Heinrich Christian von Ulmenstein

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Heinrich Johann Anton Christian Freiherr von Ulmenstein (born November 27, 1777 in Wetzlar , † January 28, 1840 in Pempelfort near Düsseldorf ) was a German lawyer and civil servant.

Life

Heinrich Christian von Ulmenstein was the son of the assessor at the Reich Chamber of Commerce Christian von Ulmenstein (1738-1801) and his wife Amalie Eleonore Henriette (1755-1801), daughter of the Klevian government director Johann Heinrich Summermann. His grandfather was Johann von Ulmenstein (1695–1751), assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice, Danish State Councilor and since September 1745 Imperial Baron . His uncle Anton von Ulmenstein (1723–1785) became court counselor in 1749 and higher appellate judge in Celle in 1751 . His cousin Johann Wilhelm von Ulmenstein (1757–1843) was major general in the Kingdom of Hanover .

After having been trained by private tutors, he began to study law at the University of Marburg on April 19, 1795 , interrupted his studies at the end of 1796 and stayed with his father until mid-1797, before continuing his studies at the University of Erlangen .

In autumn 1797 he was employed as a clerk at the city court in Erlangen . In the spring of 1799 he became an auditor in a grenadier battalion. Also in the spring of 1799, after his first legal examination, he was accepted as a trainee lawyer with the government in Bayreuth and at the beginning of 1800 he was transferred to the city court in Erlangen. That year he took six months' leave and returned to his father, only to be transferred to the Berlin Supreme Court as a trainee lawyer at the beginning of 1801 , where he was preparing for the major exam, but after his father's death he had to take over the property in the Grafschaft Mark take over and therefore asked for the discharge from the judicial service.

Following the acquisition of the assets of his father he was the knighthood of the circle Hamm end 1803 District elected and on 3 January 1804 his great exam was instructed that he was on 3 March 1804th On March 17, 1803 he was installed in the office of the district administrator and thus succeeded Adam Friedrich Ernst Freiherr Senfft von Pilsach. As a result of the Fourth Coalition War , the county of Mark, in which Hamm was located, was ceded by Prussia to France in 1807 in the Peace of Tilsit . By decree of March 1, 1808, Napoleon linked the county of Mark to the Grand Duchy of Berg , including other areas , which led to Heinrich Christian von Ulmenstein being employed by the government in Potsdam .

In 1816 the city of Arnsberg fell to Prussia together with the former Duchy of Westphalia . Since then it has belonged to the province of Westphalia . It became the district town and seat of the district president of Arnsberg and Heinrich Christian von Ulmenstein was employed as a councilor to the new government. In 1827 he was Councilor in Dusseldorf, where he was involved in the expansion of the free port , creating an experimental garden and the establishment of a standing bridge across the Rhine.

In 1801 he married the eldest daughter of the war councilor Friedrich Christian Meyer, owner of the Brockhausen estate near Unna .

Works (selection)

  • About the unlimited divisibility of the soil . Berlin: Rücker, 1827 ( Google Books )
  • The Prussian town order and the French communal order: with regard to the writings of Professor von Raumer and the secret chief government councilor Streckfuss . Berlin: Enslin, 1829
  • The latest drafts of communal, district and departmental regulations for France . Cologne on the Rhine, JP Bachem. 1830 ( Google Books )
  • Concerning the merits and deficiencies of indirect taxation: together with an appendix on a negotiation concerning this subject which occurred in the French Chamber of Deputies . Düsseldorf: JE Schaub, 1831 ( Google Books )
  • Counter-remarks to the writing of the secret chief government councilor Streckfuss on the relationship of the Jews to the Christian states. Appendix: The declarations of the states of all provinces of the Prussian monarchy, about the civil relations of the Jews. Dresden: Grimmer, 1833 ( Google Books )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New necrology of the Germans . Voigt, 1842 ( google.de [accessed November 25, 2017]).
  2. ^ Wilhelm Sauer:  Ulmenstein, Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 207-209.
  3. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 1034 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ 1803 - HammWiki. Retrieved November 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Ulmenstein, Heinrich Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulmenstein, Heinrich Johann Anton Christian Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1840
Place of death Dusseldorf