August Heinrich von Trott on Solz

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August Heinrich Polykarp Freiherr von Trott auf Solz zu Imshausen (born March 22, 1783 in Kassel , † September 22, 1840 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a senior administrative officer of the Kingdom of Westphalia and later Württemberg .

Origin and education

August von Trott auf Solz zu Imshausen was born as the son of the Hessian major Rudolf Ludwig von Trott zu Solz and Eleonore Christiane. Born von Leyser. Trott lost his mother at the age of six. He received his first education from a private tutor. After graduating from Gotha High School, to which he had been a member since 1799, he went to the University of Jena in 1802 , where he was more drawn to philosophical ( Schelling ) and literary studies ( Goethe ) than to jurisprudence . His interest in this only arose in Göttingen , although, according to his own inclination, he would have preferred to do Austrian military service. In order to transfer to the Hessian administration, he took an exam in Kassel, but first went to the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar . His plan to stay at the Reich Chamber of Commerce was destroyed by the dissolution of the Reich in autumn 1806, and his intention to enter Hessian service after all was thwarted by the entry of the French Corps on November 1, 1806 in Kassel. As a result, he initially retired to his father's estate in Imshausen .

Service in the Kingdom of Westphalia

After the Peace of Tilsit , he offered his services to the government of the new Kingdom of Westphalia , which sent him to Eschwege as sub-prefect in January 1808 . Here he developed a rich activity, since all circumstances had to be rearranged. On January 27, 1809 he married Elisabeth Sophie, daughter of the Anglo-Hanoverian general von Drechsel. The government rewarded his appearance against the Dörnberg uprising by being promoted to Prefect of the Harz Department on June 2, 1809. In September of the same year he was transferred to Marburg to calm the town and country after the Sternberg uprising . He was at the head of the Werra department for four years . After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , he retired to Koblenz on the orders of the Westphalian King Jérôme and followed him to Paris , where he only asked for his release after the Peace of Paris . - August von Trott zu Solz is registered as a member of the registers of the Kassel Freemason Lodge Royal Hieronymus Napoleon in 1809 .

Return and imprisonment in Germany

At the end of June 1814 he returned to Germany (Heidelberg and Mannheim). He was one of the few officials who served the Kingdom of Westphalia out of conviction and who remained true to their convictions, even after the allies had already reoccupied the country; This loyalty and attachment to foreign rule earned him the bitterest hatred of his compatriots, and his attempts to justify himself to the Elector Wilhelm I of Hesse - he made himself available to the Hessian government on the return of Napoleon from Elba and asked in 1816 Electors for an audience - were unsuccessful. The elector had him arrested on his Imshausen estate in September 1816 and charged with "the crime committed against his fatherland due to his passionate attachment to the usurpatory governorate and his administration". The first point had become obsolete due to the Peace of Vienna and the Hessian amnesty decree of February 7, 1815, and since the public request to file complaints about the former prefect was unsuccessful, the investigative commission could only prosecute the use of public funds for maintaining his own ends: Trott had used two times larger sums of money that the communities in his department received as billing money for himself, sometimes lending them to a friend and taking them with him on the run. Since both sums had meanwhile been repaid with all interests, the commission proposed on March 21, 1817 six months of imprisonment and condemnation in the costs as sufficient atonement. Trott, who had been released from his custody in Marburg on November 20, 1816 after the investigation was over, denied the legality of the proceedings, so the elector ordered that the opinion of a foreign university be obtained.

Legation councilor and envoy to the Bundestag

In the meantime Trott had turned to Württemberg and found a job as a secret legation councilor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the request of the King of Württemberg, the Elector of Hesse dropped the charges against Trott in 1818. In Stuttgart he was initially entrusted with regulating the constitutional relationships of the class lords and the formerly imperial knighthood. From 1819 to 1820 he then took part in the Vienna Ministerial Conferences, which adopted the final act. In 1821 he was appointed to the State Council and on May 1, 1824 to the German Bundestag , whose negotiations he attended until his death.

death

Ailing for a long time, he developed a spinal cord disease , which after 11 months of unsuccessful cold water treatment in Ilmenau left him with no hope of improvement. He died in Frankfurt on September 22, 1840 as a result of a " nervous blow ".

progeny

August Heinrich Polykarp Freiherr von Trott zu Solz was the grandfather of August von Trott zu Solz and Heinrich von Trott zu Solz as well as the great-grandfather of Adam von Trott zu Solz .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benigna von Krusenstjern : That it makes sense to have lived and died: Adam von Trott zu Solz 1909-1944: biography. Wallstein-Verlag , Göttingen ISBN 978-3835305069
predecessor Office successor
Karl August von Wangenheim (until 1823) Württemberg envoy to the German Confederation
1824–1836 		Gottfried Jonathan von Harttmann
personal data
SURNAME Trott on Solz, August Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trott on Solz zu Imshausen, August Heinrich Polykarp Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1840
Place of death Frankfurt am Main