Günther von Berg

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Günther von Berg

Günther Heinrich Freiherr von Berg (born November 27, 1765 in Schwaigern near Heilbronn , † September 9, 1843 in Oldenburg ) was a German politician in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.

Family and nobility rise

The line of his family begins with Veit vom Berg ( Vitus de Monte ) (1541–1610), pastor in Rüdisbronn (now part of Bad Windsheim ) in Middle Franconia . In the 18th century, the non-aristocratic family changed their name from Berg to von Berg on their own initiative .

Berg was elevated to the status of Austrian baron on June 19, 1838 in Schönbrunn Palace with a letter of nobility dated August 29, 1838 in Vienna , as a privy councilor from the Grand Ducal Oldenburg , member of the State and Cabinet Ministry and as the commander of the Order of St. Stephen . The Oldenburg recognition followed on December 7, 1838.

Life

Berg came from a family of craftsmen and officials. He was the son of the Imperial Countess - Neippergischen bailiff Friedrich Christoph von Berg (1733–1807) and Maria Veronika geb. Hummel (1741-1797). After attending grammar school in Öhringen , he studied law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen from 1783 to 1786 and then completed a six-month internship at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar , where he received important impulses for his later academic work.

In May 1787 he became secretary to Count Leopold von Neipperg. On several trips to Vienna he got to know the practice of the local imperial court. During these years he also published his first scientific work. In 1792 he went to Göttingen to complete a major investigation into the Imperial Court of Justice. With the support of the well-known constitutional law teacher Johann Stephan Pütter , Berg received an extraordinary professorship from 1794 along with an advisor in the Göttingen judging panel. Later he also received his doctorate in Tübingen . Berg, who was a quick worker of great creativity, published a series of thorough studies during these years and also edited two magazines.

Hanover

In October 1800 he entered the civil service of the Electorate of Hanover and became a councilor at the Hanover Justice Chancellery and legal advisor to the government's advocatus patriae . Among other things, he took part in the seizure and secularization of the Principality of Osnabrück and dealt with the question of the reorganization of the authorities. In addition, he found time for a number of legal and political studies, of which the multi-volume manual of the German police law should be mentioned, which is probably his most important work. After Hanover was incorporated into the Kingdom of Westphalia , Berg entered the service of Prince Georg Wilhelm von Schaumburg-Lippe in Bückeburg , for whom he had previously worked as a part-time legal advisor. On March 27, 1810 he was appointed president of the government college of this miniature state, whose administration he modernized in the following years. In August 1814, Berg participated in the Congress of Vienna as envoy of the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe and Waldeck , where he played an influential role as one of the representatives of the small German states and helped shape the final draft of the German Federal Act . In June 1815 he returned to Bückeburg and carried out the decisive preparatory work for the introduction of the constitutional constitution , which came into force in 1816.

Oldenburg

From Berg`sches Haus in Oldenburg, traffic jam 29

In 1815 Berg entered the civil service of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . On October 14, 1815, he was appointed President of the Oldenburg Higher Appeal Court , but released from his official duties and appointed envoy to the Bundestag of the German Confederation in the Free City of Frankfurt . In 1819/20 he took part in the conferences of the Vienna Final Act as a representative of Oldenburg . In June 1821 he was recalled from Frankfurt and took up the post of President of the Higher Appeal Court in Oldenburg in August, which he held until December 1829. At the same time he was appointed on July 23, 1821 with the title of Privy Council as the second member of the newly formed State and Cabinet Ministry. This activity as de facto minister again took up most of his labor. In the following years he was responsible for a number of very different areas, such as for the relationship with the German Confederation and the other federal states, for general financial and sovereign matters and for domain administration. In addition, he influenced the regulation of Catholic church affairs and pursued an emphatically state church course. Between 1830 and 1832 he was also responsible for the internal preparatory work for a state constitution. In addition to his own elaboration, he drafted the final draft of a Basic Law, which, however, was later put on file by order of the Grand Duke after the revolutionary movement had subsided. In 1834, Berg took part in the Vienna Ministerial Conferences as the Oldenburg representative . After the departure of Baron Karl Ludwig von Brandenstein , Berg was finally appointed first member of the Ministry and Minister of State and Cabinet on July 1, 1842. In the following year, however, he died of esophageal cancer .

As a close collaborator of Duke Peter I and Grand Duke August I , Berg played an important role in the administration of the country. He began his career as an enlightened reform conservative, but at the latest when he entered the Oldenburg civil service, he changed to a status quo conservative who limited himself to safeguarding the existing out of conviction or resignation.

family

Berg was married to Sophie Caroline Amalie born on August 23, 1795 . Stromeyer (1777–1868), daughter of the Göttingen medical professor Ernst Johann Friedrich Stromeyer (1750–1830) and his wife Marie Magdalena Johanne von Blum (1756–1848). The couple had five sons and five daughters, including:

Works

  • Attempt on the relationship between morality and politics. 2 volumes. Heilbronn. 1790 and 1791.
  • Representation of the visitation of the Imperial and Reich Chamber Court according to law and tradition. Goettingen. 1784.
  • About Teutschland's constitution and the maintenance of public calm in Teutschland. Goettingen. 1795.
  • Political experiments. 2 volumes. Lübeck and Leipzig. 1795.
  • Outline of the imperial court constitution and practice. Goettingen. 1797.
  • Handbook of German Police Law. 7 volumes. Hanover. 1799-1809.
  • Legal observations and legal cases. 4 volumes. Hanover. 1802-1810.
  • Treatises and explanations of the Rhenish federal act. Hanover. 1808.
  • Comparative description of the organization of the French state administration in relation to the Kingdom of Westphalia and other German states. Frankfurt. 1808.
  • Reflections on restoring political equilibrium in Europe. Without location information. 1814.
  • Georg Ludwig, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. Published in Oldenburgische Blätter. 1830, p. 257 ff.

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predecessor Office successor
- Oldenburg envoy to the German Confederation from
1816 to 1821 		Hartwig Julius Ludwig von Both
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Günther von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berg, Günther Heinrich Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwaigern near Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1843
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)