August von Manteuffel

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Baron Georg August Ernst von Manteuffel (born October 26, 1765 in Althörnitz ; † January 8, 1842 in Dresden ) was the Royal Saxon Real Privy Councilor , Conference Minister and Envoy to the Bundestag .

Life

origin

August was a member of the baronial Saxon - Lower Lusatian line of the von Manteuffel family . His parents were Major Christoph Friedrich von Mihlendorff Freiherr von Manteuffel (1727–1803) and Christiane Margarethe Elisabeth von Hartig from the Althörnitz house (1736–1812).

Career

Baron von Manteuffel was the master of the hereditary mill at Groß Jehser . In 1791 he entered the state service of the Electorate of Saxony and in 1793 became state syndic of Niederlausitz . He stayed in this position until 1797, when his brother Hans Carl Erdmann von Manteuffel became the immediate successor. In 1797 he was promoted to Appeal and Consistorial Councilor and in 1799 to the Privy Finance Council. In this function he was involved in setting up the crown domain chamber of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1808 based on the Saxon model. In 1809 and 1813 he was a member of the Immediatkommission entrusted with government affairs for the absence of the king . Manteuffel is said to have been in the favor of Camillo Marcolini and in 1812 he succeeded Julius Wilhelm von Oppels as director of the First Department in the royal Saxon Secret Finance College, which comprised mining, metallurgy and saltworks.

As a supporter of Napoleon , after the surrender of Dresden, he was first imprisoned on the Sonnenstein , then in Kosel , but released with the return of the king and a member of the Privy Council . Following his conservative attitude, he disguised necessary reforms, which finally resulted in the New Constitution in 1831 . As early as 1830, he had therefore been sent as an envoy to the German Confederation in Frankfurt , from where he only returned in 1840.

Baron von Manteuffel spent his twilight years in Dresden, where he also died.

family

Baron von Manteuffel married Maria Teresia Ignatia Acier (1771-1830) in 1813, who was married to Kapellmeister Joseph Schuster (1748-1812) for the first time. In 1831 a second marriage followed with his niece Baroness Jeannette von Wagner (1797–1875), (daughter of the Saxon secret finance council Baron Thomas von Wagner (1759–1817) and his sister Karoline von Mihlendorff Freiin von Manteuffel (1772–1848)). Occasionally, a marriage to an NN of Meyer preceding the two marriages mentioned above is also postulated.

Two boys and two girls of his children are known, all of whom died young.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 6, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1865, pp. 125–126 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Manteuffel, barons of. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 86 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Germany, Deaths and Burials 1582-1958. index, FamilySearch ( online ).
  4. ↑ Not in the GHdA (lit.).
personal data
SURNAME Manteuffel, August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manteuffel, Georg August Ernst von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Saxon Real Secret Council, Conference Minister and Envoy to the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH on Althörnitz
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1842
Place of death Dresden