Hermann of Lucanus

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Hermann of Lucanus
Grave of Hermann von Lucanus

Hermann Karl Friedrich Lucanus , since 1888 by Lucanus , (* May 24, 1831 in Halberstadt ; † August 3, 1908 in Potsdam ) was a German lawyer, Prussian State Councilor and head of the secret civil cabinet of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Life

Hermann Lucanus comes from a middle-class pharmacist family and was the son of the pharmacist Friedrich Lucanus in Halberstadt. He studied law in Heidelberg, Göttingen and Berlin. Since 1853 he was a member of the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg .

In 1854 he became an auscultator, thus a Prussian civil servant, and in 1859 an assessor and "auxiliary worker" in the Prussian Ministry of Culture in Berlin. In 1866 he was appointed to the government council and in 1871 to go. Government Councilor and Lecturing Council, in 1878 as Ministerial Director and in 1881 as Undersecretary of State in the Prussian Ministry of Education . In 1886 he became Real Privy Councilor with the title Excellency, in 1888 Privy Cabinet Councilor and Chief of the Secret Civil Cabinet of the Emperor and King. From 1897 he was a member of the State Council. He was friends with Adolf von Harnack and supported his theological views, which were almost revolutionary for the time (in his “Textbook on the History of Dogmas”).

Lucanus was also the capitular of the Merseburg cathedral monastery .

family

His son Friedrich von Lucanus was a soldier and ornithologist.

Awards

Lucanus received an honorary doctorate from the law and medical faculties of the Universities of Göttingen and Halle in 1884 . In 1888 he was raised to hereditary nobility. Since 1897 he was a Knight of the Black Eagle Order .

literature

  • Hans Körner:  Lucanus, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 270 ( digitized version ).
  • The members of Vandalia zu Heidelberg as of September 29, 1935 , Berlin 1936, p. 52.
  • John CG Röhl : The higher civil service in Wilhelmine Germany. In: JCG Röhl: Kaiser, Hof and State - Wilhelm II and German politics. 2nd Edition. Munich 1988, pp. 141–161, here: p. 153.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 68 , 159.
personal data
SURNAME Lucanus, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucanus, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian State Councilor and Head of the Secret Civil Cabinet
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1908
Place of death Potsdam