Ernst von Meding (theater director)

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Ernst Karl Georg von Meding (born March 30, 1806 in Hanover ; † 1875 ) was a Hanoverian court official and theater director .

Life

Ernst v. Meding came from the Lüneburg noble family Meding and was born on March 30, 1806 in Hanover as the son of the royal Hanoverian State and Cabinet Minister Franz von Meding , privy councilor of Hanover, and his 2nd wife Karoline Friederike Luise v. Meding born Freiin v. Etiquette born.

Meding began his law studies in Göttingen in 1823, switched to the University of Heidelberg, but studied again in Göttingen from 1826, where he completed his studies. During his studies in Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Hannovera

In 1828 he initially worked as an auditor in Wennigsen and then found employment as a chamberlain in 1831 . He was then assessor in Herzberg and from 1833 in the War Ministry of the Kingdom of Hanover in Hanover. From August 1839 he was chamberlain and chief steward at the court of the queen of Hanover in Hanover. He held this office for a total of 25 years until 1865, from 1843 under the last Queen of Hanover Marie of Hanover .

From 1837 to 1839 Meding also worked as the second director of the Hoftheater in Hanover alongside Count Julius von Platen-Hallermund in the management of the theater. In 1842, after a six-month vacancy, Meding became the theater director of the court theater of the Kingdom of Hanover as the successor to Chamberlain Theodor von dem Bussche . His successor was again vd Bussche in 1845.

For his services he was awarded the Guelph Order in the Commandeur Order and the Prussian Red Eagle Order. Meding was unmarried and died in 1875.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enrolled on October 15, 1826. see: Götz von Selle (Ed.): Die Matrikel der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen - 1734 - 1837. Kraus Reprint, 1980, ISBN 978-3-262-00030-8
  2. ^ Hector Berlioz : Memoirs. Hainholz, 2007, p. 547, FN 26.
  3. ↑ Cornelia Roolfs: The Hanover court from 1814 to 1866 - court and court society. Volume 124: From sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony. Hahnsche Buchhandlung , 2005, p. 314.
  4. ^ State Archives Hanover , inventory of the directorate of the Hoftheater in Hanover

literature

  • Günter Katzenberger, Katharina Hottmann: "Our court is a very strong god ...": Hanover's opera around 1850 in the field of tension between artists, king and court officials - with numerous unpublished documents and letters from Heinrich Marschner and others. Lower Saxony. State Theater, 2008
  • Hector Berlioz : Memoirs. Hainholz, 2007, p. 547.
  • Cornelia Roolfs: The Hanoverian court from 1814 to 1866 - court and court society. Volume 124: From sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony. Hahnsche Buchhandlung , 2005, pp. 151, 314.
  • Herbert Dennert:  Meding, Ernst von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 600 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Meding, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meding, Ernst Karl Georg von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian court official and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1875