August Theodor Braun

August Theodor Braun (born July 17 or 15, 1802 in Hanover ; † February 7, 1887 ) was a civil servant and politician who worked as a liberal minister in the Kingdom of Hanover and then as Landdrost in Stade.

Life

As the son of a colonel, he was destined for his father's profession early on and joined the Hanoverian artillery as a cadet in 1814 . In the following year he was a student at the Lyceum in Hanover, where he passed the school leaving examination in 1821.

In 1824 he became an auditor at the Zeven office and in 1827 an assessor at the Agathenburg office . From 1831 he was in the service of the cabinet ministry, in 1835 he became secretary and in 1847 cabinet counselor together with Alexander von Münchhausen . In 1839 he was appointed to the Hanover cabinet for the first time. In March 1848 he became minister of culture (see March government ), where he was often in contact with Hermann Lotze until 1859 . 1849–1850 he was a curator at the University of Göttingen . He showed such a lack of understanding of King George V's policy of reaction that he was soon excluded from court society along with some other liberal ministers. In 1850 he was dismissed with the entire Stüve-Bennigsen cabinet.

Around 1862 he was mayor and next to Hermann Schläger one of the driving forces in the citizen-director-college. In 1863 he became a member of the Second Hanover Chamber and in 1869 a member of the Hanover State Synod . However, since he was the least likely to appear at the first regional synod, Berlin wanted his departure. From March 13, 1863 to April 3, 1872 he was Landdrost (District President) in Stade . Braunstraße in Hanover, laid out in 1889, is named after him.

literature

Klaus Mlynek : Article Braun, August Theodor . In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 70.
J. Bohmbach, in: Stader Stadtlexikon , 1994, p. 27.
Th. Braun: Curriculum vitae of Landdrosten August Theodor Braun in Stade. In: Stader Archiv 21, 1931, pp. 163–166.

Individual evidence

^ Norbert Matern: Political elections in Hildesheim 1848 to 1867 ; 1959, p. 173.
↑ Eduard Vehse: History of the courts of the House of Braunschweig in Germany and England , Hamburg 1853, part 3, p. 330.
^ Hermann Lotze: Letters and Documents , compiled, introduced and commented on by Reinhardt Pester, ed. by Ernst Wolfgang Orth . Würzburg 2003. (It contains some letters exchanged between Braun and Lotze.)
↑ Cornelia Roolfs: The hannoversche Hof from 1814 to 1866. Hofstaat und Hofgesellschaft , Hannover 2005, p. 323.
^ Thomas Jan Kück: Ludwig Adolf Petri. Church politician and theologian , Göttingen 1997, p. 265 .
↑ Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony , Volume 8-11, 1970, p. 143.
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. p_hannover.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

personal data
SURNAME	Braun, August Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil servant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 15, 1802 or July 17, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	February 7, 1887

[1] Norbert Matern: Political elections in Hildesheim 1848 to 1867 ; 1959, p. 173.

[2] Eduard Vehse: History of the courts of the House of Braunschweig in Germany and England , Hamburg 1853, part 3, p. 330.

[3] Hermann Lotze: Letters and Documents , compiled, introduced and commented on by Reinhardt Pester, ed. by Ernst Wolfgang Orth . Würzburg 2003. (It contains some letters exchanged between Braun and Lotze.)

[4] Cornelia Roolfs: The hannoversche Hof from 1814 to 1866. Hofstaat und Hofgesellschaft , Hannover 2005, p. 323.

[5] Thomas Jan Kück: Ludwig Adolf Petri. Church politician and theologian , Göttingen 1997, p. 265 .

[6] Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony , Volume 8-11, 1970, p. 143.

[7] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. p_hannover.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).