August Konrad Hofmann

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Johann August Konrad Hofmann , from 1827 Freiherr von Hofmann (born April 28, 1776 in Nidda , † August 9, 1841 in Darmstadt ) was a Hessian administrative officer and politician .

family

August Konrad Hofmann came from middle-class parents. His father Conrad Hofmann (1743–1799) was a judicial officer in Nidda and the son of the Groß-Gerau pastor Konrad Hofmann. The mother, Susanne nee Schneider (1753-1826) was the daughter of the Hessian game master in Kranichstein Johann Ludwig Schneider.

August Konrad Hofmann was born on August 25, 1827 ennobled and received Hessian Grand Ducal nobility as Baron in.

On July 15, 1799, he married Sophie Henriette, née Metzler (born August 13, 1772, † June 15, 1825 in Darmstadt), the daughter of the princely Hessian major Johann Gottlieb Metzler and his wife Johanna Katharina née Moter. His second marriage was on June 9, 1816 in Rimbach, Johannette Charlotte Friederike Jakobine, born Pagenstecher (born December 15, 1779 in Reichenbach, † January 3, 1854 in Darmstadt), the daughter of the pastor in Reichenbach, Heinrich Christian Pagenstecher and his wife Charlotte Polyxena Eleonore née Moter.

His daughter Charlotte Franziska Auguste Marianne (1802-1834) married on October 16, 1820 Jugenheim later President of the Grand Duchy of Hesse upper appellate and Supreme Court Dr. jur. Friedrich Johann August Hahn (1789–1867). His son Ernst Christian Gottlieb Freiherr von Hofmann (1803–1868) was chief forest officer. His daughter Marie married the Hessen-Homburg Medical Councilor Eduard Trapp (1804-1854). His daughter Charlotte Johannette Auguste (born April 19, 1817 in Darmstadt) married Eduard von Grolman (1812–1890) on December 4, 1838, the future Hessian Lieutenant General and Minister of War. His daughter Sophie Helene (born January 23, 1820 in Darmstadt, † December 4, 1870) married the landowner and stable master Albert Wilhelm von Grolman (born April 22, 1815 in Gießen, † October 10, 1870 in Darmstadt) on June 9, 1841 in Darmstadt).

Civil servant career

Hofmann studied law and camera science in Erlangen and Gießen and joined the secretariat of the grand ducal Hessian government in 1797 as a government lawyer. In 1803 he became court chamber councilor and chamber lawyer in the rent chamber of the principality of Starkenburg . 1813 head of the government commission for the takeover of Wimpfen and in 1816 the general commission for the taking over and administration of Rheinhessen and a higher appellate judge .

minister

In 1819 he became a secret trainee and in 1820 a secret councilor in the Department of Finance . After Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von Grolman's death (1829) he became President of the Ministry of Finance with the character of a Real Secret Council, President of the State Council and in December 1837 Minister of Finance.

In 1820 he led the negotiations on the legal relationships of the class lords . In 1824 he brought about the conclusion of the customs treaty with Baden and in 1828 the agreement with Prussia as head of the negotiating commission.

He was very active in setting up the tax system and the financial system in general, in lowering the rate of interest on the national debt and in regulating the entire national debt system.

He found a lot of opposition in the state parliament from 1838 to 1839, where he vigorously denied the right of the estates to examine unapproved expenses and, under certain circumstances, to delete them.

He was a co-founder of the Darmstadt Music Association.

His contributions to the closer knowledge of the legislation and administration of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (Gießen 1832) were published in the Freimuethiges Mission Statement to Se. Excellency Mr. President Baron AC von Hofmann (Offenbach: Brede, 1832) from Johann Christian Hundeshagen vigorously replied.

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SURNAME Hofmann, August Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofmann, Johann August Konrad Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessian statesman
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Nidda
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1841
Place of death Darmstadt