Christoph von Cuny
Jakob Christoph Cuny , from 1840 by Cuny , (* December 21, 1779 in Magdeburg ; † December 6, 1848 in Kleve ) was a German administrative officer and district president in Aachen .
Live and act
Cuny came from a Huguenot family who had migrated as religious refugees from Bar-le-Duc via Berlin to Magdeburg at the end of the 17th century . He was the son of the local soap manufacturer Johann Jakob (Jean Jacques) Cuny (1736-1817) and Margarethe Douzal (1746-1814) and the uncle of the entrepreneur Jean Jacques Cuny . Christoph Cuny aspired to a legal civil service career and was initially enrolled as a law student at the University of Halle in 1798 .
After completing his studies, he held several positions in municipal administration up to the senior government council in Düsseldorf . With effect from December 1, 1837, he was transferred to the district government of Aachen , where he held the office of regional president until September 30, 1844. During this time he received the Prussian title of nobility on October 15, 1840 and was also awarded the Order of the Red Eagle of the third class. Since 1838 he was a member of Club Aachener Casino . Later he spent the rest of his life in the "Villa nova" near Kleve, where he died in 1848.
Cuny had been married to Friederike Schneider from Nijmegen (1791–1864) since 1831 , with whom he had two children, including the son Ludwig von Cuny in Düsseldorf in 1833 .
literature
- Eduard Arens, Wilhelm Leopold Janssen : Club Aachener Casino , new ed. by Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens , Druck Metz, Aachen 2nd edition 1964, No. 318, p. 149
Individual evidence
- ^ Portrait of Jean Jacques Cuny in the German Huguenot Museum
- ↑ Diplomatic Archive for Contemporary and State History, Volume 21, JG Cotta 1830, p. 272 ( digitized )
- ^ Entry in the Magdeburg family database
- ↑ Biography on Teutonia Bonn
August von Reiman (1816–1834) | Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1834–1837) | Christoph von Cuny (1837–1844) | Busso von Wedell (1844–1848) | Friedrich von Kühlwetter (1848–1866) | Moritz von Bardeleben (1866–1872) | Adolf Hilmar von Leipziger (1872–1878) | Otto von Hoffmann (1878–1892) | Julian von Hartmann (1892–1907) | Max von Sandt (1907–1917) | Adolf von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels (1917–1922) | Wilhelm Rombach (1922–1928) | Georg Stieler (1928–1933) | Eggert Reeder (1933–1936) | Franz Vogelsang (1936–1945) | Ludwig Philipp Lude (1945–1950) | Heinrich Brand (1950–1955) | Hubert Schmitt-Degenhardt (1955–1967) | Josef Effertz (1968–1972)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cuny, Christoph von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cuny, Jakob Christoph von (full name); Cuny, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative officer and regional president in Aachen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1848 |
| Place of death | Kleve |