Friedrich Wilhelm von Hendorff

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Hendorff , until 1759 Henrichs (* December 20, 1738 in Oldenburg ; † July 31, 1798 ibid) was a German administrative lawyer , chamberlain and later chamber director of the Duchy of Oldenburg .

Life

Hendorff was the son of the Danish General War Commissioner Johann Georg von Hendorff (July 10, 1703 - November 9, 1775) and his wife Christine geb. Schmid (1707-1793). The father was in Danish service and had been raised to the nobility in 1759 by King Frederick V of Denmark with the title of Hendorff . In 1763 he became treasurer of the then Danish counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst and for thirty years received the traveling mail that led from Bremen via Oldenburg and Apen to East Friesland .

Nothing is known about Hendorff's youth. He probably grew up being awarded by the Father Good Hahn and studied after the usual education through tutors law . The father's relationships opened the way for him to the administration of the counties. In April 1763 he was assigned to his father as an assistant cum spe succedendi (with the hope of a successor) and then quickly climbed the bureaucratic steps. In August 1767 he was appointed chancellery, received the title of judicial councilor in January 1770 and the title of budget councilor in December 1773. After the counties of Denmark fell to the younger Holstein-Gottorf line with the Treaty of Tsarskoe Selo in 1773 , Hendorff switched to their service and became chamberlain in March 1781. In April 1782 he finally took over as director of the chamber, which he held until his death.

Tomb FW v. Hendorff by Johannes Wiedewelt on the Gertrudenfriedhof

Little is known about his administration, but the technically extremely competent civil servant within the Oldenburg administration played an essential role in the last third of the 18th century and played a key role in the reforms that were initiated in the mid-1770s. Together with the top group of the Oldenburg civil service with the conducting minister Holmer , the bailiff Oeder , the cabinet secretary Trede and the judiciary Halem , Hendorff worked towards a pragmatic program for the development and modernization of the small state. He initially came into conflict with Landvogt Oeder, who was transferred from Denmark as a punishment, when he proposed the establishment of a widow's and orphan's fund as a first step in preventive poor relief. Hendorff doubted the underlying calculations and advocated an increase in the contribution rates. After a new review, Oeder Hendorff joined, with whom he then jointly took over the management of the widows and orphans' fund in 1779. As chamber director he also played an important role in the reform of the poor system, which was previously mainly supported by the church. In 1784 he became a member of the preparatory commission, as the spokesman for which he wrote the extensive final report that contained the proposals for the reorganization of the poor and recommended the establishment of a savings bank for the socially disadvantaged, following the example of Hamburg . The texts of the two ordinances with which the new poor order and the savings bank were established by Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig in 1786 came from him . The latter formed the cornerstone of what would later become the Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg , one of the oldest still existing savings banks in the world.

Hendorff seems to have been sick more often in the last months of his life and was therefore no longer able to devote himself to his official duties with all his might. Duke Peter I described his death as a "very sensitive loss".

family

Hendorff married Christine Sybille born on October 25, 1779. von Schomburg (1747–1789), daughter of a conference council. His sister Christina Amalia (1740–1804) was the wife of the Oldenburg office director Christian Albrecht Wolters (1716–1799). His younger brother Johann Georg von Hendorff (1744–1800) was a major in the Danish service and, as postmaster, from 1777 ran all of the existing post lines in Oldenburg on his own account. He acquired an extensive collection of paintings, which were auctioned off after his death and partly bought by Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastian Dohe: The Grand Ducal Picture Gallery 1804-1918 . In: Sebastian Dohe / Malve Anna Falk / Rainer Stamm (eds.): Die Gemäldegalerie Oldenburg. A European collection of old masters . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0447-2 , p. 9 .
personal data
SURNAME Hendorff, Friedrich Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henrichs, Friedrich Wilhelm (until 1759)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Oldenburg Chamber Director
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1798
Place of death Oldenburg