Friedrich von Bechtold

Friedrich Georg Gustav Bechtold , from 1829 von Bechtold , (born March 25, 1800 in Darmstadt ; † August 14, 1872 ibid) was a German lawyer and politician .

family

Friedrich Bechtold was the third son of the Hessian lieutenant colonel and chief of the general staff Johann Philipp Karl von Bechtold (1762-1809 (killed in the battle of Wagram )) and his wife Caroline nee Jäckel (1765-1823). His brother Carl von Bechtold became a Hessian general, his brother Christian von Bechtold became a colonel. The family was raised to the grand ducal Hessian nobility on February 17, 1829 and then bore the name of Bechtold. Friedrich von Bechtold, who was a Protestant denomination, married Charlotte Harriet born Engelbach on October 1, 1829 in Worms (* October 5, 1799 in London; † December 27, 1865 in Darmstadt), the daughter of the Royal British Chamber of Accounts inspector Ludwig Engelbach and his wife Harriot Trueman. The marriage had four children:

• Friedrich (1830-1834)
• Caroline (1831-1890). She was baptized Protestant, later converted to Catholicism and called herself Ellen von Bechthold.
• Wilhelm Christian Franz Alfred (* 1833)
• Hermann (1836–1902), district councilor, privy councilor

Life

Bechtold studied in Giessen , where he became a member of the Corps Hassia Giessen in 1816, a member of the Christian-German fraternity / honorary fraternity in 1817 and of the general fraternity of Germania in 1818 ; he was also a member of the Heidelberg fraternity.

Bechtold then entered the civil service of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. He became a member of the government on March 7, 1822 and was promoted to third secretary in the Grand Ducal Government in Darmstadt on April 7, 1826. On October 30, 1828, he became Ministerial Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . On August 30, 1832, he became a Controlling Officer with the title of Councilor. On April 4, 1835, he acted as Landtag commissioner and was promoted to Ministerial Council on October 18, 1836. On November 15, 1844, he was a member of the briefing commission for the 2nd Chamber of the Hessian state parliament. From 1846 to 1871 he was President of the Agricultural Association for the Starkenburg Province, at the head of the Central Office for Agriculture and the Agricultural Associations.

The March Revolution initially ended his career. On March 14, 1848, he was retired until further notice. In the reaction era , he was able to resume his career. On July 1, 1850, he was Ministerialrat in the Ministry of the Interior. In 1851 and 1852 he was an extraordinary member of the State Council. On May 25, 1852, he was promoted to the Privy Council of State . Since April 16, 1855 he was director of the examination commission for the judiciary and government subject and since January 25, 1856 government commissioner for the supervision of the management of the bank for southern Germany in Darmstadt. On December 22, 1866 he lost the supervision of the bank for southern Germany and was appointed government commissioner at the bank for trade and industry .

On December 5, 1859, the Grand Duke appointed him a lifelong member of the 1st Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . He was a member of the Chamber from 1859 to 1872.

From 1871 to 1872 he was Grand Ducal Hessian Minister of the Interior (with the title "President of the Ministry of the Interior") in Darmstadt.

Honors

• January 11, 1841: Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous
• June 29, 1847: Commander's Cross II. Class of the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous
• June 14, 1853: Commander's Cross, 2nd class of the Ludewig Order
• December 26, 1858: Commander's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous
• January 25, 1860: Commander's Cross with the star of the Spanish Order of Charles III.
• December 28, 1864: Commander's Cross 1st class of the Württemberg Order of Frederick
• June 21, 1865: Commander's Cross 1st Class of the Baden Order of the Zähringer Löwen
• August 25, 1864: Commander's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Ludewig
• August 25, 1867 Real Privy Councilor, Your Excellency
• February 7, 1870: Grand Cross of the Bavarian Order of Merit of St. Michael
• March 7, 1872: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous
• March 25, 1872 Dr. jur. hc by the University of Giessen

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 55–56.
• 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. 66.
• Klaus Schwabe (Hrsg.): The governments of the German medium and small states. 1815–1933 (= German leadership classes in modern times. Volume 14 = Büdinger research on social history. Volume 18). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1983, ISBN 3-7646-1830-2 , p. 295.
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , pp. 146–147.

Web links

• Bechtold, Friedrich Georg von in the Hessian biography
• Article Bechtold, Friedrich von. on the website engelbach-wwr.de
• Article Bechtold, Friedrich von. on the website www.frankfurter-verbindungen.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - Die Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, D. Allgemeine Burschenschaft Germania. No. 49.