Erhard Ursinus

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Erhard Ursinus (* 1706 probably in Perleberg ; † September 6, 1785 in Aken ) was a royal Prussian secret war, domain and chief finance advisor.

Life

Erhard Ursinus began studying law in Halle in November 1724 . From 1726 he was in royal Prussian service, initially in the tax administration in East Prussia . In 1745 Ursinus was a lumberjack in Königsberg , at the same time he held the title of war council. In November of the same year he was appointed Licentdirector in Königsberg. Towards the end of 1749, the king balanced the highly regarded status of the Prussian license income. After the king had convinced himself of Ursinus' professional qualities in a personal meeting in Königsberg in 1750, he was commissioned to regularly revise the license coffers of Pillau and Memel and to increase the income there. Since he obviously succeeded, in December 1751 he was promoted to Finance Councilor in the General Directory. Thus, he was in front of the V Department and acted as the right hand of the king in questions of trade and industry until the 1960s. In March 1766 he concluded the Mess-Commercien-Convention with his Saxon office colleague .

In October he submitted a critical report on the economic situation, which was cashed in by the king. In December Ursinus was taken to the Spandau Fortress, where he was imprisoned for a year. Immediately after his release from prison, Ursinus left Berlin and went to Aken, where he spent his old age as a private citizen. An application for a pension in November 1776 with reference to 40 years of service was rejected. He died of Schlagfluss at the age of 79 .

family

Louisa Elisabeth Ursinus (* 1705; † after 1765), who married the licentiate Johann Friedrich Schnell (* around 1740; † after 1808) before 1740 and died as the wife of the merchant Schultz from Perleberg, was probably a sister of Erhard Ursinus. In 1738 he married Regina Dorothea Maescovius (* 1713; † 1798), the third daughter of the pastor at the Löbenichtschen Hospital in Königsberg, Samuel Maescovius († before 1738).

The marriage produced five sons:

  • Christian Heinrich Ursinus (* 1746), Provincial Tobacco Director in Poznan
  • Carl Sigismund Ursinus (* 1747; † 1831) Ober-Akziserat,
⚭I Catharina Dorothea Elisabeth Gardemin
⚭II Marie Anne Cuny, daughter of Johann Jacob Cuny († 1817), a merchant in Magdeburg
  • Georg Ludwig Ursinus (* 1748; † 1792), War and Domain Councilor
  • Theodor Gottlieb Ursinus (* 1749; † 1800), until 1792 as senior judge in Stendal, then Privy Councilor of Justice and government director in Berlin
⚭ 1779 Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Weingarten (* 1760; † 1836)
  • August Friedrich Ursinus (* 1754; † 1805), lawyer, secretary to General Graf v. Möllendorf , 1781 secret expeditionary secretary at the general directorate in Berlin, 1786 council of war, 1798 secret war council, poet and playwright
⚭I Christina Catharina Elisabeth Lieber, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm Lieber, guild elder in Berlin
⚭II 1790 Sophie Henriette Voigtel, daughter of Traugott Fürchtegott Voigtel, criminal inspector in Magdeburg

literature

  • Historical portfolio 1786, p. 374, No. 19 (digitized version)
  • Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 1038-1041 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Rolf Straubel: Between monarchical autocracy and bourgeois striving for emancipation. Berlin 2012, pp. 7-64 (digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Old Prussian Gender Studies (APG), Volume 4, year 1940, p. 48
  2. ↑ APG, Volume 4, year 1941, p. 96
  3. ^ A b Nadja Stulz-Herrnstadt: Berlin bourgeoisie in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Berlin 2002, p. 364 (digitized version)
  4. ^ Hugo Holstein:  Ursinus, August Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 365.
  5. ↑ Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Helmut Riege: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock letters. 1776-1782. Berlin 1982, pp. 487–494, No. 53 (digitized version )
  6. ^ Hugo Holstein: August Friedrich Ursinus. In: Archives for the Study of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures. Ludwig Herrig (Ed.), XXXII. Volume 59, Braunschweig 1878, pp. 1–32
  7. ↑ Nadja Stulz-Herrnstadt: (2002), p. 351
personal data
SURNAME Ursinus, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION royal Prussian secret war, domain and regional finance council
DATE OF BIRTH 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH Pearl Mountain
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1785
Place of death Aken (Elbe)