Eduard von Schele zu Schelenburg

Eduard von Schele

Coat of arms of the
Schele family in Schelenburg

Thurn and Taxis postage stamp from Schele's tenure (1859)

Eduard August Friedrich Freiherr von Schele zu Schelenburg (born September 23, 1805 in Schelenburg ; † February 13, 1875 in Frankfurt am Main ) was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hanover and postmaster general of the private Thurn-und-Taxis-Post in Frankfurt am Main.

Life

Schele was born on September 23, 1805 in Schelenburg as the son of the Hanoverian minister Georg von Schele zu Schelenburg , who planned and carried out the coup d'etat of Ernst August I in 1837. Schele attended the Lyceum in Hanover and studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1823 to 1826 , where he became a member of the Corps Hannovera .

He then joined the ministerial bureaucracy of the Kingdom of Hanover and was also used in 1844 to train the Crown Prince . In 1847 he became Minister of Justice, but resigned a year later at the start of the Stüve Ministry . After a political break, he returned to the service of the Kingdom in 1850 and became Bundestag envoy for the Kingdom of Hanover at the German Federal Assembly of the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main.

After the death of King Ernst August in 1851 he was appointed Prime Minister ("Ministry of Schele"). In this ministry, representatives of the interests of the nobility and the bourgeoisie met; Schele as well as the minister of culture and finance, Georg Heinrich Bacmeister , tended towards the latter. The dispute between these parties did not allow any constructive government work in the long term, so that the Schele Ministry was dismissed on November 21, 1853.

From 1858–67, Schele was general post director of the private postal company of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis in Frankfurt am Main until nationalization by Prussia , where he also spent his old age. He was buried in Schelenburg.

See also

• Schele - Westphalian-Lower Saxon noble family

literature

• Hans-Joachim Behr : The barons of Schele to Schelenburg . In: Klaus J. Bade u. a. (Ed.): Schelenburg - parish - rural community. 900 years of Schledehausen . Bissendorf community, Bissendorf 1990. ISBN 3-9801676-2-3 , pp. 265-279.
• Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera (1809–1899) , Göttingen 2002, p. 99, no. 275.
• Ferdinand Frensdorff :  Schele, Eduard Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 747-751.
• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, pp. 432-438.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1855. Fifth year, p.523

Individual evidence

1. ^ Margaret Lavinia Anderson: Windthorst: Central politician and opponent of Bismarck. Droste, 1988, p. 65
2. ^ Lower Saxony yearbook for regional history. Volume 12, A. Lax, 1935, p. 226.
3. ↑ He lived in the property at Zeil 22, address book entry . The building was demolished and the new Zeil 72-82 complex was built in its place (with a different house number) after the Second World War .

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