Hans von Thümmel

Julius Hans von Thümmel (born May 25, 1824 in Gotha ; † February 12, 1895 in Dresden ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official in the Kingdom of Saxony. He was finance minister and chairman of the entire ministry.

Life

Thümmel was the son of Oberforstmeister Ernst von Thümmel († 1838) and grandson of Minister Hans Wilhelm von Thümmel . He enrolled at the University of Jena for law and became active in the Corps Franconia Jena in 1845 . As an inactive , he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Universität Leipzig . With Konstantin von Wangenheim he was reciprocated on June 29, 1847 by the CC of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig as an honorary member of the old kind . After successfully completing his studies, he joined the Saxon State Justice Service. In 1859 he was appointed lecturer council and department director in the Ministry of Finance. In this role he was involved in negotiating and signing trade and customs contracts in the 1860s. With the title of Privy Finance Council , he was from 1867 authorized representative of the Kingdom of Saxony to the Federal Council of the North German Confederation . On March 17, 1890, he was appointed Saxon Finance Minister as the successor to Léonçe von Könneritz . With effect from January 1, 1892, he also succeeded the deceased Chairman of the General Ministry Karl von Gerber . He held both offices until his death in February 1895. He was buried in the cemetery in Nöbdenitz .

Honors

Monument in the Dresdner Heide

Royal Crown Order (Prussia) 2nd class (1863)
Commander of the Franz Joseph Order (1863)
Red Eagle Order II Class with Star (1865)
Reussian Cross of Honor 1st Class (1878)
Grand Cross of the Order of Albrecht (1884)
Order of the Iron Crown (Austria) (1885)
Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (Saxony)

literature

Friedrich Stahler : The album of Hans von Thümmel Franconiae Jena, Lusatiae Leipzig. A silhouette logbook 1844–1848. Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, Vol. 22 (1977), pp. 191-206.

Web links

Commons : Hans von Thümmel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Hans von Thümmel in the Stadtwiki Dresden

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Kösener corps lists 1910, 124/248; 149/367
↑ Todtenschau. Dresdner Geschichtsblätter, No. 3 (1895), p. 220.

personal data
SURNAME	Thümmel, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thümmel, Julius Hans von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German administrative lawyer and ministerial official, finance minister and prime minister in the Kingdom of Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gotha
DATE OF DEATH	February 12, 1895
Place of death	Dresden

[KKL-1] Kösener corps lists 1910, 124/248; 149/367

[2] Todtenschau. Dresdner Geschichtsblätter, No. 3 (1895), p. 220.