Heinrich August Schleiermacher

Heinrich August Schleiermacher (born June 16, 1816 in Darmstadt , † November 22, 1892 there ) was finance minister of the Grand Ducal Hesse .

family

Heinrich August Schleiermacher came from a family of civil servants in Darmstadt. His grandfather Ernst Schleiermacher (1755–1844) was a secret councilor and museum director in Darmstadt . His father, Ludwig Schleiermacher (1785–1844) was a secret senior building officer and succeeded his father as museum director. His mother was Christiane, geb. Mason (1796-1882).

Heinrich August Schleiermacher's first marriage was on September 19, 1847 in Darmstadt, Johanna Philippina Katharina Auguste, née Schenck (born December 18, 1820 in Darmstadt, † August 24, 1859 in Darmstadt), the daughter of the Privy Council and director of the Forest and Domain Directorate Johann Friedrich August Schenck and his wife Jeanette née Pfaltz. On September 2, 1862, he married Auguste Fleischmann (born October 23, 1818 in Offenbach am Main, † October 10, 1902 in Darmstadt), the daughter of the Offenbach factory owner Ferdinand Fleischmann and his wife Wilhelmine nee Pfaltz.

The first marriage had five children:

• Anna Johannette Christiane Brill (* 1848), married on May 15, 1875 in Darmstadt Alexander von Brill (1842–1935), professor of mathematics
• Luise Schleiermacher (1850-1917)
• Wilhelmine Schleiermacher (* 1851), state drawing teacher
• Ludwig Schleiermacher (1855–1927), Dr. phil., professor at Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences
• August Schleiermacher (1857–1953), professor of physics at the TH Karlsruhe

The grandson Ernst Schleiermacher (* 1892) became a professor in Brno in 1941 and a full professor at the TU Istanbul in 1957.

Life

Heinrich August Schleiermacher studied cameral science and architecture in Heidelberg and Gießen from 1833 . After the state examination in construction and finance in 1840, he was def. Accessist at the head office. After traveling to Italy and France from 1840 to 1841, he became an accessist at the Ministry of Finance in Darmstadt in October 1841, where he was Ministerial Secretary in 1844, in 1853 as a secret finance advisor and in 1856 as a ministerial advisor.

In 1873 the Grand Duke appointed him Ministerial Director and Head of the Ministry of Finance (initially with the title of Director and from 1875 with that of the Ministry's President). In 1877 he was appointed to the Real Secret Council. In 1884 he resigned as a minister and went into retirement.

He was president of the trade association of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and from 1854 to 1892 also director of the museum in Darmstadt.

literature

• Eckhart G. Franz : Hessen-Darmstadt 1820–1935. In: Klaus Schwabe (Ed.): The governments of the German medium and small states. 1815–1933 (= German leadership classes in modern times. Volume 14 = Büdinger research on social history. Volume 18). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1983, ISBN 3-7646-1830-2 , p. 302.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 332.
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 765.

Web links

• Schleiermacher, August Heinrich. Hessian biography. (As of November 22, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).