Hermann von Stengel (State Secretary)
Hermann Guido Leopold Freiherr von Stengel (born July 19, 1837 in Speyer ; † 1919 ) was a Bavarian administrative officer, German politician and State Secretary in the Reich Treasury of the German Empire .
Studies and professional career
He was born as the son of the Palatinate government president Carl Albert Leopold von Stengel and Julia Magdalena Catharina Franziska von Meyer and was baptized on July 21, 1837 in Speyer.
After studying law , he entered the civil service of the Kingdom of Bavaria . In 1874 he was a government assessor in Würzburg . In 1881 he became Ministerialrat and, as such, Deputy Plenipotentiary at the Bundesrat in Berlin . He held this office for sixteen years until he was appointed to the State Council .
State Secretary in the Reich Treasury and the weakness of the Reich finances
On August 23, 1903, he succeeded Max Franz Guido von Thielmann as State Secretary in the Reich Treasury .
In the following years there was an increasing weakening of the imperial finances, which ultimately turned into a permanent structural crisis. The naval laws of 1898 and 1900 had to be financed, the deployment of German troops during the Boxer Rebellion in China had to be paid for, the army increases in 1893, 1899 and 1905 to a target strength of 613,000 men during his tenure and the increase in military pensions had to be covered.
In 1906, beset by rising armament costs, he developed a measure that undermined the system of existing federalism and demanded a Reich inheritance tax and higher consumption taxes . However, the measures failed to achieve the desired success, so that the Reich debt increased from 3 billion marks in 1904 to 4 billion marks in 1908.
On February 20, 1908, he was replaced as State Secretary by Reinhold von Sydow .
For the family, see also: The Lords of Stengel
Publications
- The basic relief in Bavaria. Wuerzburg 1874
literature
- Michael Stürmer : The Germans and their nation. The restless empire - Germany 1866–1918. Kornwestheim 1983.
- PC Witt: The financial policy of the German Reich from 1903 to 1913. A study on the domestic policy of Wilhelmine Germany. Lübeck 1970.
Adolf von Scholz (1880–1882) | Franz Emil Emanuel von Burchard (1882–1886) | Karl von Jacobi (1886–1888) | Helmuth von Maltzahn (1888–1893) | Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner (1893–1897) | Max Franz Guido von Thielmann (1897–1903) | Hermann von Stengel (1903–1908) | Reinhold von Sydow (1908–1909) | Adolf Wermuth (1909–1912) | Hermann Kühn (1912–1915) | Karl Helfferich (1915–1916) | Siegfried von Roedern (1916–1918) | Eugen Schiffer (1918-1919)
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| SURNAME | Stengel, Hermann von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stengel, Hermann Guido Leopold Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian administrative officer, German politician and State Secretary in the Reich Treasury of the German Empire |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Speyer |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1919 |