Friedrich Mutzenbecher

Johann Friedrich Mutzenbecher (born May 15, 1781 in Amsterdam , † April 17, 1855 in Oldenburg ) was a German administrative lawyer and district president in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .

Life

Friedrich Mutzenbecher came from the Hamburg merchant family Mutzenbecher and was a son of the then Lutheran pastor in Antwerp and later Oldenburg general superintendent Esdras Heinrich Mutzenbecher and his wife Anna Constantia (1758-1830), née. Sunday, the daughter of a banker in The Hague . When he was nine years old , he moved with his parents to Oldenburg, where he attended the old grammar school until Michaelis 1798 and studied law at the University of Göttingen until autumn 1801 . After completing his studies, he entered the Oldenburg civil service in December 1802 as a registrar in the ducal cabinet.

From 1807 he was involved as a secretary in diplomatic missions in the Netherlands , Russia and France . From 1808 to 1810 he worked first as cabinet secretary and later as legation secretary at the Oldenburg embassy in Paris . During the French occupation of Oldenburg in early 1811, he went into Russian exile with Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig and his family and was appointed court counselor .

In May 1814 he traveled again with Hans Albrecht von Maltzan to the Allied headquarters in Paris to declare that Oldenburg would join the Holy Alliance .

In 1814/15 he was Oldenburg's delegate at the Congress of Vienna , again together with Hans Albrecht von Maltzan . In the autumn of 1815 he was able to successfully conclude negotiations on a subsidy contract at Duke Wellington's headquarters in Paris. In 1816/17 he dealt with the question of war compensation for Oldenburg from France and was again temporarily in Paris. Little is known of his official activities in the following years. After Grand Duke August I came to power , Mutzenbecher was promoted to the Secret Cabinet Council on December 31, 1829 and was awarded the title of Council of State . At the request of the Grand Duke, Mutzenbecher was appointed provisionally in January 1832 and then definitively appointed Vice President of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg in December 1833. On December 31, 1836, he was finally appointed district president, an office he held until his death. When, after the German Revolution, the Basic Law of Oldenburg came into force and the government was formed by elections and no longer by the appointment of the Grand Duke, August I. Mutzenbecher offered the formation of a government and the ministerial presidency in May 1851. Mutzenbecher rejected this for objective reasons and out of consideration for his old age.

family

Mutzenbecher married Franziska Louise Antoinette born on August 27, 1824. von Trampe (1804–1884), the daughter of the Hanoverian Land and Treasury Council Just Ludwig Ernst von Trampe (1750–1809) and Auguste Luise geb. von Hattorf (1771–1807). The couple had nine children. Of the sons, August (1826–1897) was Oldenburg State Councilor, Wilhelm (1832–1878) was also Oldenburg State Councilor and Minister, and Adolf Mutzenbecher (1834–1896) was the Oldenburg Government President. Of the daughters, Konstanze Albertine (1828–1905) married the later Oldenburg State Minister Friedrich Andreas Ruhstrat (1818–1896).

literature

• August Mutzenbecher:  Mutzenbecher, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 120 f.
• Mutzenbecher, (Johann) Friedrich . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 7 : Menghin – Pötel . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094026-8 , pp. 329 ( books.google.de - limited preview).
• Hans Friedl: Mutzenbecher, Johann Friedrich. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 507-508; lb-oldenburg.de (PDF).