Christian Steltzer (lawyer, 1778)

Christian Friedrich Bernhard Steltzer , since 1840 von Steltzer , also Stelzer , (born October 27, 1778 in Mansfeld , † February 12, 1848 in Halberstadt ) was a German lawyer , civil servant and judge .

Life

education

Christian Steltzer was the son of the War and Tax Council of Mansfeld Christian Friedrich Christoph Stelzer . He initially received his school education through private lessons, but then switched to the Quedlinburg high school . By transferring his father to Halle ; there he became war councilor, domain councilor and city president; he moved to the pedagogy in Halle . He then studied law at the University of Halle .

Legal career

At the beginning of 1800, Steltzer joined the state justice service as an auscultator and shortly after he took up his position as a government trainee at the Magdeburg State Judicial College. In February 1803 a commission was sent to Hildesheim and Paderborn in the course of the Reich Deputation Main Meeting under the leadership of State Minister Friedrich Wilhelm von der Schulenburg-Kehnert , to which Steltzer belonged. During his time on the commission he was promoted to assessor . After the commission was dissolved at the end of 1804, he was a detective and inquisitor at the newly established inquisitorium in Hildesheim. With the "foreign rule" in 1808 he was appointed Procureur du Roi ( public prosecutor ) at the newly established Halle District Tribunal, which he remained until after the Wars of Liberation .

At the beginning of 1815 he was appointed Higher Regional Court Councilor in Halberstadt and with the same title from 1817 at the newly established Royal Higher Regional Court in Naumburg an der Saale. In mid-1821, the Prussian king's petition for clemency was accepted, which was necessary due to the work of Steltzer during the French occupation. With the promotion to the Secret High Tribunal Council, he moved to Berlin in mid-1823 . There he was a consultant at the Royal Ministry of Finance and was also responsible for the judicial visitation of the Royal Higher Regional Court in Poznan .

At the end of 1830, he was appointed President of the Higher Regional Court in Hamm , which he did not take and stayed in Berlin, only to become President of the Royal Prussian Higher Regional Court in Halberstadt in March 1831 by cabinet order. He stayed in Halberstadt until his death, although he also held far more important posts, e.g. B. at the Royal Higher Regional Court in Stettin .

From 1834 to 1836 he was a member of the Federal Assembly for the Kingdom of Prussia .

family

From 1805 he was married to Wilhelmine Juliane (Jule) Reichardt (1783-1839) for the first time. Henrich Steffens names the connection between the two in Volume 5 of his notes and reports on a situation where a loaded pistol from Steffens was supposed to be used by the future Mrs. Steltzer to drive a nail into the wall out of ignorance and Christian Steltzer stopped her at the last moment could. His father-in-law Johann Friedrich Reichardt remarks about the wedding that the pastor "... increased his [Stelzers] dignity to that of a French police inspector ...".

At the beginning of 1805 Steltzer accommodated Steffens in Hildesheim, who was fleeing to Hamburg.

On October 15, 1840, Steltzer was raised to the nobility .

From 1841 onwards he was married to Karoline Steltzer, his brother's daughter, and had a total of four children from the two marriages.

Christian Steltzer died unexpectedly of a stroke on February 12, 1848 .

The descendants include B. Edmund von Borck and the Upper President of Saxony Karl Wilhelm von Klewitz .

coat of arms

In gold, on a red wall that occupies the base of the shield , a wagtail with a green shamrock in its beak .

Meaning (selection)

• Right to propose promotions, awards of medals and decorations
• Construction and expansion of courts of law and prisons
• Revisions (e.g. investigation by the royal higher regional court in Paderborn) and administration of justice

Works (selection)

• Co-author: Which family members are to be consulted when establishing a family union over a Fideikommissgut? , Yearbooks for Prussian Legislation, Jurisprudence and Legal Administration, Volume 40, Hitzig, 1832

Awards (selection)

• Order of the red eagle third class with bow
• Member of The Lawless Society Berlin
• 1834 to 1838: together with Count von Hardenberg, appointed member of the German Confederation for Prussia
• 1836: Order of the Red Eagle, second class, with oak leaves
• 1837: Honorary citizen of the city of Halberstadt

Trivia

• In 1832 Steltzer donated over 10 gold coins to support the residents of Magdeburg affected by cholera .
• In the Gleimhaus Halberstadt (inventory no. PA3_14-35) there is a lithograph that shows Steltzer: Portrait
• On August 22, 1842 he accommodated the King of Prussia and the Queen in his apartment.

literature

• Henrich Steffens: What I experienced , fifth, sixth and ninth volume, Josef Max, 1844
• New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 26, Issue 1, Voigt, 1850, pp. 165 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon : in association with several historians . Voigt, 1870 ( google.de [accessed January 22, 2018]).
2. ↑ justice German: right care and rights policy ... Official Journal of the German right care . R. v. Decker's verlag, G. Schenck, 1848 ( google.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
3. ↑ Werner Freitag , Andreas Ranft , Katrin Minner: History of the city of Halle: Halle in the 19th and 20th centuries . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89812-383-9 ( google.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Heinz Härtl: Correspondence III (1805-1806) . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-025072-5 ( google.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
5. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Munich: 1840, [4] . General Zeitung, 1840 ( google.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
6. ^ ^{A b} Genealogical-diplomatic yearbook for the Prussian state and initially for its nobility and the higher classes in general . Heymanns, 1841 ( google.de [accessed January 22, 2018]).
7. ↑ Franz Lorenz: Franz Benda and his descendants . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 1967, ISBN 978-3-11-081780-5 ( google.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
8. ^ Yearbooks for Prussian Legislation, Jurisprudence and Legal Administration . 1836 ( google.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
9. ^ Official Journal of the Government of Magdeburg: 1832 . 1832 ( google.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
10. ^ Anton Johann Groß-Hoffinger: “The” eagle: General world and national chronicle, entertainment newspaper, literary and art newspaper for the Austrian states . To have in Komptoir, Weihburggasse No. 906. in the Bureau des Adlers, 1842 ( google.de [accessed on February 13, 2018]).