Ferdinand von Münchhausen

Ferdinand Freiherr von Münchhausen

Ferdinand Carl Wilhelm August von Münchhausen , since 1864 Freiherr von Münchhausen , (born September 23, 1810 in Straussfurt , † July 21, 1882 in Stettin ) was President of the Prussian Province of Pomerania in Stettin and a member of the Prussian mansion .

Life

After attending the Gymnasium Klosterschule Roßleben , Münchhausen studied law at the Georg-August University of Göttingen (1830-1831) and the Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Berlin (1831-1833). In 1830 he became a member of the Corps Hassia Göttingen. In 1833 he became auscultator at the regional and municipal court in Magdeburg. In 1836 he switched to the Prussian administrative service, completed the government traineeship with the government in Magdeburg , passed the government assessor examination in 1841 and became an unskilled worker at the General Commission for the Province of Saxony in Stendal. In 1842 he was appointed Special Commissarius in Gardelegen. In 1848 he came to the Commission for the Regulation of Elb-Deich-Matters in Torgau. In 1849 he was promoted to the government council and assigned to the college of the general commission in Stendal and then to the government in Magdeburg.

From 1850 to 1853, Ferdinand Freiherr von Münchhausen served as district administrator in the district of Jerichow I with its seat in Loburg , then as senior government councilor and director of the general commission for the Magdeburg administrative district in Stendal, and from 1855 as vice-president of the government in Magdeburg. From 1862 to 1867 he then took on the duties of a regional president of the Frankfurt administrative district in Frankfurt an der Oder . From 1867 to 1882, von Münchhausen was senior president of the Prussian province of Pomerania in Stettin, while at the same time performing the official duties of the regional president of the administrative district of Stettin .

On December 28, 1864, the Prussian Herald's Office recognized the title of baron he wielded .

MP

Münchhausen was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1849 to 1853 . In the 1st legislative period in 1849 he was a member of the constituency of Magdeburg 4 in the Auerswald-Schwerin parliamentary group , in the second legislative period in the Magdeburg 2 electoral district in the right-wing parliamentary group and in the third parliamentary term until his resignation on September 30, 1853 for the constituency of Magdeburg 2, faction unknown.

In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

From 1879 until his death in 1882 he was a member of the Prussian mansion, dean and senior of the cathedral monastery of Merseburg and castle captain of Merseburg.

family

He was the son of Eugen von Münchhausen (1780–1854), district administrator of the Weissensee district , and Auguste von Arnim ad H. Theessen. Together with his brothers Georg and Karl, he inherited the Thuringian estate of Straussfurt and Hobeck near Leitzkau near Magdeburg. In 1842 he married Amalie von Münchhausen, daughter of Karl Adolph von Münchhausen at Althaus Leitzkau and Hobeck.

literature

• Klaus Schwabe (Ed.): The Prussian Oberpräsident 1815–1945 (= German ruling classes in modern times. Vol. 15 = Büdinger research on social history. 1981). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1985, ISBN 3-7646-1857-4 .
• Jochen Lengemann: The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850 , 2000, pp. 224–225.
• 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 , p. 182.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses 1894. Forty-fourth year, p.597

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 73 , 78