Ernst Konstantin von Schubert

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Ernst Konstantin von Schubert (* July 2, 1757 , † March 28, 1835 in Wolgast ) was a lawyer and civil servant in Sweden , Swedish Pomerania and Prussia .

Life

The son of Johann Ernst Schubert and Johanna Friederike Schultze came to Greifswald in 1764 when his father was appointed professor of theology at the University of Greifswald . He attended the city ​​school and from 1773 studied law at the university. The father's death in 1774 brought the family into financial difficulties. At the instigation of the governor-general of Swedish-Pomerania, Fredrik Carl Sinclair, the mother received an annual pension of 150 thalers for herself and her seven unsupervised children. Payments from the widows' fund of the Greifswald professors and the sale of the father's library enabled the sons to continue their education. The maintenance costs for the visit to the University of Göttingen by Ernst Konstantin and his brother Wilhelm Julius Ludwig were high.

In 1778 Ernst Konstantin Schubert traveled to Sweden without his mother's knowledge to try his luck there. He was finally accepted into the house of Professor Solander, who also taught him. He passed the lawyer exam and earned his living as a lawyer and private teacher. Because of Solander's death in 1784, he had to give up the plan for a further academic education. He then took over the management of the lessons for the son of the Stockholm- based Russian wholesaler Seminow.

He became known to Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Hessenstein through a legal article . He was Governor General of Swedish Pomerania and offered Schubert a position as Secretary of the Government in Stralsund , which he took up in 1786. In 1788 he was appointed councilor and in 1792 councilor . In 1793 he became secretary of the foreign department in Stockholm. In particular after the transfer of State Secretary Christoffer Bogislaus Zibet , he was increasingly entrusted with the affairs of Swedish Pomerania to support Nils Barck. During the trial of the court lady Magdalena Rudenschöld and her lover Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt , Schubert was suspected of conspiracy with Armfelt and transferred to Pomerania. Relieved of the allegations, he was commissioned in 1794 to deal with the disputes between the Swedish government in Pomerania and the estates. It was about the imperial contingent, the Greifswald salt works and the introduction of new Hufenmatrikel. He dealt with these matters to the satisfaction of the regent, but his decrees provoked opposition from the Wismar tribunal and the estates. Schubert was then transferred to Wolgast as license administrator in 1795, against which he opposed the king unsuccessfully. He was finally released from the allegations in these matters and appointed a member of a visitation commission for Pomerania, which worked from June to August 1796, under the direction of General Cederström. He had to do most of the work of the commission, as he was the only member able to speak both German and Swedish. Then he worked again in his Wolgast office. In 1799 Schubert was reappointed a member of the matriculation committee. In November of the same year he was made a Knight of the North Star Order .

In addition to his work as a license inspector, he worked in 1801 for the military security of the coasts and in 1803 as director of the quarantine because of the plague that broke out in south-western Europe. In 1805 and 1806 he worked directly on behalf of King Gustav IV Adolf . After the repeal of the Pomeranian constitution by the king, he was entrusted with the translation of the Swedish code into German and with the revision of the existing translations. To complete this work, he traveled to Sweden, but had to return to Pomerania before it was completed, as French troops had occupied the country. On a royal mandate, he maintained communication with Kolberg, which was besieged by the French . With the continental barrier ordered by Napoleon , trade and shipping came to a standstill, which also reduced his personal income.

In 1812 he and his brother Wilhelm Julius Ludwig were raised to the Swedish nobility. After the transfer of Swedish Pomerania to Prussia in 1815 , he initially remained in his office. After the introduction of the Prussian tax system in New Western Pomerania , he retired in 1821. In retirement, he dealt with literary work, particularly on Swedish history. From 1824 he was completely disabled due to an illness. A few years before his death in 1835, the Prussian government honored him with the title of Privy Councilor.

family

Ernst Konstantin von Schubert had married Maria Kriebel in Wolgast in 1796, a daughter of the provost Johann August Kriebel . His son Friedrich Wilhelm (* 1797) inherited his father's title of nobility and served in the Prussian military, where he achieved the rank of colonel . Of his three daughters, the middle one named Johanna remained unmarried, while the older Charlotte married the Appellationsrat Friedrich von Seeckt and the younger Wilhelmine married the Wolgast merchant and shipowner August Wilhelm Homeyer .

Fonts

  • Excerpts from the manuscripts pertaining to older, new and recent Swedish history, translated from Swedish, with annotations. 1st volume Berlin 1833.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New necrology of the Germans. Thirteenth year, BF Voigt, Weimar 1837, pp. 879–884 ( Google books ).
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Ernst Konstantin von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schubert, Ernst Konstantin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and civil servant in Sweden, Swedish Pomerania and Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1757
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1835
Place of death Wolgast