Heinrich Gottlob von Mühler

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Heinrich Gottlob von Mühler, 1847. Graphic by Eduard Kretzschmar.

Heinrich Gottlob Mühler , from 1851 von Mühler (born June 23, 1780 in Louisenhof near Pless , civil rule Pless ; † January 15, 1857 in Berlin ) was a lawyer and royal Prussian minister of state and justice as well as crown syndicate .

origin

Mühler came from a Silesian family whose lineage begins with Heinrich Mühler (around 1677-1751), the Count of Hochberg's hospital administrator in Upper Silesia, Pleß. His parents were the Chamber Councilor Heinrich Mühler (1747-1810) and his wife Johanne Eich (1758-1792) from Wernigerode.

With the award of the Order of the Black Eagle , Mühler was elevated to the Prussian nobility as President of the Secret High Tribunal on June 14, 1851 in Potsdam . His descendants had previously been ennobled in Berlin on December 22nd, 1833 .

family

He married Luise Boenisch in Brieg in 1807 († December 6, 1808). The couple had a daughter Johanna Marie Luise (* November 24, 1808; † December 20, 1855) who married the councilor Friedrich Theodor von Meckel (1802-1875), a son of the chief president Friedrich Theodor von Merckel .

In his second marriage in 1810 he married Ulrike Hoffmann (1793–1873). The couple had 3 sons and 3 daughters:

  • Henriette Wilhelmine (October 9, 1811 - November 7, 1889) ⚭ 1836 Wilhelm von Merckel (August 6, 1803 - December 27, 1861)
  • Heinrich (1813–1874) Prussian minister of education ⚭ Adelheid Malwine Fanny von Goßler (born January 28, 1821 - † October 5, 1901)
  • Sophie (1816–1877) ⚭ Karl Gustav von Goßler , Chancellor of the Kingdom of Prussia .
  • Karl (1820–1888), secret councilor
  • Ferdinand (1820–1870), Privy Cabinet Councilor
  • August (1833–1906), canon

Life

Mühler was the royal Prussian minister of state and justice, president of the secret upper tribunal, crown syndic and member of the Prussian manor house .

From 1798 to 1801 he studied law at the University of Halle , then began his civil service career as a trainee lawyer at the Oberamtsregierung zu Brieg , became assessor in 1804 and went to the Higher Regional Court in Brieg in 1810 .

In 1815 he became a member of the Chamber of Justice and in 1817 a member of the Rhenish Auditing and Cassation Court . In 1822 Mühler became Vice President at the Higher Regional Court of Halberstadt ( Province of Saxony ) and in 1824 at the Higher Regional Court of Breslau . In 1827 he was a temporary member of the Law Revision Commission.

In February 1832 he was appointed to the Prussian State Council, of which he was a member until December 1854, and at the same time appointed Prussian Minister of Justice, first alongside Karl von Kamptz, and from 1839 to September 1844 as sole Minister of Justice. He then took over the position of Chief President of the High Tribunal. In 1849 he also became president of the Disciplinary Court for non-judicial officials.

He was released from these functions at his own request in November 1854 and retired. In the year of his adoption, Mühler was appointed crown syndicate and appointed as a member of the Prussian manor house.

Heinrich Gottlob von Mühler died in Berlin in 1857 at the age of 76 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Titles, medals and decorations

  • Red Eagle Order 3rd Class (before 1824)
  • Prussian Minister of State with the title "Excellence" (February 1832)
  • Red Eagle Order 3rd Class with Ribbon (before 1834)
  • Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class with Star and Oak Leaves (before 1835)
  • Order of the Red Eagle 1st Class with Oak Leaves (before 1839)
  • Black Eagle Order (June 14, 1851)
  • The chain for the Order of the Black Eagle was awarded to him before 1854.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN  0435-2408
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B Volume XVIII, page 174 (v. Goßler), Volume 95 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISSN  0435-2408
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 306.
personal data
SURNAME Mühler, Heinrich Gottlob from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mühler, Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lawyer and minister of justice
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Louisenhof near Pless , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1857
Place of death Berlin