfeldischen War and Domain Chamber. There he worked as an assessor under the chamber director Samuel Gottfried Borsche . After the chamber was dissolved, he entered the service of the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 . He became sub-prefect of the Osterode district in the Harz department . He stayed at this post until August 1813. After the resignation of Prefect Burchhard von Bülow, he cursoryly took over the official duties as Chief Prefect in the Heiligenstadt district in September and October . After the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia, he became government director in Minden in 1816 . From 1827 he was a secret finance councilor and general director of taxes in Berlin. In 1842 he became chief president of the Prussian Chamber of Accounts . In this function he contributed to the standardization of taxes in the areas of the German Customs Union .

After his retirement in 1850, Kuhlmeyer married his longtime partner Marianne Petri on July 18, 1851. He had met her during his time in Heiligenstadt, where he owned a house. The couple had a daughter Marie Kuhlmeyer (* 1852). Kuhlmeyer died at the age of 84 in Berlin (or Görlitz).

literature

• Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 541 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Kuhlmeyer, in: Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families , ed. Koerner Bernhard, Vol. 8 (1901), pp. 145-148.