Hans von Bülow (politician, 1774)

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Ludwig Friedrich Victor Hans Graf von Bülow, 19th century lithograph

Ludwig Friedrich Victor Hans von Bülow , since 1810/16 Count von Bülow , (born July 14, 1774 in Essenrode , † August 11, 1825 in Landeck in Silesia ) was a Prussian and Westphalian statesman.

origin

Hans Graf von Bülow came from the Mecklenburg nobility of the von Bülow family and was the son of the Lüneburg landscape director Friedrich Ernst von Bülow (1736–1802) and the younger brother of the lawyer and district president Friedrich von Bülow (1762–1827). His cousin was the Prussian reformer and state chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg .

Life

After attending the Knights' Academy of Lüneburg (1774–1791), he studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1791–1794 . After 1794 he entered the Prussian service as a trainee lawyer and in 1805 rose to the position of president of a chamber administration.

Hans Graf von Bülow was the President of the Kurmärkischen War and Domain Chamber in Magdeburg before 1807 . In 1808 he was appointed to the State Council of the Kingdom of Westphalia , which was formed in 1807 by a Napoleonic decree . There he headed the Finance, Trade and Treasure Section. He worked on the establishment of a public budget and the decree establishing the Kingdom's General Amortization Fund . In this capacity he began, on the principle of the free market economy , influenced by the ideas of Adam Smith , the abolition of privileges on all major taxes on consumption in the kingdom, as well as on the taxes on salt and excise .

From May 8, 1808 to 1811, von Bülow succeeded the French legal scholar Jacques Claude Beugnot as Minister of Finance for Westphalia. Bülow's efforts were aimed at the alleviation of the national debt and the organization of the tax system against the background of ongoing demands of the emperor. As a countermeasure to the rapid debt, he carried out the unpopular forced loans of the kingdom. In 1811, during a trip to a meeting with Napoleon in Paris , during which he unsuccessfully sought a reduction in payment obligations from the French domains in the Kingdom of Westphalia, circles at the court of King Jerome carried out a conspiracy against Bülow and drove him out the office. King Karl August appointed Malchus from the Westphalian State Council as his successor . After his release he withdrew to his private property under surveillance by the high police .

When the kingdom finally ceased to exist two years later, von Bülow went into Prussian service. King Friedrich Wilhelm III. appointed him by cabinet order of November 26, 1813 from the headquarters in Frankfurt am Main as the first Prussian finance minister. The order went to the previous head of the financial administration, the "State Chancellor Baron von Hardenberg":

“ At your request and in order to bring you some relief in your business, which is now so much increased, I decided to entrust the Ministry of Finance to a separate minister, and p. von Bülow elected, who last served as President of the Magdeburg Chamber in My Service. "

He then headed the Ministry of Trade and Industry, newly founded in Prussia, in 1818. In 1825 he was for a short time President of the Prussian Province of Silesia .

Hans Graf von Bülow died in 1825 at the age of 51 of sudden cardiac arrest in the Lower Silesian health resort of Landeck in Silesia.

Since July 30, 1804 he was married to Jeanette, née Schmucker (1781–1855) from Berlin. His son Hans Adolf Karl von Bülow later became Prime Minister of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, his son Hans Werner Julius von Bülow (1810–1866) became a member of the Prussian House of Representatives.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrolled in Göttingen from November 8, 1791 to September 29, 1794
  2. ^ Arthur Kleinschmidt : History of the Kingdom of Westphalia , Gotha 1893, p. 94.
  3. ^ Museum landscape Hessen Kassel (ed.): King Lustik !? Jérôme Bonaparte and the model state Kingdom of Westphalia. Hessian state exhibition in the Museum Fridericianum Kassel 19.3. – 29.6.2008, (= catalogs of the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, vol. 39), Munich 2008, p. 388.
  4. ^ Arthur Kleinschmidt: History of the Kingdom of Westphalia . Gotha 1893, p. 95.
  5. ^ Collection of laws for the Royal Prussian States. 1813, p. 129
  6. ^ Museum landscape Hessen Kassel (ed.): King Lustik !? Jérôme Bonaparte and the model state Kingdom of Westphalia. Hessian state exhibition in the Museum Fridericianum Kassel 19.3. – 29.6.2008, (= catalogs of the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, vol. 39), Munich 2008., p. 289.
  7. ^ Baireuther Zeitung Nro. 169 of Aug. 28, 1825, p. 843; on-line
personal data
SURNAME Bülow, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bülow, Ludwig Friedrich Victor Hans von (full name); Bülow, Count of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German statesman
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Essenrode
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1825
Place of death Landeck , Silesia