Gustav Adolf Ferdinand Heinrich Leo

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Gustav Adolf Ferdinand Heinrich Leo (born November 4, 1779 in Schwetz , † April 17, 1840 in Posen ) was a Prussian civil servant .

Life

family

Gustav Adolf Ferdinand Heinrich Leo was a son of the judicial officer in Schwetz Julius Gottfried Ephraim Leo (* 1750; † September 12, 1807) and his wife Constanze Elisabeth Leo, née Bellowska.

In October 1804 Leo married the widowed Caroline Amalie von Sanden, the second daughter of the late Königsberg domain official Frey zu Kalthof. They had two daughters together:

In his second marriage he was with the widowed Pelagia Julia Barbara Auguste Dunin von Przychowski (née Countess von Prebendow-Przebendowska ) (born October 4, 1800 in Hochredlau ; † November 27, 1865 in Berlin ), daughter of Count Clemens August Anton von Prebendow -Przebendowski (1748-1808). From the marriage the son Witold Ottocar (born June 16, 1835 in Posen, † August 31, 1878 in Berlin) would emerge, who became captain and sub-director of the Cologne Life Insurance Company. His second wife brought two more daughters into the marriage:

  • Jeanette Ludewika Marie Schirmer (née Dunin von Przychowska) (* 1821; † unknown)
  • Marie Kretschmer (née Dunin von Przychowska) (born August 29, 1823 in Danzig ; † unknown)

Career

After the early death of his mother, Leo came into the family of his uncle Johann Adam Leo, who was employed as a civil servant in the East Prussian Domain Office (office that administers state property) in Schaacken ( Königsberg administrative region) . He stayed in Schaacken until he was 12 years old and then came back to his father, who had meanwhile been transferred to Königsberg. There he attended the castle school from 1790 . In March 1797 he began studying at the University of Königsberg and studied law and camera science for three years . He attended lectures on logic , metaphysics , pandects , natural law , statistics , state economy , finance and police science . The lectures were given by Christian Jakob Kraus , Karl Ludwig Pörschke and Theodor Schmalz , among others . After graduating, he went to the Schaacken domain office for a year.

In 1801 his application to the War and Domain Chamber in Königsberg was rejected because he did not pass the exam there. Only after passing the repeat examination was he employed as a trainee lawyer in May 1802 . He successfully passed the Grand Examination on May 19, 1804 and therefore had a seat on the Council of the War and Domain Chamber in Plock as an assessor from June 27, 1804 ; on February 24, 1805 he received the patent as a war and domain councilor.

In 1807 Emperor Napoléon established a Polish rump and satellite state with the Duchy of Warsaw , to which the town of Plock also belonged. For this reason Leo interrupted his activity because he did not want to serve in foreign services, so he left Plock and went to Graudenz and tried to get a job in the War and Domain Chamber in Marienwerder . The President of the War and Domain Chamber, Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten , promoted him, but it was not until 1809 that he was employed in the government college as a domain department council in the state economics college in Königsberg.

In 1812 he was initially a Prussian civil commissioner in the French and later in the Russian army. He gathered volunteers and assigned them to the York Army Corps , which was involved in the Prussian campaign . During this time he asked for permission as a volunteer fighter in the war to be allowed against the French draw and received them by the royal Cabinet Order of 24 March 1813. He then resigned as chief hunter in the Jägerdetachement of Litthauischen Dragoons Regiment and was on 13 June 1813 appointed Premier Lieutenant. In 1814 Leo received the Iron Cross 2nd class for his work .

After the war he voluntarily left military service and in 1813 was authorized to wear the army uniform without a badge. In December 1814 the king appointed him director of the royal government in Gumbinnen . In 1826 he asked for a transfer to the government in Danzig. In 1830 he directed and organized extensive aid and rescue measures when the flood-carrying Vistula caused severe damage to the surrounding area due to dike breaches . The city of Danzig granted him honorary citizenship in the same year .

In 1833 he was appointed Vice President of the royal government in Poznan and in 1836 with the Order of the Red Eagle III. Excellent with a bow. In 1839 he was promoted to the position of the Secret Upper Government Council .

Freemasons

In 1791 he became a member of the Königsberg Masonic Lodge .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt : New Nekrolog der Deutschen . Publisher by Bernhard Friedrich Voigt , Weimar 1842, p. 442.
  2. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 568 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Widow of Christian Konrad von Sanden (1743–1800), cf .: Handbook of Prussian Adels, Volume 1, 1892, p.508
personal data
SURNAME Leo, Gustav Adolf Ferdinand Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leo, Gustav Adolph Ferdinand Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwetz
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1840
Place of death Poses