Johann Friedrich von Pommer Esche

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Johann Friedrich Pommer Esche (since 1813 by Pommer Esche ) (born February 10, 1803 in Stralsund , † April 18, 1870 in Berlin ) was a Prussian civil servant. Most recently he was General Tax Director.

Life

His father was a Swedish councilor who was raised to the Swedish nobility in 1813. One of his brothers was Adolf von Pommer Esche .

He attended Stralsund high school and studied law in Göttingen and Berlin between 1822 and 1826 . He then entered the Prussian judicial service as an auscultator and completed the usual preparatory service. At the instigation of Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth , he switched to administration in 1831. Initially employed by the government in Frankfurt an der Oder , he soon moved to the provincial tax office for the province of Silesia in Breslau . In 1832 he was appointed a government assessor and in 1833 a councilor. A year later he became legal advisor to the government in Szczecin . In 1834 he moved to the Ministry of Finance as an unskilled worker. Already in 1836 he was appointed to the secret finance and lecturing council. This was followed in 1839 by the appointment to the secret Oberfinanzrat.

In 1842 Pommer Esche was an authorized representative at the Central Rhine Shipping Commission . In 1847 he was a ministerial representative at the First United State Parliament . In 1849 he became General Tax Director.

In this office he played an important role in the further development of the German Customs Union . He was heavily involved in the conclusion of the Prussian treaties with the Kingdom of Hanover (1851), the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (1852), Austria (1853) and, following the Cobden Treaty with France (1862), Belgium (1865) and Great Britain (1865) .

As early as 1854, Pommer Esche was appointed a real secret Oberfinanzrat and a member of the Council of State for his services to international customs treaties . In 1857 he was appointed a member of a commission of the Council of State that prepared fundamental financial management decisions for the king's decision. In 1865, Pommer-Esche was appointed to the Real Secret Council.

After the annexation of new provinces in 1866 he was busy with the adjustment of the local tax administration. At the same time he was an authorized representative at the Federal Council of the North German Confederation . He was also active in the Federal Council of the Customs Union. The draft of the Association Customs Act of 1869 comes from him.

He was married to Flora, b. Picht (1812–1900), a daughter of the Gingster pastor Adolph Wilhelm Picht . She hosted a salon in Berlin .

Johann Friedrich von Pommer Esche died in Berlin in 1870 at the age of 67. He was buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstädtische and Friedrichswerder parishes on Chausseestrasse . The grave has not been preserved.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Wilhelmy: The Berlin Salon in the 19th Century: 1780-1914. Berlin: de Gruyter 1989 ISBN 9783110118919 (= publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin 73), p. 784f.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 102.
  3. ↑ Königlich Preußischer Staats-Anzeiger 1870, p. 21. (online)
personal data
SURNAME Pommer Esche, Johann Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1870
Place of death Berlin