Gerhard Heinrich von Motz
Gerhard Heinrich von Motz (born December 4, 1776 in Hanau ; † September 3, 1868 at Gut Bodenhausen near Ehlen (Habichtswald) ) was the Hessian finance, justice and foreign minister.
family
Gerhard Heinrich von Motz was the son of Friedrich Ludwig Motz, President of the Rentkammer in Hanau, who, together with his siblings, was raised to the imperial nobility in 1780 . The family owned goods in and near Bodenhausen , Calden , Kalenberg near Ehlen , Hundelshausen , Oberurff , Ropperode and Zierenberg . Motz was a cousin of the Prussian finance minister, senior president and district president Friedrich Christian Adolf von Motz (1775-1830). Since 1805 Gerhard Heinrich von Motz was married to Amalie von Alten (1782–1822), after her death in 1823 he married Elisabeth Luise Octavie von Stockum-Sternfels (1800–1868), the sister of the Bavarian Major General Alphons von Stockum-Sternfels .
career
Motz studied 1794 jurisprudence at the University of Marburg . From 1798 he was assessor with the government in Hanau and at the same time a member of the court court (from 1803: court and marriage court, from 1823: higher court); from 1814 to 1831 he was its director. This activity was interrupted for a few months in the summer of 1821, when he was the lecturer Ministerialrat der Justice in the State Ministry - which functionally corresponded to a Minister of Justice until the Hessian constitution of 1831 . During this time, immediately after the death of Elector Wilhelm I , he worked on the fundamental administrative reform ("Organizational Edict") of 1821 for the Electorate, which the new sovereign, Wilhelm II , tackled immediately after his accession to the throne.
1803/1804 Gerhard Heinrich von Motz was also assessor, later judicial councilor of the consistory in Hanau, 1814–1821 member of the lending bank management in Hanau and 1819–1825 envoy to the Free City of Frankfurt . From 1823 he was an honorary member of the state drawing academy in Hanau.
In 1831 Motz was appointed finance minister of the electoral state by the electoral prince and co-regent Friedrich Wilhelm , in 1834 as minister of justice for a few months, and in 1836 and 1839 as foreign minister for a few months. As finance minister he was responsible for negotiations with Prussia about the conclusion of a customs agreement and even threatened the elector with his resignation if he refused. The treaty was signed on August 25, 1831 and came into force on January 1, 1832.
Motz retired at his own request in 1848.
literature
- Ewald Grothe / Hellmut Seier (arrangement): Files and letters from the beginning of the Hessian constitutional period 1830–1837 . Edited by Hellmut Seier, Elwert, Marburg 1992.
- Hans-Werner Hahn : Motz, Gerhard Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 230 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Harald Höffner: Kurhessens Ministerialvorstand the constitutional period 1831-1866 . Dissertation. Giessen 1981, p. 230 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gut Bodenhausen, district of Kassel. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ^ Letter to the Elector, May 31, 1831, in: Grothe / Seier, Akten und Briefe , pp. 147–150.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Motz, Gerhard Heinrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Minister of Finance of Hesse |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1776 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanau |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 3, 1868 |
| Place of death | Bodenhausen |