Friedrich Ludwig von Botzheim
Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr von Botzheim (born August 19, 1739 in Saarbrücken , † March 20, 1802 in Schmölln near Wurzen) was the princely Nassau-Weilburg government and chamber president.
Friedrich Ludwig von Botzheim, from the Palatine noble family Botzheim , studied at the University of Jena and then entered the Nassau civil service.
As the successor to the late Karl de la Pottrie (term of office: 1750-1770), he was headed by Prince Karl Christian von Nassau-Weilburg as the princely Nassau-Weilburg government and chamber president of Kirchheim (the then royal seat of the principality) at the head of the Nassau-Weilburg family Government appointed.
Ernst Zais ascribes special merits to him through tolerant and enlightened reforms in the church and school system. Eckhardt Treichel, on the other hand, speaks of little reform impetus.
The most important administrative change in his term of office was the rules of procedure of the state government in 1787. In addition to the previous regional principle (the councils of the government were responsible for individual offices as officials ), the real principle was also anchored in them, after the councils were also given a permanent department. The so-called Kirchheim ABC letter dispute falls during its administrative period . After Prince Karl's death in 1788, he resigned from office and lived in Wiesbaden and from 1792 in Nuremberg. His successor at the head of the Weilburg government was Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern .
He was a knight of the Electoral Palatinate White Lion Order and councilor of the Upper Rhine knight canton .
Works
- Brief life story of Prince Carl von Nassau-Weilburg, Wiesbaden, who died on November 28, 1788, 1789
- A frank call from a friend of truth to all honest Germans, Wiesbaden, 1791
literature
- Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland, or, Lexicon of the now living German writers . Volume 1, Issue 5, 1796, p. 391 ( digitized version )
- Ernst Zais: Botzheim, Friedrich Ludwig von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 209.
- Wolf-Heino Struck: Botzheim, Carl Friedrich Ludwig August Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 491 ( digitized version ).
- Eckhardt Treichel: The primacy of the bureaucracy - bureaucratic state and bureaucratic elite in the Duchy of Nassau 1608-1866 . 1991, ISBN 3-515-05446-4 , p. 42
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Eduard Geib: Der Kirchheimer ABC-Buch-Krieg, 1867, online at Wikisource
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Botzheim, Friedrich Ludwig von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Botzheim, Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princely Nassau-Weilburg government and chamber president |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1739 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarbrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1802 |
| Place of death | Schmoelln |