Friedrich Leopold von Schrötter
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Friedrich Leopold Imperial Baron von Schrötter (born February 1, 1743 in Wohnsdorf in what would later become the Bartenstein district (Eastern Prussia) , Kingdom of Prussia ; † June 30, 1815 in Berlin ) was a Prussian officer and minister. He was one of the Prussian reformers.
origin
His parents were the heir to the residential village Friedrich Wilhelm von Schrötter (1712-1790) and his wife Helene Barbara von der Gröben († 1773) from the House of Baeslack, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Albrecht Siegmund von der Gröben . The district president Karl Wilhelm von Schrötter was his brother, another brother Friedrich Ludwig (* 1741) was a Prussian lieutenant colonel.
Life
Schrötter stood with Immanuel Kant , Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder. Ä. and Johann Georg Scheffner in connection. Since 1791 chief president in Königsberg i. Pr. , He obliged all students who wanted to be employed in the East Prussian finance department to attend lectures by Christian Jakob Kraus . In 1795 he went to Berlin as Minister for East Prussia . In 1807/08 he was a member of the Combined Immediatkommission . With Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein and others, he was a pioneer of the Prussian reforms . Schrötter lived to see the end of the French era .
Of particular importance is the Schroettersche Landesaufnahme initiated by him in 1796 after West Prussia was incorporated into the Prussian state. With reference to this, the Polish city of Płock was renamed Schröttersburg in 1941 during the German occupation of Poland , which lasted until the Wehrmacht surrendered .
family
His son Eduard Ferdinand von Schroetter studied law at the University of Heidelberg. He fell as a Prussian officer in the Wars of Liberation on October 30, 1813 in the Battle of Hanau.
Fonts
- Map of East Prussia with Prussian Litthauen and West Prussia and Netzedistrict 1796–1802. In: Historical-Geographical Atlas of the Prussian Country. Delivery 6, Steiner, Wiesbaden 1978, ISBN 3-515-02671-1 .
Honors
- Order of the Red Eagle (1798)
- Alexander Nevsky Order (1807)
- Black Eagle Order (1808)
- Renaming of Płocks in Schroettersburg (1941–1945)
literature
- Ludwig von Baczko : Memorandum to Friedrich Leopold Reichsfreiherrn von Schroetter. Sword, Königsberg 1815.
- Gottlieb Krause : Schrötter, Friedrich Leopold Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 579-582.
- Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
- Richard Armstedt: history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia . Reprint of the original edition, Stuttgart 1899.
- Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia . 3 volumes. Böhlau, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
- 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. 911 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of baronial houses, 1859, ninth year, p.758
Web links
- Friedrich Leopold von Schrötter at Stammreihen.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen. Volume 1, 1809-1899, Göttingen 2002, p. 272 No. 034.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schrötter, Friedrich Leopold von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schrötter, Friedrich Leopold Imperial Baron von; Schroetter, Friedrich Leopold Imperial Baron of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian officer and reformer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1743 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Residential village |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1815 |
| Place of death | Berlin |