Eduard von Schrötter

Eduard Alfred Gottfried Freiherr von Schrötter (born March 22, 1822 in Marienwerder , West Prussia ; † December 8, 1883 in Pankow , Barnim ) was a Prussian lawyer and district administrator .

Life

origin

His grandfather was the Prussian Minister of Justice Karl Wilhelm von Schrötter (1748–1819). His parents were the secret judge and judge at a Prussian court of appeal Ferdinand von Schrötter (1785–1863) and his wife Elisabeth, b. Wedeke († February 19, 1849), a daughter of court preacher Johann Christoph Wedeke . The district administrator Bruno von Schrötter (1816–1888) and the major general Theobald von Schroetter (1820–1881) were his brothers.

Career and education

After graduating from high school, Eduard von Schrötter studied law at the University of Königsberg from 1842 to 1845 . Then he also went to the judiciary.

Initially he worked at the Marienwerder Court of Appeal . In 1850 he was appointed district administrator of the Kulm district (today Chełmno ) and also became a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . On March 10, 1868 he became district administrator of the Hanau district , and a year later also director of the local consistory . In 1870 there were civil protests against his administration. Formally he was in office until his death in 1883, but he died in a psychiatric clinic near Berlin .

family

He was married twice. On June 18, 1850, he married Luise Georgine Hedwig von Platen (1835–1907), who is said to have been the model for Theodor Fontane's fictional character Effi Briest .

• Margarethe Hedwig Elisabeth Emma (born September 24, 1852) ⚭ 1870 NN Harms, Premier-Lieutenant
• Katharina Ferdinand Luise Ida (born January 13, 1854)
• Eberhard Ferdinand Ludwig Alfred (born March 11, 1855)

On June 8, 1866, in Königsberg, he married Luise Natalie Freiin von Meerscheidt called von Hüllessem (* May 29, 1828 - September 4, 1868), widow of Wilhelm Otto Gustav Eduard von Saucken (* March 27, 1822; † 24. November 1858).

Honors

He received several prestigious awards, including the title of " Secret Government Council ".

literature

• Georg-Wilhelm Hanna (edit.): The district of Hanau and its district administrators. Ed .: Kreissparkasse Hanau . Hanau 1989, p. 20.
• Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945 (= sources and research on Hessian history. 70). Ed .: Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse . Darmstadt / Marburg 1988. ISBN 3-88443-159-5 .
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses . 1873, volume 23, p. 635.

Web links

• Schrötter, Eduard Alfred Gottfried Freiherr von. Hessian biography. (As of February 3, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Remarks

1. ↑ The Hanau Consistory was the supreme church authority of the “ Hanau Union ”, the united Protestant churches in the area of ​​the former County of Hanau-Münzenberg .
2. ↑ She was the sister of his sister-in-law and after the divorce in Magdeburg married the Prussian captain Alfons Liebermann von Sonnenberg († June 13, 1873). Compare: Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses . 1903. Fourth year, p. 706.
3. ^ So: Franz Menges in NDB XXIII, p. 593. Cf. however: Effi Briest and Elisabeth von Plotho.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hanna: Hanau district.
2. ↑ According to Luise Natalie von Meerscheidt at: haduloha.de.