Friedrich von Motz
Friedrich Christian Adolf Motz , von Motz since 1780 (born November 18, 1775 in Kassel , † June 30, 1830 in Berlin ) was a Prussian statesman , Prussian finance minister , chief president of the province of Saxony and regional president of Erfurt and Magdeburg .
origin
He came from a family of Hessian officials. His great-great-grandfather, the war councilor Johann Christian Motz , was in command of the Kassel residence and fortress . His grandfather was Christian Heinrich Motz (1687–1751), Herr auf Oberurff as well as the Hessian Privy Council and Government Vice Chancellor in Kassel.
His parents were the Hessian Real Secret Council and President of the Higher Appeal Court Justin Motz (1733-1813) and his wife Johanna Rieß (1744-1818), a daughter of the Real Secret Council Johann Philipp Riess (1693-1768). His father was raised to the imperial nobility in 1780 . A son of his uncle, the secret government councilor Franz Benjamin Riess , was the Minister of the Electorate of Hesse, Franz Hugo Riess von Scheurnschloß (1781-1857).
Life
Motz first studied law in Marburg from 1792 to 1794 and then took over a position in the Prussian service as an auscultator in Halberstadt in 1795 . In 1801 he was appointed District Administrator of Halberstadt . From 1803 to 1807 he held this position in Eichsfeld .
During the time of Napoleonic rule, he worked for the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1808 to 1813 as director of taxes in Heiligenstadt . From 1803 to 1807 he was a member of the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia .
After the defeat of Napoleon Motz worked under Wilhelm Anton von Klewiz in Halberstadt in the civil government. After the Erfurt administrative district was founded in 1816 , Motz became its first president. In 1821 Motz took over the role of Chief President of the Prussian Province of Saxony in Magdeburg, which he held until 1825, initially on a provisional basis parallel to his Erfurt office and from November 1824 on.
During this time Motz was committed to a reorganization of the judiciary and the introduction of the Stein town order . However, his name is also associated with the construction of many roads and the promotion of the regional textile industry .
In 1825 he was appointed secret minister of state and finance by the Prussian king and moved from Magdeburg to Berlin on June 16, 1825. His most important achievement in this office was the preparation for the establishment of the German Customs Union , which he did not live to see in 1834. His work was characterized by a progressive economic and administrative policy.
He saw the Zollverein as a station on the way to a state unification of Germany, where he propagated the small German solution under Prussian hegemony.
family
He married Albertine von Hagen (1779–1852) in Halberstadt in 1799 , heiress of the Vollenborn and Rehungen estates. She was the daughter of the Halberstadt district administrator Karl von Hagen (1756-1804) and Countess Henriette von Schlitz called von Görtz . The couple had five surviving children including:
- Sophie Marie Auguste (* February 19, 1807; † December 9, 1856) ⚭ Johann Friedrich August Rudolf Hiller von Gaertringen (* May 4, 1801; † October 27, 1866)
- Albertine († 1865) ⚭ 1819 Friedrich Anton Ernst Ferdinand von den Brincken (born February 23, 1793), District Administrator in the Birnbaum district and Landstallmeister zu Zirke
- Justin Heinrich, forester in Cöslin
- Bernhard Rudolf (1804–1862), chief forester in Leubusch
- Ernst Karl Adrian (born September 10, 1805; † February 22, 1858), District Administrator ⚭ Emma Viktoria von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (born March 17, 1816; † August 28, 1868)
Honors
- Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class
- Iron Cross
The city of Magdeburg named a street in his honor as Motzstraße . There is also a Motzstraße in the Schöneberg district of Berlin . There is also a Motzstraße in the south of Erfurt and in Kassel. Von Motz is buried in the historic cemetery of the Dorotheenstädtische and Friedrichwerder community in Berlin-Mitte .
literature
- Stefan Hartmann: Motz, Friedrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 228-230 ( digitized version ).
- Adolf Hasenclever: Friedrich von Motz . In: Central German Life Pictures . 2. Life pictures of the 19th century. Magdeburg 1927, p. 92-106 .
- Paul Lauerwald: Friedrich von Motz, landlord in Vollenborn and first Prussian district administrator in the Eichsfeld sub-district. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift. Vol. 56 (2012), volume 2, Mecke Druck und Verlag, Duderstadt 2012, pp. 54–56.
- Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 269.
- Friedrich von Motz, Friedrich Christian Adolph von Motz: a biography with portrait a. Facsimile , digitized version
- Mathias Tullner : Motz, Friedrich Christian Adolf von. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 .
- Martin Wiehle : Magdeburg personalities. Published by the Magistrate of the City of Magdeburg, Department of Culture. imPuls Verlag, Magdeburg 1993, ISBN 3-910146-06-6 .
- Karl Wippermann: Motz, Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 408-410.
Web links
- Friedrich von Motz in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
- Motz, Friedrich Christian Adolf von. Hessian biography. (As of November 19, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ^ Contemporaries, Volume 2, 1830, p. 35
- ^ Karl Wilhelm Justi , Basis for a Hessian Scholar, Writer and Artist History , Volume 19, Marburg an der Lahn 1831, p. 535
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1864. Fourteenth year, p.371
- ^ Genealogical yearbook of the German nobility for 1848, p.242
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Bülow | Klewiz | Motz | Dimensions | Alvensleben | E. Bodelschwingh | Flottwell | Duesberg | Hansemann | Bonin | Raven | C. Bodelschwingh | Patow | Heydt | C. Bodelschwingh | Heydt | Camphausen | Hobrecht | Bitter | Scholz | Miquel | Rheinbaben | Lentze | Hergt | Südekum | Hugo Simon | Südekum | Lüdemann | Saemisch | Judge | Brown | Höpker-Aschoff | Scribe | Klepper | Schleusener (Reich Commissioner) | Popitz (Reich Commissioner)
Friedrich von Bülow (1816–1821 ) | Friedrich von Motz (1821 / 24–1825) | Wilhelm Anton von Klewiz (1825–1837) | Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1837–1840) | Eduard von Flottwell (1841–1844) | Wilhelm von Wedell (1844–1845) | Gustav von Bonin (1845–1850) | Hartmann von Witzleben (1850–1872) | Robert von Patow (1873–1881) | Arthur von Wolff (1881–1890) | Albert von Pommer Esche (1890–1897) | Karl Heinrich von Boetticher (1898–1906) | Kurt von Wilmowsky (1906–1908) | Wilhelm von Hegel (1908–1917) | Rudolf von der Schulenburg (1917–1919) | Otto Hörsing (1920–1927) | Heinrich Waentig (1927–1930) | Carl Falck (1930-1932) | Friedrich von Velsen (1933) | Kurt Melcher (1933) | Curt von Ulrich (1933–1944) | Erhard Hübener (1945)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Motz, Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Motz, Friedrich Christian Adolf von; Motz, Friedrich Christian Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian statesman , finance minister , senior president , district president |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1830 |
| Place of death | Berlin |