Ernst August von Meding (civil servant)

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Ernst August von Meding (born October 23, 1855 in Boennigsen , Kingdom of Hanover , † March 31, 1928 in Hanover ) was a German civil servant.

Life

Ernst August von Meding studied at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and became active in the Corps Bremensia in 1879 . He was initially a government official in the Kingdom of Hanover and came to Greiz in 1886 as the government and consistory secretary of the Principality of Reuss older line . In 1896 he became chamberlain to Prince Heinrich XXII. From 1901 to the November Revolution of 1918 as Prime Minister and Consistorial President of the Principality's government. 1904 he was appointed as Privy Councilor with the title of excellence characterized . He was head of government under Heinrich XXII., Heinrich XIV. JL and Heinrich XXVII. jL

He was the last bearer of the hereditary title of Hereditary Marshal of Lüneburg in his family .

literature

  • Friedrich Schneider: Ernst August von Meding (1855-1928) . In: past and present. Supplement to Greizer Zeitung No. 19 of September 22, 1928.
  • Klaus Schwabe (Hrsg.): The governments of the German medium and small states. 1815–1933 (= German leadership classes in modern times. Volume 14 = Büdinger research on social history. Volume 18). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1983, ISBN 3-7646-1830-2 , p. 273.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39 , 850
personal data
SURNAME Meding, Ernst August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant, head of government from Reuss older line
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Boennigsen near Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1928
Place of death Hanover