Franz Hugo Riess from Scheurnschloß

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Georg Franz Hugo Riess (before the ennoblement mostly Ries ), from 1832 Riess von Scheurnschloß (born July 19, 1781 in Marburg , † June 20, 1857 in Kassel ) was an Elector of Hesse minister.

ancestry

His father, Franz Benjamin Ries (more rarely also Rieß; born June 7, 1750 in Kassel, † December 2, 1823 in Marburg) was director of the Hesse-Kassel government in Marburg. His mother Margarethe Viktoria von Gehren (1753–1831) was the daughter of the Marburg Government Secretary Reinhold Reinhard von Gehren (1714–1797) and his wife Maria Margarethe Victoria Kirchmeier. The grave of the Ries parents is in the old cemetery at Barfüßer Tor in Marburg. His father's sister Johanna (1744-1818) was the mother of his cousin, the Prussian statesman Friedrich von Motz .

career

Franz Hugo Rieß studied law at the University of Marburg from 1797 to 1800 . He then became an assessor for the government in Marburg and then in Hanau . In 1814 he became a member of the government , at the same time director of the police department in Hanau, in 1821 a lecturer in the Hessian Justice Department and from 1826 in the Ministry of the Interior. In January 1831 he was appointed provincial director of the Hanau Province, an office which he only held from January 4 to 18, 1831, when he was appointed Minister of the Interior of the Electorate with the title “ Privy Councilor ”. He remained Minister of the Interior until his replacement by Karl Michael Eggena in January 1832. From 1832 he was the Hessian envoy to the German Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main , and also envoy in Darmstadt and Stuttgart . In 1846 he also took over the legations in The Hague and Brussels , and in 1847 with the Free City of Frankfurt. He was retired in April 1848 and went back to Kassel.

family

Rieß married Louise Sophie von Auer (1789–1841) in 1814.

Honors

On June 6, 1832 Franz Hugo Rieß was raised to the nobility of the Electorate of Hesse with the addition of von Scheurnschloß - the name of a noble family resident in Hachborn , Hessian , which died out in 1593 in the male line.

literature

  • Ewald Grothe : Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the first era Hassenpflug 1830–1837 , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 (= writings on the history of the constitution , 48), ISBN 3-428-08509-4 .
  • Harald Höffner: Kurhessens Ministerialvorstand the constitutional period 1831–1866 , phil. Diss., Giessen 1981.
  • Hellmut Seier (Ed.): Files and letters from the beginnings of the Hessian constitutional period 1830–1837 , NG Elwert, Marburg 1992 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 48.4; Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse , 8), ISBN 3-7708-0993-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photograph of the grave column of Franz Benjamin Ries and Margarethe Viktoria Ries, b. of miter.
  2. ^ Karl Wilhelm Justi : Basis for a Hessian Scholar, Writer and Artist History , Volume 19, Marburg an der Lahn 1831, p. 535 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Klein : Hessen-Nassau , Marburg 1979 (= plan for German administrative history 1815-1945 , 11), ISBN 3-87969-126-6 , p. 105.
personal data
SURNAME Rieß von Scheurnschloß, Franz Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riess, Georg Franz Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Minister of the Electorate of Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1857
Place of death kassel