Hermann Jakob von Bertrab

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Hermann Jakob von Bertrab (born July 15, 1818 in Göttingen , † December 2, 1887 in Rudolstadt ) was Minister of State in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt .

Hermann Jakob von Bertrab, who was a Catholic denomination, was the son of the Göttingen mayor Karl Theodor Maximilian von Bertrab. He studied law and worked in the Prussian judicial service from September 2, 1841. At first he was an ausculator at the Kammergericht in Berlin, where he became a Kemmer court trainee on November 18, 1843, an assessor on June 7, 1846, and an assistant to the public prosecutor at the court on 23 November 1847. On June 24, 1848 he became an assessor at the higher regional court Ratibor and on March 31, 1849 public prosecutor at the district court of Prenzlau .

On July 1, 1850, he left the Prussian civil service and became senior public prosecutor at the Eisenach joint appeals court .

On December 19, 1851, he was appointed minister to Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. His wife, born von Gleichen-Rußwurm, had family ties to Rudolstadt. He remained head of government in Rudolstadt until his death and shaped the politics of the small state.

From December 19, 1851 to April 1, 1868 he was a member of the total ministry (1851-1858) and the ministry of Rudolstadt (1858-1888) and head of ministerial department 1 (external and princely house). From April 1, 1868 to December 3, 1887 he was Minister of State in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

On December 19, 1851, he was awarded the title of Privy Councilor , and on March 30, 1854, the title of Excellency . He was an honorary citizen of Rudolstadt.

family

In 1853 he married the baroness Maria von Ketelhodt (born January 3, 1825) who died the following year.

After the death of his first wife, he married Fredrike Charlotte Louise von Gleichen-Rußwurm (born September 25, 1837) on April 17, 1856 .

literature

  • Friedrich Facius : The directing ministers of the Thuringian states 1815-1918. 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. 261.
  • Ulrich Hess: History of the state authorities in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. 1994, ISBN 3-334-60503-5 , pp. 160 ff., 172-173.
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke, New General German Nobility Lexicon , Volume 5, S.378 , by Bertrab
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book together with diplomatic-statistical yearbook: 1868, p.851

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documents and historical news of the Ketelhodtscher family, Volume 2, p.152
  2. Jump up ↑ Joseph Freisen, State and Catholic Church in the German Federal States , Volume 2, p. 154
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of baronial houses, 1863, p.289
personal data
SURNAME Bertrab, Hermann Jakob from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lawyer, Minister of State in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1887
Place of death Rudolstadt