Ernst Wilhelm Benjamin von Korckwitz

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Ernst Wilhelm Benjamin von Korckwitz (also Ernst Wilhelm Benjamin von Korkwitz) (born April 22, 1744 in Lampersdorf , † January 15, 1802 in Olschowken ) was a German civil servant.

Life

Ernst Wilhelm Benjamin von Korckwitz was the son of Christian Wilhelm Ludwig von Korckwitz (* December 9, 1715; † October 29, 1775), a royal Polish and Electoral Saxon officer of the Guard in Warsaw , heir to Ober- and Nieder-Lampersdorf, march commissioner and landscape director and his wife Juliane Elisabeth (October 15, 1717 in Wammen, Strehlen district ; † May 16, 1756), b. von Wentzky from the house of Wammen. He had four siblings, whose names are known:

  • Christian Wilhelm von Korckwitz (born March 25, 1743 - † June 26, 1819 in Groß Jenkwitz near Alzenau ), officiated as police mayor in Görlitz in 1809 ,

His nephew was Wilhelm Karl Lebrecht von Korckwitz (1765-1828), war and domain councilor .

Ernst Wilhelm Benjamin von Korckwitz enrolled on May 26, 1764 at the University of Halle to study law and began his practical work after completing his studies as a trainee lawyer at the War and Domain Chamber Glogau . In February 1773 he succeeded the late Johann Bernhard von Brixen and Montzel (1707–1771) as district administrator in the district of Groß Strehlitz and in this function drew the attention of King Friedrich II . on yourself. At the suggestion of Karl Georg von Hoym , he was promoted to first chamber director in Marienwerder by cabinet order of June 30, 1780 , thus succeeding Carl Gottlieb Vorhoff (1732–1783), who had been dismissed; shortly before that, on June 27, 1780, he had an audience with the king, in which he was instructed to concentrate primarily on improving agriculture, trade and commerce in West Prussia . He was then introduced for four weeks by the Minister Friedrich Gottlieb Michaelis (1726–1781) in the cash and camera system, who showed him the practice of the Berlin Chamber; the secret finance councilor Marcus Antonius de la Haye de Launay instructed him in West Prussian taxation. After another audience, in which the king gave him instructions for the management of the chamber and advised him to gain the necessary authority with the nobility of the province, he left for Marienwerder on August 2, 1780. After his arrival he traveled to the West Prussian province in August and September 1780 and familiarized himself with the conditions there.

After the death of the Oberpräsident Johann Friedrich von Domhardt , by order of January 3, 1782, the Marienwerder War and Domain Chamber and the Deputation in Bromberg were directly subordinate to the General Directorate . As early as mid-1782 he was severely reprimanded by the king several times, among other things because of the arrears in the payment of taxes in West Prussia. On August 5, 1782, it was said that should the Chamber continue to show default, Friedrich II would stick to its director. In the order of November 1, 1782, it was said that Ernst Wilhelm Benjamin von Korckwitz was a stupid devil who did not know the difference between amelioration (improvement) and repairs ; The king added in handwriting: What has the gentleman done in front of a dumb report, he has no common sense. O! asinus asinorum (Latin donkey). On September 16, 1785, he received a reprimand for having made an impertinent account of the recent hail damage in West Prussia. By order of April 22nd, 1786, he was reprimanded for failures in the retablissement of the West Prussian cities.

On September 21, 1786, Friedrich II had died in the meantime, he was appointed President of the Konigsberg War and Domain Chamber, succeeding Anton Gottlieb von der Goltz (1746-1821); Ludwig Friedrich von Domhardt was his successor in Marienwerder .

In April 1791 he was transferred to Marienwerder as President of the War and Domain Chamber, because for East, West a. New East Prussia an upper presidium had been established under the direction of Friedrich Leopold von Schrötter ; In an order of July 4, 1791, it was expressly stated that the transfer to West Prussia was not a sign of disgrace.

In March 1797 he was bid farewell at his own request with a pension of one thousand thalers; Hans Jacob von Auerswald (1757-1833) was his successor .

He was close friends with Carl Anton Wilhelm von Schleinitz (1751–1807), President of the Supreme Court.

Ernst Wilhelm Benjamin von Korckwitz was married to Caroline Julie von der Gröben from the Ludwigsdorff family since May 23, 1786 (* December 3, 1745, † November 23, 1823), widowed Heinrich.

Fonts (selection)

  • Christian Jacob Delahon; Eduard Sigismund von Fehrentheil; CA von Gruttschreiber; C. Heinrich; Ernst Wilhelm Benjamin von Korckwitz; CF Schmiedel; CF Websky: Ode to the high birthdays of the women on August 1st, 1764 Fried. Sophia Charlotta Augusta hereditary and state princess of Würtemberg-Oels and Bernstadt, etc., sanctified in the most submissive awe . Hall: Gebauer, 1764.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the family v. Kleist, Part 3, p. 215. 2017, accessed on January 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Korckwitz, Ernst Wilhelm Benjamin from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Korkwitz, Ernst Wilhelm Benjamin from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Lampersdorf
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1802
Place of death Olschowken