Christian Theodor von Meien

Christian Theodor von Meien (born January 8, 1781 in Hellinghausen , Grafschaft Lippe , † November 30, 1857 at Gut Exten ) was a German landowner, administrative lawyer and politician.

Life

Growing up on the Hellinghausen domain, Christian Theodor von Meien studied law at the Friedrich Alexander University . There he joined the Erlangen Westphalia (1794-1809) in 1801. After completing his studies, he entered the Lippe civil service. From 1807 he was an auditor in the office of Schötmar and later an official in the office of Horn . The Princess Pauline appointed him in 1817 to the state government in which he served first as Regierungsassessor and 1820 as a government. In 1850 he was appointed regional president of the Principality of Lippe by Prince Leopold II and held the office under his successor, Prince Leopold III. until 1853. From 1817 to 1853 he had a decisive influence on politics in Lippe. Through his marriage to Johanna Luise Wilhelmine Grimmell in 1809, he became the owner of the Exten manor , which is still owned by the von Meien family today.

literature

Norbert Hohaus: The cover book of the government councilor Christian von Meien, living conditions of a Detmold family of officials in the early 19th century , 1991, ISBN 3-925670-42-4
Ernst-Hermann Grefe: The Mediatization Question and the Principality of Lippe in the Years 1848–1849, Diss., 1965, p. 6

Web links

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Manor Exten

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Meyer-Camberg : The Erlanger Westphalia 1794-1809 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corpsstudentische Geschichtsforschung, Vol. 24 (1979), pp. 74–94, here p. 88.

personal data
SURNAME	Meien, Christian Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meien, Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landowner, administrative lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 8, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hellinghausen
DATE OF DEATH	November 30, 1857
Place of death	Exten

[1] Ernst Meyer-Camberg : The Erlanger Westphalia 1794-1809 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corpsstudentische Geschichtsforschung, Vol. 24 (1979), pp. 74–94, here p. 88.