Heinrich August Meyer

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Meyer's signature as prefect in 1810

Heinrich August Meyer (born March 8, 1773 in Bockelskamp near Celle , † November 1, 1836 in Bleckede ) was a royal Hanoverian and Westphalian administrative officer.

Meyer was born in 1773 as the son of Hedwig, b. von Wersebe (November 21, 1748 - July 31, 1821) and Heinrich August Meyer (October 10, 1737 - May 12, 1799) were born in Bockelskamp. After studying law , he entered the Hanoverian civil service. He was the clerk at the Beedenbostel office until 1809 , when in 1807 the south of the Electorate of Hanover fell to the Kingdom of Westphalia as a result of the final provisions of the Tilsit Peace Treaty .

From 1809 to 1810 Meyer went to the Kingdom of Westphalia as the police director of the newly established Hanover Police Department , to which Hanover was incorporated as the ninth department in 1810. After the north of Hanover had also fallen to Westphalia in 1810, Meyer made a trip by the Westphalian king Jerome Napoleon through northern Germany as a travel marshal. After this trip, the king appointed him prefect of the newly founded department of the Elbe and Weser estuaries based in Stade . The department only existed until December 31, 1810. Then the area came under the French Empire , where the department was dissolved.

After the end of Napoleonic rule in the German states Meyer 1814-1820 bailiff of Amtsvogtei Beedenbostel become and after 1820 a steward in the office Bleckede , where he remained until his death 1836th

Private life

Meyer married Henriette Wilhelmine Büchting (born around 1793) in 1809. The two had six children:

  • Adolf, (March 11, 1810 - May 7, 1877)
  • Karl August, (June 2, 1820 - December 15, 1899),
  • Auguste , (November 30, 1827 - April 25, 1908), who as a writer, A. von der Elbe 'became known
  • Emilie, (June 14, 1829 - April 12, 1861)
  • Henriette, (December 2, 1822 - February 19, 1823)
  • Ferdinand, (August 25, 1825 - January 20, 1826)

In 1821 Meyer received the Guelph Order .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c http://www.online-ofb.de/famreport.php?ofb=wienhausen&ID=I70975
  2. ↑ Annual report on the Royal Monastery School at Ilfeld from Easter 1877 - Easter 1878, C. Kirchner, Nordhausen 1878, page 24
  3. ↑ Johann von Horn: The Guelph order of the Kingdom of Hanover according to its constitution and history. Hinrich, Leipzig 1823, page 527.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Heinrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Hanoverian and Westphalian administrative officials
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Bockelskamp near Celle
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1836
Place of death Bleckede