Hans Ernst Bütemeister

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Hans Ernst Bütemeister (born August 24, 1750 in Wulften , † April 10, 1837 in Diepholz ) was a German civil servant.

Life

Hans Ernst Bütemeister was born as the son of the preacher Johann Friedrich Bütemeister (* July 23, 1712 in Sudershausen ; † May 6, 1753 in Wulften), who previously worked as a tutor for the Hardenberg family and died a few years after the birth of his son and his son Wife Anna Catharina Dorothea (born August 17, 1724 in Westerhof ; † unknown), a daughter of Heinrich Hattorf. After his father's death, his mother moved to Nörten into the house of her brother-in-law Johann Daniel Bütemeister, who worked as a preacher in Bühle , and initially trained him. His sister was:

  • Eleonore (* unknown; † 1804), married to the bailiff and writer Johann August Weppen (1741-1812) from Wickershausen.

In 1766 he came to the Latin School in Zellerfeld under the rectorate of Professor Christian Heinrich Georg Rettberg (1736–1806). On April 17, 1769 he began to study law at the University of Göttingen and attended lectures by Heinrich Christian von Selchow , Johann Friedrich Eberhard Böhmer , Johann Stephan Pütter , August Ludwig von Schlözer , Johann Beckmann , Johann Heinrich Ayrer and Samuel Christian Hollmann . During his studies he also made friends with the later poet Ludwig Hölty , who introduced him to the society of the Göttingen Hainbund . After his studies, which he successfully completed in 1774, he was employed as an auditor in the office of Brunstein , where he earned the goodwill of the first official, Reichshofrat Conrad Heinrich von Hugo (1717-1796).

In 1779 he was appointed titular clerk in Brunstein and in 1780 supernumerary clerk (candidate for civil servants) for the Uslar office . In 1783 he came to the office of Celle in the same position and was appointed there in addition to the court grain clerk (person who kept records for a landlord about the income and expenditure of grain in the landlord's stores) and prison superintendent ad interim ; Here he also began to study the French and Italian languages.

In 1786 he was transferred as a second official to the Hoya office and in 1792 to the Diepholz office , where he was appointed official in 1797 . In the period from 1803 to 1813 Diepholz, in whose district 20,000 people lived, was occupied by the French and the generals Adolphe Édouard Casimir Joseph Mortier , Louis-Alexandre Berthier and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte - just like Field Marshal Count Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden - Gimborn stayed with him. The original county of Diepholz initially became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia and later a province of the French Empire; This led to the fact that Hans Ernst Bütemeister lost all his offices in 1810, but was appointed a Westphalian mayor without salary, this corresponded to the Napoleonic principle, according to which civil servants received honor instead of money. In 1811 he became imperial mayor and in 1812 percepteur (tax officer) without a salary. Shortly before the end of French rule, he resigned all of his offices, including his Mayor offices. Only after the end of the French period did he take up his post as bailiff again. On April 20, 1818, he became a bailiff appointed and celebrated in 1822 his thirty years of his career as an official in Diepholz and in 1824 its fiftieth anniversary with.

Hans Ernst Bütemeister was married to Friedericke Luise, a daughter of the bailiff Lodemann (1708–1783) from Oldenstadt, since July 18, 1786. Together they had six daughters, of whom we know by name:

  • Charlotte Friederica Bütemeister (born June 8, 1806 in Diepholz; † September 28, 1850 in Fürstenau ), married to Carl Egbert Franzius (born February 8, 1798 in Aurich ; † January 3, 1884 in Osnabrück ), chief magistrate in Wittmund , later in Fürstenau; their children were among others the hydraulic engineer Ludwig Franzius and the engineer Georg Franzius .

Freemasons

Hans Ernst Bütemeister was proposed to be a Freemason in 1782 and accepted as Minerval ("pupil of Minerva", novice) in June 1784 through ritual consecration by Heinrich Ludwig von Pape (1725–1803) in Celle. His religious name was Diogenes Laertius.

Awards

  • Hans Ernst Bütemeister was knighted as a knight of the Guelph Order and at the same time he received the honorary diploma as a doctor of law from the University of Göttingen.
  • On August 24, 1824, the city of Diepholz made him its first honorary citizen .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annals of the Braunschweig Luneburgischen Churlande . 1787, p. 197 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME But master, Hans Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Bulging
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1837
Place of death Diepholz