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Georg Charlotte von Hinüber (also: George Charlotte Hinüber ; * 1764 in London ; † 1828 in Hanover ) was a German general postal director , cabinet and privy councilor , major , diplomat , chancellery auditor and art historian .

Life

The von Hinüber family belonged to the so-called pretty families in the 18th and 19th centuries . Georg Charlotte von Hinüber came from the Wildeshäuser line of those von Hinüber. He was the son of Carl Heinrich von Hinüber (1723–1792), who from 1760 worked as a real secret secretary at the German Chancellery in London, later as a secret councilor. Georg Charlotte received his unusual first name from his two godparents , King George III. of Great Britain and Ireland , Elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , and his wife, Queen Charlotte .

Tomb in the garden cemetery

On October 26, 1781 , von Hinüber enrolled for law studies at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and in the summer semester of 1782 he became a student of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . During this time he lived in Jüdenstrasse with the Obercommissarius Friedrichs, from the summer semester 1784 with Madame Friedrichs.

In 1785 von Hinüber received the position of auditor in the judicial office in Hanover, but in the following year 1785 he moved to Mainz , as legation secretary at the Hanoverian embassy opposite the Kurmainzischen and Kurtrierchen courtyards. In 1790 he was promoted to legation councilor and later became envoy and plenipotentiary minister at the Dutch court in The Hague and diplomat at the imperial court in Vienna .

Back in Hanover, von Hinüber first became director of the local archive and was soon given titles and positions as secret cabinet advisor, senior post director and head of the general post office in Hanover.

Von Hinüber was in an extensive, traditional correspondence .

Georg Charlotte von Hinüber was not married. He was buried in the garden cemetery, where his listed tomb can still be found today .

literature

• Hans-Joachim Heerde: Over, Georg Charlotte von (1764-1828). In: The audience of physics. Lichtenbergs Hörer , in the series Lichtenberg Studies , Volume 14, Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0015-6 , pp. 301f., Online via Google books
• The archive. Magazine for Communication History , ed. by the German Society for Post and Telecommunication History in cooperation with the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication, issues 1–4, 2008, p. 78, online as a snippet

Web links

• Historical summary on the "website of the v. Hinüber'schen family association "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Brief historical description (see web links)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Authority data entry (GND 101476493 ) of the German National Library . Query date: December 12, 2016.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Hans-Joachim Heerde: Hinüber, Georg Charlotte von ... (see literature)
4. ↑ ^{a b c} State capital Hanover: The garden cemetery , free brochure from the green space office Hanover in cooperation with the press office Hanover, December 1997, p. 22
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5. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Pretty families. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 310.
6. ^ Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring: Correspondence: November 1792 - April 1805 , ed. and done by Franz Dumont, in the series Works / Samuel Thomas Soemmerring , founded by Gunter Mann, ed. by Jost Benedum and Werner Friedrich Kümmel, Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, Volume 20, Verlag Schwabe & Co., 2001, ISBN 3-7965-1738-2 , passim , online via Google books
7. ↑ Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: garden church and garden cemetery. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, [Bd.] 10.1 , ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 65f., As well as Annex Mitte. In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 3f.