Georg Karl Wilhelm Philipp from Donop

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Baron Georg Karl Wilhelm Philipp von Donop (born March 18, 1767 in Sonneberg , † August 18, 1845 in Meiningen ) was a German civil servant and historian.

Life

Georg Karl Wilhelm Philipp von Donop, the son of Karl Wilhelm Wolfgang von Donop from Varel (born September 26, 1740 - January 10, 1813 in Sonneberg), was a real privy councilor and chief magistrate of the Meininger Oberland with the offices of Sonneberg , Schalkau and Neuhaus , later court marshal in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen and his wife, born von Tilemann.

After completing his studies, he initially worked as a page in the service of the Count's House of Reuss-Köstritz . In 1785 he entered the service of the Meiningen ducal house under Duke Georg I , where he was appointed court junker and later chamberlain . In 1791 he was appointed accessist to the state government , on January 25, 1792 as a government assessor and in 1797 as a councilor. In 1798 he belonged to the highway construction commission until it was dissolved in 1823 and was also represented as a member of the war commission in the decisive years from 1807–1816.

In 1809 he was appointed Privy Councilor and in 1816 Vice Chancellor and in 1821 Privy Councilor and Chancellor and thus successor to Karl Konstantin von Künßberg (1756-1821). On November 25, 1823, the organization of the central authorities was reorganized and from the staff of the old government college only a part of the government councils was transferred to the new state government, the rest was transferred to the higher regional court. The head of the previous government, Chancellor Georg Karl Wilhelm von Donop, was also put in charge of the new state government, but was now given the title of district president .

Ruinous residential tower built by Donop on the Donopskuppe

Since November 1826, the Secret Department turned from the Minister of State Christian Ferdinand of Könitz , the Privy Councils Carl Ludwig Friedrich August von Baumbach (1772-1844), Georg Karl Wilhelm Philipp von Donop and Dietrich von Stein and the Councilor Charles of fishermen together . From 1827 to 1829 he withdrew more and more until he retired, his successor was Friedrich Krafft , who came from the Hessian service .

In 1822, in the southeast of the town of Meiningen , he had an artificial neo-Gothic castle ruin built on the Landwehrberg, now called Donopskuppe.

Outside of his official activities, he dealt extensively with historical, numismatic and linguistic studies. When a piece of the cliff broke off near Trinity on Jersey in 1820 , a hoard of 982 coins was uncovered, mostly staters of the Coriosolites . The entire hoard was bought by Georg Karl Wilhelm Philipp von Donop, who depicted 760 of these coins in a book that he dedicated to Queen Adelaide , the wife of King Wilhelm IV of England .

In 1842 he took a trip from England to Mexico with a society for the investigation of the local antiquities . Through his marriage he became the son-in-law of Chancellor Johann Karl August von Uttenhoven (1746–1808), and no children were born from the marriage.

The Donopstraße leading to the mountain and through a residential area is named after Georg Karl Wilhelm Philipp von Donop.

Trivia

His father was the illegitimate son of Charlotte Sophie Bentinck . He inherited her extensive coin collection from her. His father was named "Donop" with the express permission of the Clamor von Donop, a captain in the Oldenburg infantry .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Louise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched, Charlotte Sophie Bentinck-Von Aldenburg, Johann Christoph Gottsched: Adieu Divine Comtesse . Königshausen & Neumann, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-4098-6 , p. 11 ( limited preview in Google Book search).