Heinrich Julius von Goldbeck

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Heinrich Julius Goldbeck , from 1778 von Goldbeck and Reinhart or von Goldbeck (born August 2, 1733 in Stendal , † June 10, 1818 in Berlin ) was Prussian Grand Chancellor and Minister of Justice.

origin

Goldbeck came from the ancient nobility of the Altmark . The important noble family of Goldbecks had ruled the Altmark since the end of the 12th century and was first mentioned in a document in 1274. His parents were the senior judge in Stendal Karl Friedrich von Goldbeck (* June 16, 1675; † September 14, 1759) and Dorothea Elisabeth Amalie von Reinhar (d) t (* November 16, 1698; † August 29, 1774).

life and work

In the 1750s he studied at the University of Frankfurt / Oder . After graduating, he became a trainee lawyer in Stendal in 1755 . In 1758 he switched to the chamber court as a trainee lawyer , where he was also hired in 1763 as a chamber judge. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge Zur Eintracht . In 1768 he joined the Masonic teaching method of strict observance under the name Julius Eques a Cratere .

In 1774 Goldbeck was appointed secret tribunal councilor. In 1778 he was promoted to President of the Court of Appeal and appointed Director of the General Post Office and Condirector of the general widow catering society and the Kur- und Neumärkischen credit system. In the same year, as the royal Prussian secret tribunal and post councilor on March 28, 1778 in Berlin at the same time as his brothers, he achieved the Prussian nobility confirmation and nobility renewal with the name unification of the von Reinhart family .

In 1789 Goldbeck moved to the top of the state. He was appointed Minister of State and Justice and was now entrusted with the Justice Department of the Province of Westphalia , was Chief President of the Chamber Court, the Higher Regional Court in excise and customs matters and was in charge of the Criminal Department. In 1795 he was finally appointed Grand Chancellor and Chief President of the Legislative Commission.

In 1798 Goldbeck gave the crime department to Albrecht Heinrich von Arnim-Kröchlendorff (1744-1805) and took over the Palatinate Colony Department and - also jointly - the military justice department together with Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeyer . After the departure of the Minister von Arnim, Goldbeck was again responsible for the criminal department in 1802; In addition, he became the second director and decreed of the Kurmärkische Landschaft and the city treasuries and supervised the judicial affairs in East and West Prussia .

family

He married Henriette Dorothea Seegebarth (* May 15, 1742, † April 24, 1816). The couple had several children:

  • Karl Friedrich (born September 3, 1768) ∞ Karoline Alexandrine von Schrötter (born December 27, 1780 - † July 15, 1839)
  • Wilhelmine (* 1771; † 1804) ∞ Count Wilhelm von Cramer († March 2, 1841), Prussian district administrator, son of Johann Heinrich von Carmer

Orders and decorations

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1911. Fifth year, p.298

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Gerke: The members of the Berlin Masonic Lodge 'Zur Eintracht' 1754-1815 in 260 Years of Johannisloge zur Eintracht, p. 151. Johannisloge Zur Eintracht eV, 2014, accessed on May 3, 2015 . (PDF 4.5 MB)
  2. General Handbook of Freemasonry , Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig p. 538. [1]
  3. This also applies to his brothers Johann Friedrich , royal Prussian secret government and war councilor and general auditor , Samuel August , royal Prussian government councilor, and Hans Christoph Goldbeck , royal Prussian war and domain council; all four were adoptive sons of their uncle, the Prussian major von Reinhart , brother of their mother. In future, however, they were only called von Goldbeck . - Source: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IV, Page 182, Volume 67 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1978.

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