Gustav von Bonin

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Gustav Carl Giesbert Heinrich Wilhelm Gebhard von Bonin (born November 23, 1797 in Heeren , † December 2, 1878 in Berlin ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer and politician .

family

He came from an old aristocratic family from the Pomerania with the same ancestral home south of Köslin , which was first mentioned in a document in 1294. His father was Gustav von Bonin (1773–1837) and his brother the Prussian infantry general Adolf von Bonin (1803–1872).

Bonin married on June 18, 1832 in Magdeburg Maria Keller (1814-1849), daughter of the Magdeburg businessman Ferdinand Keller and Johanna Kohlbach. Sons from this marriage are the Saxon-Coburg-Gotha Minister of State Gisbert von Bonin (1841–1913) and the Prussian Major General Gustav Bogislav von Bonin (1843–1905). He also had three daughters, including:

  • Frida (1839–1891) ⚭ Ferdinand Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Esebeck (1833–1893), son of the later Prussian Lieutenant General Karl August von Esebeck
  • Anna Friederike Wilhelmine (1848–1936) ⚭ 1898 Benno von Zedlitz-Neukirch (1821–1903), Major a. D., son of Otto von Zedlitz and Neukirch

Life

Bonin studied at the universities of Jena , Berlin and Göttingen . Since 1813 he was a member of the Corps Saxonia Jena I. In the administrative service of the Crown of Prussia , he became the district president of the administrative district of Magdeburg and the administrative district of Cologne . In 1845 he became President of the Province of Saxony . In this position he knew how to keep the extreme parties to the right and left in check with great moderation. After joining the Pfuel Ministry as Finance Minister in September 1848 , he emerged with a measured attitude in the parliamentary negotiations.

Released from the ministry, he returned to his previous office in the province of Saxony. There, as well as later in the Prussian mansion , he supported the policy of the Brandenburg Ministry . Appointed President of the Province of Poznan in 1850 , he focused his efforts primarily on the reconciliation of the long warring nationalities. In May 1851 he had to resign because he did not want to participate in the restoration of the county and provincial estates. In 1859 he resumed his previous position as President of the Province of Posen under the Schwerin Ministry .

During the uprising in Russian Poland, he gave up this office again. He did not want to take part in the repressive measures that the Bismarck Ministry considered necessary. Since then he has lived on his manor Brettin near Genthin , which he had owned since 1834. He was an old liberal member of the Prussian House of Representatives and the Reichstag , of which he was the age president . He was chamberlain and real. Privy councilor .

In addition to Gut Brettin (from 1834) he was landlord on Elvershagen and Tauenzin (1835–1842).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tullner: Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon. P. 80.
  2. Hans BranigBonin, Gustav von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 447 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 127 , 119.