Eduard von Könneritz

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Eduard von Könneritz (born April 10, 1802 in Merseburg , † August 12, 1875 in Weigsdorf , today Cunewalde ) was a German civil servant.

Personal

Eduard von Könneritz was born as the son of the Saxon Landstallmeister of the Hochstift Merseburg Hans Wilhelm Traugott von Könneritz (1753-1829) and the Countess Armgard Caroline Albertine, born von Hohenthal (1768-1837). His siblings were Hans Heinrich von Könneritz (1790–1863), Hans Wilhelm von Könneritz (1791–1859), Julius Traugott Jacob von Könneritz (1792–1866), Agnes von Burkersroda auf Burgheßler in Thuringia (1796–1834) and Countess Clara Luise von Helldorf zu Wolmirstädt in Thuringia (1804–1870). Eduard von Könneritz married Clara von Leipziger (born January 30, 1825 in Wermsdorf; † September 27, 1885 Weigsdorf) in Kropstädt on May 2, 1842, the daughter of the royal Saxon district forest master Karl Heinrich Adolf von Leipziger . Eduard von Könneritz and his wife had two daughters, Maria Theresia (Rosa), born on February 9, 1849 in Dresden, and Felicie, born on September 3, 1853 in Weigsdorf. Eduard von Könneritz was the owner of the Weigsdorf manor, where he died in 1875.

Career

The private tutor of the von Könneritz siblings was the future archdeacon Simon von Leipzig. Eduard was a student at the Roßleben monastery and studied law in Leipzig. He passed his exam there with distinction. So he was able to enter the civil service in 1827. From 1836 he accompanied the office of governor in Freiberg. Immediately afterwards, in 1840, he worked as a councilor in Dresden. He was also employed as district director in Bautzen for several years. In the years 1861–1863 von Könneritz was district director in Dresden. Von Könneritz fulfilled other tasks as government commissioner of the Löbau-Zittauer and Zittau-Reichenbacher railways, government commissioner of the rural bank of Upper Lusatia and as a full member of the State Council since about 1856.

Appreciations

For his work, Eduard von Könneritz received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Civil Merit in 1847 and the Iron Crown II class from the Emperor of Austria in 1851 , in 1861 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Zittau and on December 15, 1864 an honorary citizen of the city of Dresden . In January 1864 von Könneritz was appointed royal Saxon civil commissioner for the Elbe duchies with the title of a real privy councilor for his services as federal commissioner for Holstein and Lauenburg and received the grand cross. In 1875 he was appointed President of the Evangelical Lutheran State Consistory.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eckart Säuberlich: 800 years of Wermsdorf 1206-2006 . Sax-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-934544-93-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses: at the same time the nobility register of the associations united in the honorary association of the German nobility . Julius Perthes, 1918 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses: at the same time the nobility register of the associations united in the honorary association of the German nobility . Julius Perthes, 1918 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ Johannes George Ludwig HESEKIEL: Album of the students for the Rossleben monastery from 1742 to 1854 . 1854 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Outline of the German administrative history 1815-1945: Central Germany. Saxony . Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Institut, 1975, ISBN 978-3-87969-129-6 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  6. ^ Illustrirte Zeitung: Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, New York . Weber, 1864 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  7. ↑ Biographical Yearbook and German Nekrolog . Georg Reimer, 1913 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  8. ^ Esders department store officially opened. December 15, 2006, accessed June 7, 2020 .
  9. ^ Plate 892, Eduard Freiherr von Könneritz. Dresden City Museum - museum-digital: sachsen, accessed on June 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Könneritz, Eduard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1875
Place of death Weigsdorf , today Cunewalde