Georgianum (Calenberger Neustadt)
The Georgianum on Calenberger Strasse in Hanover was a high school for college and officer candidates from the Protestant nobility, inaugurated on October 6, 1797 . She emerged from an educational institute for pages .
The end of the Georgianum is related to the French occupation of Hanover. While Napoléon Bonaparte's brother in the Kingdom of Westphalia , Jérôme Bonaparte , took quarters in Herrenhausen Palace (August 1–16, 1810), Hanover was reorganized politically and militarily. Noble privileges were dismantled, their facilities were converted. The Georgianum was closed on August 14, 1810, and the Leineschloss was converted into barracks.
The most famous students of the former Pagenschule were the later Prussian State Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg and Carl von Alten, who was later elevated to the rank of count due to his substantial participation in the victory at Waterloo .
After leaving Göttingen, Johann Georg Heinrich Feder became director of the Page Institute until it was finally closed in 1811.
literature
- Klaus Mlynek , Dieter Brosius, Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Hanover Chronicle / From the beginnings to the present / Numbers, dates, facts ; Schlütersche , Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-87706-319-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl August von Hardenberg in his autobiographical records , Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv Potsdam, Pr. Br. Rep. 37 Herrschaft Neuhardenberg No. 1621 Bl. 6; after the edition by Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann , p. 87 (1757); No. 1621 Bl. 6 RS, S 89 (1758)
- ↑ Klaus Mlynek: SPRING, Johann Georg Heinrich. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 115; online through google books