Hans Jakob von Auerswald
Hans Jakob von Auerswald (born July 25, 1757 at Gut Plauth, district of Rosenberg , West Prussia ; † April 3, 1833 in Königsberg , East Prussia ) was President of the Prussian general landscape from 1808 for East Prussia, Lithuania and West Prussia, from 1814 only for East Prussia.
Life
Auerswald came from an old Meißen noble family with the Auerswalde parent house of the same name (today a district of Lichtenau in the Central Saxony district ), which was first mentioned in a document in 1263. His parents were Hans Adolf von Auerswald, landowner and Dutch captain, and his wife Henriette Eleonore von Schwandes , daughter of the ennobled Lieutenant Colonel Moritz Christian von Schwandes .
He joined the Prussian Army in 1770 , attended the University of Königsberg in 1774 and retired from military service in 1783. He started civil service as an assistant to the district administration, in 1787 he became a member of the West Prussian landscape, then landscape director of the Marienwerder Department, in 1797 appointed President of the West Prussian Chamber, in 1802 transferred as President of the East Prussian and Lithuanian Chamber to Königsberg, in 1806 to the Real Secret Upper Finance, War - and Domain Councilor and curator of the University of Königsberg, promoted to Privy Councilor of State and Upper President of East and West Prussia and Lithuania in 1808.
In this position he took an outstanding part in the reforms of the state by Stein and Hardenberg . When the senior presidents' positions were abolished in 1810, Auerswald became president of the East Prussian government and in 1811 received the dignity of court master of the Kingdom of Prussia. In order to promote the uprising of the province, he dared, on Stein's advice, to convene the state parliament in January 1813 without royal approval, which decided to set up the Landwehr and start the liberation struggle. After continuously working for the common good of the country and the prosperity of the University of Königsberg, which was entrusted to its trustees from 1806 to 1819 , he retired from civil service to his Faulen estate in 1824, but moved back to Königsberg in 1832, where he was on 3 Died April, 1833.
family
He married Countess Sophie Charlotte Albertine zu Dohna-Lauck (born April 5, 1760 - † January 9, 1831), a daughter of Count Christoph Belgicus zu Dohna-Lauck (1715–1773). The couple had several children including:
- Alfred (1797–1870) ⚭ Franziska Natalie Frey
- Hans Adolf Erdmann (1792–1848), Prussian general
- Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar (1795–1866) ⚭ Adelheid Countess zu Dohna-Lauck (1795–1859)
- Lydia (1785–1807) ⚭ Chief President Theodor von Schön (1773–1856)
literature
- New necrology of the Germans . Eleventh year, 1933, Weimar 1835, pp. 227–230.
- Heinz Gollwitzer : Auerswald, Hans Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 439 ( digitized version ).
- Rudolf Usinger : Auerswald, Hans Jakob von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 645-650.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Jakob von Auerswald in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Sophie Charlotte Albertine, Countess zu Dohna-Lauck at geneall.net
Carl Wilhelm von Bötticher (1842–1848) | Rudolf von Auerswald (1848–1849) | Eduard von Flottwell (1849–1850) | Franz August Eichmann (1850–1868) | Karl von Horn (1869–1882) | Albrecht von Schlieckmann (1882–1891) | Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1891–1895) | Wilhelm von Bismarck (1895–1901) | Hugo Samuel von Richthofen (1901–1903) | Friedrich von Moltke (1903–1907) | Ludwig von Windheim (1907–1914) | Adolf Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe (1914–1916) | Friedrich von Berg (1916–1918) | Adolf Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe (1918–1919) | August Winnig (1919–1920) | Ernst Siehr (1920–1932) | Wilhelm Kutscher (1932–1933) | Erich Koch (1933–1945)
Theodor von Schön (1815–1824) | Heinrich von Achenbach (1878–1879) | Adolf Ernst von Ernsthausen (1879–1888) | Adolf Hilmar von Leipziger (1888-1891) | Gustav von Goßler (1891–1902) | Clemens von Delbrück (1902–1905) | Ernst von Jagow (1905–1919) | Bernhard Schnackenburg (1919)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Auerswald, Hans Jakob von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian President for East Prussia, Lithuania and West Prussia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1757 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Plauth, district of Rosenberg, West Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1833 |
| Place of death | Koenigsberg , East Prussia |