Franz von Meding
Franz August von Meding (born March 6, 1765 in Einbeck , † February 15, 1849 in Hanover ) was a Hanoverian mining captain and cabinet minister of the Kingdom of Hanover .
Life
Meding, a member of the von Meding family , was the son of the Hanoverian Lieutenant General Ernst August von Meding and his wife Wilhelmina Sibylla von Oldershausen (1734-1804). After attending the Lüneburg Knight Academy, he studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1783 to Michaelis 1787 . After completing his studies, Meding entered the administrative service of the Electorate of Hanover and became Bergdrost in 1790, Deputy Mining Captain in 1794 and Chamber Council in Hanover in 1797. In 1802 he was appointed mining captain in Clausthal . As early as 1803, he initiated the construction of the deep waterway and promoted the expansion of the mountain school, today's Clausthal University of Technology , which received its first school building in 1810/11. During the French period from 1812 worked for the government of the Kingdom of Westphalia in Kassel as general director of all coal and steel companies in the country. During the French era, he succeeded in withholding silver worth 3 million Thalers from the crew , which was then available for the rebuilding of the Kingdom of Hanover. In 1813 he returned to his position as mining captain in Clausthal and continued this office between 1814 and 1825 as a part-time job, because in 1814 he was appointed to the government in Hanover, where he was appointed to the Privy Council in 1816.
In Hanover, von Meding acquired a plot of land called “Vorort 1”, on which he had Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves build his own villa in the classicism style, which later became the Royal Mint at the Steintor .
Meding was Minister of the Kingdom of Hanover from 1822 to 1832 and as such was in charge of the departments of commercial and manufacturing, mining and resin matters and road construction matters. In 1838 he became hereditary marshal of the Principality of Lüneburg .
family
He was married twice. In 1793 he married his first wife Rebekka von Reden (1773-1804), the daughter of the mining captain Claus Friedrich von Reden (1736-1791) and his wife Luise von Minnigerode . The couple had three sons and a daughter. In 1805 he married Caroline von Knigge (1773-1830), the daughter of Baron Georg von Knigge (* November 27, 1731; † January 23, 1801) on Leveste and his wife Henriette Luise von Pfuel (* January 20, 1735; † February 1, 1799). The couple had two sons, including the chief steward Ernst von Meding .
literature
- Herbert Dennert: Mining and metallurgy in the Harz from the 16th to the 19th century: depicted in portraits of leading personalities . Pieper, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1960.
- Herbert Dennert : Meding, Franz von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 600 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Klaus Mlynek : Meding, Franz August Ludolf von. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 248.
Individual evidence
- ↑ NDB (lit.)
- ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl : The mint building on the Long Laube. Photography. Around 1870. In: Hannover Archive , p. 87.
- ^ Henriette Louise von Pfuel at Stammreihen.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meding, Franz von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meding, Franz August Ludolf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hanoverian miner and cabinet minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Einbeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1849 |
| Place of death | Hanover |