Heinrich Friedrich von Itzenplitz

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Prussian Minister of State Count von Itzenplitz (illustration by Richard Brend'amour from 1895/96)

Count Heinrich Friedrich August von Itzenplitz (born February 23, 1799 in Groß Behnitz near Nauen ; † February 15, 1883 on his estate Kunersdorf near Wriezen ) was a Prussian minister of state , natural scientist and lawyer. He is the son of the landlord Peter Alexander von Itzenplitz (1768–1834) and the landlady Henriette Charlotte von Borcke (1772–1848).

Life

Burial place in Kunersdorf

Itzenplitz entered the Werdersche Gymnasium in Berlin in 1814 and "made Michaelis the Abitur graduate examination in 1818 with moderate but sufficient knowledge", as Itzenplitz admitted in retrospect in 1878. His parents were able to convince Professor Lichtenstein (1780–1857), the director of the Zoological Museum Berlin, to “retire” their son from Easter 1815 in his university residence, for which they “paid 1200 Thaler annually”. However, the sum also included spending on clothes, books, etc. He studied in Berlin and Göttingen science and the rights . "Around Easter 1819, Lichtenstein went on a trip on behalf of the state". Itzenplitz "accompanied him as his assistant" and to his training. The trip went through a large part of Europe and ended "in November 1819". In 1822 he entered the civil service, was initially an auscultator in Frankfurt (Oder), two years later he was employed as a trainee lawyer at the Berlin Supreme Court and in 1827 as an assessor in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. After completing the “years of apprenticeship” he called, he was “appointed government councilor in Stettin in 1829. ” The Stettin period lasted until 1838, and accordingly he characterized it as his “ten years of wandering”.

At the end of December 1838 he received the appointment that King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. “Have rested, the former government councilor Heinrich Friedrich August Count von Itzenplitz as senior government councilor and director of the general commission for the regulation of the landlord and peasant relationships in to appoint the Kurmark Brandenburg. "

In December 1839, he was also given the "overall supervision of the royal family sheep farm in Frankenfelde", which he exercised until April 1843. When "serious illnesses and other obstacles" forced 78-year-old Ludolph von Beckedorff to resign his 23-year supervision of Frankenfelde, Itzenplitz took over this office again from July 1856. After the Agriculture Minister of the so-called New Era, Erdmann Graf von Pückler on November 16 In 1859 the Landesökonomiekollegium had requested an expert opinion on the question whether "the further maintenance of the regular sheep farm at Frankenfelde is still to be regarded as a need at the expense of the state", On December 2nd of that year Itzenplitz asked the minister that he should Supervision of Frankenfelde “. Pückler, in turn, asked him to withdraw his request, whereupon Itzenplitz repeated it, pointing out that he could "in fact no longer find the time" for this office. On March 21, 1860, he was released from the supervision of the regular sheep farm.

On March 25, 1842, Interior Minister Gustav von Rochow informed King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of the future composition of the State Economics College. Among the total of 13 members he named "from the class of practical farmers" the "Ober -overnment-Rath Graf von Itzenplitz auf Barskewitz". He remained a full member until 1861.

At the beginning of May 1842, Friedrich Magnus von Bassewitz asked Gustav von Rochow, Minister of the Interior and the Police, the following request from Count von Itzenplitz: “Since the heads of the local General Commission always held the title of president in the past, he also wanted such an increase in rank received. ”In 1843 his wish for the title of president was fulfilled: He became government vice-president in Posen and in 1845 president of the government in Arnsberg . In March 1848 he resigned from civil service to manage his manor.

After he had belonged to the General Parliament in 1847 and the First Chamber from 1849 to 1854, he became a member of the manor house in 1854 at the presentation of the Count's Association of the Mark Brandenburg , in which he belonged to the moderate party and often worked as a reporter. On May 25, 1854, Itzenplitz was also appointed a member of the Prussian State Council. He held both offices until his death.

After the end of the New Era, King Wilhelm appointed four new ministers on March 17, 1862, including “the real go. Rath Count von Itzenplitz as Minister for Agricultural Affairs ”; According to the Itzenplitz “in politically questionable time” and without his “request or operation”. In this function he tried in vain from August to October of that year to campaign for the appointment of Albrecht Conrad Thaer , Albrecht Daniel Thaer's grandson, "as professor of agriculture at the local university". After King Wilhelm had "appointed the Real Secret Councilor of Bismarck-Schönhausen as State Minister on September 23, 1862 and assigned him the interim chairmanship of the State Ministry", Itzenplitz was "temporarily headed the Ministry of Commerce" on October 8 of that year "Commercial and public works commissioned", which he kept in the first Bismarck Ministry until May 1873. On October 20, 1862, Itzenplitz was "also appointed interim head of the Prussian Bank". He described his entire ministerial period as a "burden" that he had borne for "eleven years". In the Conflicts Ministry chapter of his thoughts and memories , Bismarck admitted that Finance Minister Bodelschwingh “and Count Itzenplitz, who was responsible for the Ministry of Commerce, were unable to run their ministries.” According to Bismarck, Itzenplitz was “a soft nature” and not in that Able to "drive the wheel of his overloaded ministerial vehicle independently, but rather drifted in the current that his subordinates created for him."

The contemporary Meyers Konversations-Lexikon wrote about his administration in 1888:

“His railroad policy was characterized by a great lack of principle: he first permitted the use of the Generalentreprise system, which Bethel Henry Strousberg imports to Germany, and which, in the way it was operated, had great inconveniences; a contradicting practice blurred the distinction between what is legally permitted and what is inadmissible to the point of being unrecognizable. When the speculative system of the "railway king" Strousberg began to collapse across Europe from 1870, Germany was also hard hit financially. The storm conjured up by Eduard Lasker's revelations was therefore directed primarily against Itzenplitz, who could only counter the most violent attacks with an assurance of his personal honesty, which no one doubted. "

In mid-April 1873, Itzenplitz asked Kaiser and King Wilhelm I to be released from his service: “I must not fail to see that my strength and my mental elasticity are on the decline, while business is increasing and becoming more difficult every day. (...) I have to worry that I will no longer be able to meet my official obligations, and therefore from now on harming your majesty's service rather than using it. "

Four weeks later he was released "from further management of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Public Works with the approval of the statutory pension and with the title and rank of Minister of State in grace".

He then retired to his manor and stayed away from public life until his death.

From 1867 to 1871 he was a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation as a member of the Reichstag constituency of Gumbinnen region .

He is buried in the inherited funeral of the von Lestwitz-Itzenplitz family in Kunersdorf .

family

Count Heinrich Friedrich comes from the Prussian noble family Itzenplitz .

He married Marianne Amalie Countess von Bernstorff on June 9, 1827 in Berlin (* February 12, 1805; † September 6, 1831). In 1828 she gave birth to a "non-viable son who died a few hours after he was born." Other children were:

  • Bertha Sophie Elise (born April 9, 1829) ⚭ Baron Max von Romberg (born September 6, 1824 - † September 22, 1904)
  • Henriette Marianne Jenny (* May 16, 1831) ⚭ 1852 Johann Friedrich Eduard von Alvensleben († June 22, 1885) from the Redekin house, captain

At the beginning of January 1833 he married Luise Charlotte Elisabeth Freiin von Sierstorff-Driburg (• August 14, 1811; † October 1, 1848) ( House Sierstorpff , Driburg ); she died in Behnitz "while giving birth to a dead son". The couple had the following children:

At the beginning of November 1849, Itzenplitz married Marie von Kröcher (* April 22, 1812; † August 6 (8), 1853, after the birth of their daughter). They had two children:

  • Friedrich August Günther (born March 16, 1851) died on August 16, 1870 in the battle of Mars-la-Tour near Metz
  • Marianne Luise Marie Frederike (* July 18, 1853 - July 11, 1929), mistress of Kunersdorf ⚭ January 9, 1884 Friedrich von Oppen (* December 20, 1855 - June 15, 1929), chamberlain and master of ceremonies

Appreciation

After Itzenplitz, a coal mine in the then Prussian part of the Saar coal area is named after the (then Prussian) Heiligenwald . The plant was a branch of the Reden mine .

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses for the year 1861 . 34th year Justus Perthes, Gotha 1861, p. 386 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Heide Inhetveen, Heinrich Kaak (ed.): I take up the pen with much pleasure: The agricultural letters from Henriette Charlotte von Itzenplitz to Albrecht Daniel Thaer around 1800 . Findling, Kunersdorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-933603-47-0 , p. 32.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Heinrich von Itzenplitz: Lebensnachrichten 1876 . In: Elisabeth and Marie von Falkenhausen (ed.): Life news of Count Heinrich von Itzenplitz . 1st edition. The Mark Brandenburg, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-910134-91-1 .
  3. ↑ a b GStA PK I. HA Rep. 87 B No. 2414.
  4. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam and the City of Berlin . Piece 4, January 24, 1840, p. 21 f.
  5. ↑ Cf. GStA PK I. HA Rep. 87 No. 3244.
  6. ↑ a b GStA PK I. HA Rep. 87 No. 3246.
  7. ↑ Cf. GStA PK I. HA Rep. 87 No. 3246.
  8. ↑ GStA PK I. HA Rep. 89 No. 30081, fol. 51 r.
  9. ↑ See manual on the royal Prussian court and state or state calendar 1843–1861.
  10. ↑ See the Royal Prussian State Calendar for the year 1855 . P. 78, and the following years.
  11. ↑ GStA PK I. HA Rep. 87 ZB No. 363; the listing with Otto Büsch (Ed.): Handbuch der Prussischen Geschichte. Volume II: The 19th century and major topics in the history of Prussia . Berlin 1992, p. 372, is not entirely correct.
  12. ↑ GStA PK I. HA Rep. 76 V a Sekt. 2 Tit. IV No. 30, fol. 72 r.
  13. ↑ GStA PK I. HA Rep. 90 A No. 2352, fol. 35 r.
  14. ↑ a b c d GStA PK I. HA Rep. 90 A No. 895.
  15. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 178, short biography p. 421; on his socio-political activities in the Ministry of Commerce, cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 . I. Department: From the time when the Empire was founded to the Imperial Social Message (1867-1881) . Volume 3: worker protection . Edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Stuttgart / Jena / New York 1996, pp. 31, 33, 68, 73 ff., 77, 85 f., 86 ff., 88, 92 ff., 97 ff., 100, 102, 114 , 119, 133 f., 137, 142, 148, 151, 160, 163 ff., 178, 221, 395, 524, 538.
  16. ^ Otto Fürst von Bismarck: Thoughts and memories . Volks-Ausgabe, first volume, Stuttgart and Berlin 1915, p. 326 f.
  17. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 10.
  18. ↑ Cf. Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses . 49. Vol. 1876, p. 404.
  19. ^ Heinrich von Itzenplitz: Lebensnachrichten 1876 . In: Elisabeth and Marie von Falkenhausen (ed.): Life news of Count Heinrich von Itzenplitz . 1st edition. Die Mark Brandenburg, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-910134-91-1 , p. 23; see. also: Grabrede 1883, in: Dietrich von Oppen (Ed.): Schloß Cunersdorf Bad Freienwalde 2001, p. 24.
  20. ^ Heinrich von Itzenplitz: Lebensnachrichten 1876 . In: Elisabeth and Marie von Falkenhausen (ed.): Life news of Count Heinrich von Itzenplitz . 1st edition. Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-910134-91-1 , p. 28; see. also funerary speech 1883, quoted from Dietrich von Oppen (ed.): Cunersdorf Castle . Bad Freienwalde 2001, p. 24.
  21. ↑ See. Genealogical Handbook of the nobility, noble houses A . Volume XX, Limburg an der Lahn 1988, p. 242.
  22. ↑ See. Genealogical Handbook of the noble houses, noble houses A . Volume VI, Limburg ad Lahn 1962, p. 281 f.
  23. ↑ Itzenplitz mine. In: Saargruben - The coal portal of the Saar. December 8, 2012, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on February 23, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Georg Wilhelm Keßler District President of the Arnsberg District
1845–1848 		Moritz von Bardeleben
personal data
SURNAME Itzenplitz, Heinrich Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Itzenplitz, Heinrich Friedrich August Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian statesman, scientist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Behnitz near Nauen
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1883
Place of death Kunersdorf near Wriezen