Johann Eduard von Schleinitz

Johann Eduard von Schleinitz, painting by Ernst Resch (1857)

Johann Eduard Christoph Freiherr von Schleinitz (born August 28, 1798 in Littschen in the Marienwerder district ; † June 4, 1869 Moschen in the Neustadt OS district ) was a Prussian civil servant, real Privy Councilor and President of the Province of Silesia (1848-1869).

Life

origin

Johann Eduard came from the Meissen family von Schleinitz . He was the son of Karl von Schleinitz (1751–1807), President of the Prussian Supreme Court, and his second wife, Friederike, born von Rosenberg-Gruszczynski (1774–1845). The Prussian Major General Gustav von Schleinitz was his stepbrother from his father's first marriage.

Career

Schleinitz grew up in Berlin and joined the Prussian Army as a war volunteer after attending a grammar school . He served in the 8th Hussar Regiment in the Napoleonic War of Liberation in 1815 . As a lieutenant , he retired from the army and studied law.

In 1822 he entered the administrative service of the royal government of Marienwerder as an assessor . In the same year on August 31, he was appointed district administrator in the Konitz district and remained in the post until 1827. His other posts were that of government vice-president in the Koblenz district (1837–1842) and the post of district president in the Bromberg district (1842– 1848). Briefly worked in 1848 as the provisional district president in the Liegnitz district , on November 21, 1848, he became chief president of the province of Silesia.

Since 1855 he has held the title of a Royal Prussian Real Secret Council.

From 1857 he was curator of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau and in 1861 received honorary doctorates from the philosophical and medical faculties .

family

Schleinitz married Jeanette von Hippel (1804–1850) in 1822 . From this marriage he had six daughters and five sons, including:

• Marie (1830–1915) ⚭ Adalbert von Schleinitz (1822–1896), Prussian lieutenant general
• Georg (1834–1910), German vice admiral

⚭ 1865 Klara Rieger (1834–1870)

⚭ 1871 Margot von Hippel (1846–1887)

⚭ 1888 Marie von Beulwitz (* 1863)

• Lina (1836–1912) ⚭ 1874 Richard Wachler (1829–1879), smelter
• Theodor (1838–1906), Prussian head forester ⚭ 1869 Magdalena Bergmann (1839–1901)
• Emil (1849–1901), Prussian major ⚭ 1870 Ida Soest (1842–1909)

His second marriage to Maria von Hippel (1817–1890), which he entered into in 1853, had another daughter:

• Elisabeth (* 1857)

Awards

• Order of the Red Eagle 1st class with oak leaves
• Commander of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern
• Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John
• Cross of Honor 1st Class of the Princely Hohenzollern House Order
• Russian Order of Saint Anne I. Class
• Imperial Russian Order of Saint Stanislaus 1st Class

literature

• Th. Oelsner (Ed.): Rübezahl. The Silesian Provincial Gazette . 72nd volume, V. Heft, Brieg Verlag, 1868. ( Online with Google Book Search ).
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser. 1914. Sixty-fourth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1913 p. 735 f.

Web links

• Biography of the Berlin State Library