Eugen von Puttkamer

Eugen von Puttkamer

Eugen von Puttkamer

Eugen von Puttkamer (born October 12, 1800 in Zemlin , † April 17, 1874 in Lübben (Spreewald) ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

origin

Eugen von Puttkamer was a member of the Puttkamer noble family . He was a son of District Administrator Lorenz Friedrich von Puttkamer (1741-1814) and his second wife Eleonore Moldenhauer (1764-1838). His older brother Albert von Puttkamer (1797–1861) became district administrator in the districts of Czarnikau and Samter in the province of Posen and from 1859 to 1861 a member of the Prussian House of Representatives.

Career

After attending grammar school in Berlin and studying law from 1817 in Berlin and Heidelberg, he was a one-year volunteer in the military. In 1822 he became a trainee lawyer at the Supreme Court in Berlin. In 1825 he was appointed assessor and moved to the higher regional court in Frankfurt (Oder) . In 1830 he became an unskilled laborer in the Ministry of Finance, in 1831 an appellate judge in Marienwerder and then in Stettin . In 1836 he entered the administrative service and became district administrator of the Randow district . In addition, he was landscape councilor of the Western Pomerania department and co-curator of the Knightly Bank for Pomerania. In 1839 he moved to the office of police chief of Berlin. When he left this position on April 27, 1847, von Puttkamer was made an honorary citizen of Berlin . The award sparked public protest.

In 1847 he became regional president in Frankfurt (Oder). In April 1848, he was given the title of Real Secret Upper Government Councilor. He became Ministerial Director in the Ministry of the Interior and was briefly responsible for its administration at the end of 1848. In 1851/52 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and, from 1851 to 1860, he was President of the Province of Poznan and President of the Government. In 1861 he retired.

Marriages and offspring

Eugen von Puttkamer was married to Emilie von Zitzewitz (* 1803; † 1852). The marriage had five children:

• Richard von Puttkamer (* 1826; † 1898), Prussian district administrator
• Robert von Puttkamer (* 1828; † 1900), Prussian Minister of the Interior, MdH
• Bernhard von Puttkamer (* 1838; † 1906), Prussian politician, MdA
• Jesco von Puttkamer (* 1841; † 1918), Prussian District President, MdA, MdH
• Elisabeth von Puttkamer (* 1841) ∞ Bernhard von Puttkamer (* 1825; † 1904), Prussian major general, MdH

After the death of his first wife, he married his niece Sidonie Emilie Johann von Puttkamer (* 1824, † 1912), daughter of his brother Albert von Puttkamer, on April 8, 1856 on Samter .

Honors

Puttkamerstraße is named after him in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg .

literature

• Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 .
• Ellinor von Puttkamer (editor): History of the sex v. Puttkamer (= German Family Archives, Volume 83–85). 2nd edition, Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1984, ISBN 3-7686-5064-2 , pp. 685-686
• Martin Sprungala : Eugen von Puttkamer (1800–1874), the 7th High President of Poznan. In: Poznan Voices , No. 1, Lüneburg 2012
• Puttkamer, Eugen von . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Vol. 8, 2nd edition, KG Saur, Munich and Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25038-5 .
• Rainer Paetau (edit.): The Minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 5. In: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Acta Borussica . New episode. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-487-11002-4 , p. 338 ( Online ( Memento from January 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); PDF  2.28 MB).
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1906, p.630f

Web links

• Eugen von Puttkamer on the side of the Association of the von Puttkamer family (with picture)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Neugebauer:  Puttkamer, Robert Viktor Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 20 f. ( Digitized version ).
2. ^ 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. 762 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses . 7th year (1906), pp. 630-632 ( online ).