August von Hartmann (State Councilor)

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August von Hartmann and his wife Mariette Hartmann geb. Dannenberger, before 1832.

Johann Georg August Hartmann , from 1806 by Hartmann , (born October 5, 1764 in Stuttgart ; † April 4, 1849 there ) was a Württemberg civil servant and university professor.

family

August Hartmann was the eldest son of the ducal-Württemberg court and finance councilor Johann Georg Hartmann (1731–1811) and Juliane Friederike (née Spittler) (1736–1799), the daughter of the mayor of Cannstatt . He had six siblings, one sister and five brothers, including Ludwig von Hartmann , industrial pioneer and founder of the Hartmann group of companies , Friedrich von Hartmann , doctor and natural scientist (paleontologist), and Ferdinand Hartmann , director of the Dresden Art Academy. Hartmann married (Anna) Mariette Dannenberger (1766–1832), who was born in Venice in Stuttgart in 1792, daughter of the court counselor and professor of commercial science (Johann) Heinrich Dannenberger (1728–1783).

life and work

After attending grammar school and from 1780 the Hohen Karlsschule in Stuttgart, August Hartmann learned to write in Plochingen . He later studied camera science in Tübingen (1784) and Heidelberg (1786) . After completing his studies, he applied to Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg for a professorship at the Karlsschule . He received it in 1788, albeit without a salary. After a long journey through Germany, Holland and Switzerland, he began teaching in 1790. He taught forestry and hunting. As the successor immediately closed the Karlsschule after the Duke's death on October 24, 1793, Hartmann lost his office.

But by this time his abilities had already been recognized, and so he did not remain idle for long. In 1794 he was appointed Rentkammerrat, and in 1796 a real councilor at the Ducal Church Council. In 1806, after the current state constitution was dissolved, he became a real councilor at the Oberlandesöconomie-Collegium and the Forestry Directorate under the first Württemberg King Friedrich. In 1811 he became head of the foundation section, in 1812 a State Councilor and in 1816 a member of the General Finance College. After King Wilhelm took office , August von Hartmann was even appointed to the real Secret Council and a year later to the President of the Chamber of Accounts. In December 1818 he was dismissed because he did not agree to the financial measures of the new finance minister Karl August von Malchus .

Grave in the Hoppenlauffriedhof.

The king's confidence in him remained undiminished. After the death of Queen Katharina on January 9, 1819 , he took over the presidium of the central office of the agricultural association and, with great success, the supreme supervision of all charitable and educational institutions founded by the deceased queen, namely the management of the Katharinenstift. In 1827 he had to resign from the management of the Katharinenstift, in 1839 that of the central office of the agricultural association and in 1847 that of the charity association due to a decrease in his physical strength.

August von Hartmann died on April 4, 1849 at the age of 85. August von Hartmann, his wife Mariette and their unmarried daughter Julie are buried together with their daughter Emilie Reinbeck and her husband Georg Reinbeck in a family grave in the Hoppenlaufriedhof in Stuttgart.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual , 1839, p. 40

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personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartmann, Johann Georg August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1849
Place of death Stuttgart