Carl von Benzel-Sternau

Carl Ernst Graf von Benzel-Sternau (born June 10, 1774 ; † September 2, 1832 in Rippoldsau ; Catholic) was in the Electoral Palatinate service until 1803 and then in the Baden state service and was retired in 1814.

family

Benzel-Sternau was the son of Anselm Franz von Bentzel-Sternau (born August 28, 1738 † 7 March 1786), the Electoral Mainz was a civil servant.

Life

Benzel-Sternau became a real court judge in Mannheim in 1797 and a member with the seat and vote of the noble bank of the court in 1799. After the electoral Palatinate was dissolved in 1803, he became chamberlain and councilor in the court council in Karlsruhe . After he became a member of the Karlsruhe Police Department in 1805, he was appointed director on October 27, 1807. From January 1810 he became senior bailiff and police director at the Karlsruhe city office . In September 1813 he was appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary minister at the royal Westphalian court in Kassel and at the same time received the title of Privy Councilor . In 1814 he was promoted to the Privy Council, 2nd class, and retired.

Awards

• 1825 Commander's Cross of the Zähringer Lion Order

literature

• Bernd Breitkopf: The old districts and their heads of office. The emergence of the districts and offices in what is today the district of Karlsruhe. Biographies of the senior officials and district administrators from 1803 to 1997 . Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-48-7 , p. 101.