August Werner von Meding

August von Meding ( April 7, 1792 , † August 16, 1871 ) was a Prussian civil servant . Most recently he was President of the Province of Brandenburg .

Life

He came from the noble family Meding . He married Countess Auguste Sophie von Itzenplitz in 1822 (born September 22, 1797).

Meding was district administrator in Salzwedel from 1821 to 1828 and was elected deputy chairman of the Altmark municipal council. He was then General Commissioner in Stendal and later President of the General Commission in Berlin. Between 1835 and 1838 he was President of the District in Merseburg . He then became a member of the Prussian State Council and Ministerialdirigent in the Ministry of the Interior. Between 1842 and 1848 he was President of the Province of Brandenburg. As senior president, he also presided over office in the Royal Consistory of Brandenburg in Berlin (until Carl Otto Graf von Voss was appointed as consistorial president in November 1847). For fear of an impending revolutionary development, Meding asked the governments in Potsdam and Frankfurt an der Oder , which were subordinate to him , to no longer approve popular assemblies. Meding, who was seen by the public as one of the most reactionary officials, as a member of the unified state parliament, at least outwardly committed himself to the constitutional system. On April 6, 1848, the city council of Frankfurt (Oder) decided to ask the interior minister to dismiss von Mening "because of his entire official life and in relation to his memorable speech of April 2". During the March Revolution , because of his attempt to influence officials politically, calls for resignation were raised against him in the Frankfurt National Assembly .

From 1847, after being appointed to the Real Secret Council, he was entitled to use the excellence title. Meding belonged to the first chamber of the Prussian state parliament between 1850 and 1854 and then to the manor house . In 1857 the Prussian State Ministry spoke out against his appointment to the financial audit committee.

literature

• Kurt Adamy (ed.): Brandenburg history. Berlin, 1995 ISBN 978-3-05-002508-7 pp. 470, 481
• Bärbel Holtz (edit.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 4 / II. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-487-11825-4 , p. 611. ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Acta Borussica . New series. )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses, Volume 12, p.256
2. ^ Official Journal of the Magdeburg Government No. 7 of February 16, 1828, p. 29
3. ↑ Frankfurt a. O. In: Austrian German newspaper. Supplement to the Pressburger Zeitung . No. 6 . Vienna April 17, 1848, p. 23 ( onb.ac.at ).