Gustav Adolf von Tzschoppe

Gustav Adolf Tzschoppe , from 1836 von Tzschoppe , (born August 22, 1794 in Görlitz , † September 16, 1842 in Berlin ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer . From 1833 until his death he was director of the Secret State Archives .

Gustav Adolf von Tzschoppe (1833)

Life

Tzschoppe attended the Augustum-Annen-Gymnasium . After matriculation examination enrolled him in 1812 at the University of Leipzig for jurisprudence . In the same year he became a member of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig . In 1815 he moved to the new Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau , where he took the exam.

He entered the civil service of the Kingdom of Prussia . As a Councilor in the office of the chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg , he gained his trust and accompanied him on several trips abroad. His duties in the State Chancellery varied in nature. As a member of the commission against demagogic activities, he pursued supposed student rebels and, on the other hand, took care of the reorganization of the Prussian archives .

In 1833 he was appointed director of the Secret State Archives and head of the Prussian archive administration as the successor to the late Karl Georg von Raumer . At the intercession of his princely patron Wilhelm zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein , he was raised to the Prussian nobility in 1836 .

Gustav Adolf von Tzschoppe died, not yet 50 years old, in Berlin in 1842. He was buried in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . The grave is preserved.

literature

Hermann von Petersdorff : Tzschoppe, Gustav Adolf (v.) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 66-68.
Egbert Weiß : Corps students in the pre-March period, “persecuted” and “persecutors” . In: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 33 (1988), pp. 47, 60.

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 3 , 54.
^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 236.

personal data
SURNAME	Tzschoppe, Gustav Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tzschoppe, Gustav A. von; Tzschoppe, Gustav Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 22, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH	September 16, 1842
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 3 , 54.

[2] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 236.