Eduard von Schmidlin

Eduard Schmidlin , from 1844 von Schmidlin , (born April 15, 1804 in Schöntal ; † July 25, 1869 in Stuttgart ) was a civil servant and from 1848 to 1849 acting minister of culture of the Kingdom of Württemberg .

ancestry

Eduard Schmidlin came from an old Württemberg family of so-called honesty, which had produced many theologians and officials. He was the son of the later Württemberg Interior and Culture Minister Christoph Friedrich von Schmidlin (* 1780; † 1830) and Karoline Auguste née Enßlin (* 1780; † 1832), the daughter of a merchant from Stuttgart.

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From the age of six Eduard Schmidlin lived in Stuttgart with his grandmother Auguste Friederike Enßlin, nee Metzler. After attending grammar school in Stuttgart, he studied law at the University of Tübingen from 1822 to 1825 . In 1822 he became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity . From 1827 to 1829 he worked as a provisional court actuary in Calw , and then as a real court actuary in Heilbronn . Further stations of his professional activity were the position of a college assistant at the court in Tübingen and with the government of the Neckar district in Ludwigsburg . After the death of his father in December 1830, his successor in office as head of the united interior and culture ministry , the privy councilor Sixt Eberhard von Kapff , brought him to the ministry as an employee of the cultural advisor Johannes Schlayer . In 1831 he was appointed assessor for the government of the Black Forest district . After Schlayer took over the management of the Kapff ministries in August 1832, Eduard Schmidlin took over the position of cultural advisor as Schlayer's successor. Schmidlin was appointed councilor and assessor of the upper government. In October 1839 he was appointed senior councilor. In a part-time position he joined the board of directors of the Württemberg savings bank in 1841 and of the state's scientific collections (library, natural history cabinet, etc.) in 1847. From 1840 to 1844 Schmidlin was a managing member of the Statistical Topographical Bureau . In the March Ministry , Schmidlin became Paul Pfizer's deputy de facto at the head of the Ministry of Culture in 1848 , as Pfizer was constantly prevented by his mandate in the Frankfurt National Assembly and by illness. Schmidlin had to speak for government policy several times in the state parliament . Eduard Schmidlin headed the Ministry of Culture from August 14, 1848 to September 16, 1849, and after the end of the March Ministry, he resigned from his old position. In 1859 he took over the direction of the study council of the Evangelical Church . In May 1861 he was elected President of the Board of Directors of the life insurance and savings bank. In 1866 he became President of the Consistory of the Evangelical Church.

family

In November 1838 Schmidlin married the Stuttgart opera singer Wilhelmine Haas. The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter. Two of the children died in their youth, one son was only 22 years old. Thus none of the children survived the father. His cousin is the German-Swiss revolutionary, hotelier and author Eduard Schmidlin .

Honors

• 1844 Commander second class of the Order of the Württemberg Crown . This was associated with the Württemberg personal nobility
• 1866 Commander 1st class of the Order of the Württemberg Crown
• 1866 Commander in first class of the Order of Frederick .
• In 1856 the law faculty of the University of Tübingen appointed him Doctor honoris causa.

literature

• Swabian Chronicle , No. 203, August 28, 1869, p. 2511
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 264.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 264.
2. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1858, p. 35.
3. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Kingdom of Württemberg 1869, p. 62.