Johann August Wilhelm Frantz

Johann August Wilhelm Frantz (born March 13, 1769 in Neuhaldensleben , † December 15, 1852 in Halle ) was a Prussian and Westphalian civil servant.

Life

Frantz was born the son of a senior customs officer in Neuhaldensleben and, with the support of his father, attended the monastery school of Our Lady in Magdeburg in 1784 . He became enthusiastic about science at an early age and enrolled at the University of Halle in 1787 . At his father's request, he studied law , but he himself was more inclined to cameralistics . He heard from Professor of Law, Legal History and Philosophy Daniel Nettelbladt , whose students also included the authors of the General Prussian Land Law of 1794 Ernst Ferdinand Klein and Carl Gottlieb Svarez . After completing his legal exam , he had the prospect of a job as an auditor at the Wolmirstedt Justice Office and attended official meetings for two years in the early 1790s to gain practical experience.

Hopes for a vacant position in the judicial office were taken away from Frantz in the spring of 1793, so that he reoriented himself and went into the Prussian administrative service with his training. Frantz was a trainee at the War and Domain Chamber in Magdeburg and was in the road building commission operates the chamber to forward funds for building track the Chaussee Magdeburg-Halle-Leipzig inhabitants in Saalekreis that are compensated in terms of the sometimes very complex system had to. He was allowed to take the Grand Examination in March 1795. The chamber certified him extensive knowledge of tax payments, factories and the police, as well as skill and diligence. On May 30, 1795 he was examined before the Minister Otto von Voss and in 1801 employed as a war and domain councilor in Magdeburg. In addition, he became president of the road construction commission for the Saalekreis. He headed the offices until the end of 1806.

With the cession of the areas to the left of the Elbe, which Prussia was forced to do in 1807 by the Peace of Tilsit after the Napoleonic victory in the double battle of Jena-Auerstedt , Frantz, as well as the entire staff of the Magdeburg Chamber, switched to the Westphalian civil service . Frantz became sub-prefect of the Halle district in the Saale department , where he had already worked before, and in October 1808, after Friedrich von Hövel was promoted to the state council, he became prefect of the linen department in Göttingen . In Göttingen, Frantz u. a. for the receipt of the University of Göttingen . With the establishment of the Allerdepartement in September 1810, after the dismissal of Georg von Schele, who had been employed there, he was placed on the vacant post of Prefect of Hanover . Whether through the already higher focus of attention on the Hanoverian prefecture or, as Thimme pointed out, through denunciations of individual military personnel - he was spied on by the high police from 1812 onwards. Nevertheless, he remained in this position until the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia in November 1813.

Frantz was married to the daughter of a bailiff and tenant Bartel since 1802. After the end of his term in office in Westphalia, he bought an estate near Passendorf , today a district of the city of Halle an der Saale, where he also died in 1852.

literature

• Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 279 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Thimme Friedrich, The internal conditions of the Electorate of Hanover under the Franco-Westphalian rule , Bd. II. Hanover / Leipzig 1895.

Remarks

1. ↑ See Hummel Hans, Preußischer Chausseebau. 200 years Chaussee Magdeburg-Halle-Leipzig, in: Die Straße, vol. 26 (1986), no. 11, p. 344ff.
2. ↑ Cf. Thimme Friedrich, The inner states of the Electorate of Hanover under the Franco-Westphalian rule, Vol. II. Hanover / Leipzig 1895, p. 112, (incorrect information from Thimme: Frantz was not sub-prefect of the Helmstedt district)
3. ↑ See ibid., P. 112.