Julius Traugott von Könneritz

Julius Traugott Jakob von Könneritz, picture by Carl Lutherer

Grave site of Julius Traugott von Könneritz on the Trinitatisfriedhof in Dresden

Julius Traugott Jakob von Könneritz (born May 30, 1792 in Merseburg , † October 28, 1866 in Dresden ) was a Saxon politician. From 1843 to 1848 he was chairman of the entire Saxon ministry .

Life

Julius Traugott von Könneritz was born as the son of the Saxon stable master Hans Könneritz (1753–1829) and his wife Armgard (1768–1837), the daughter of the count and valet in Merseburg and the dean of Zeitz Johann Jakob von Hohenthal (1740–1802), born. From 1804 to 1808 he received his training in Schulpforta and then devoted himself to studying law at the University of Wittenberg until 1811. From 1811 he worked in the Leipzig district office as an auditor at the Oberhofgericht and from 1812 in Mersburg at the Chamber College there.

After he had voluntarily participated in the campaign of 1814 as a trainee officer in Belgium , he completed his second legal exam and in 1814 became assessor for the Saxon state government in Dresden . He joined the Saxon state government in 1817 as a supernumerary, court and judicial councilor, became governor of Grimma in 1818 , councilor of appeal in 1821 , then court and judicial councilor to the state government, entered the secret cabinet as a lecturer in 1828, and became chancellor of the conservative state government in 1830 , was Minister of Justice of Saxony from 1831 to 1846 and Minister of the Royal House from 1831 to 1833 .

His work was the separation of justice and administration in the higher instances as well as the division of the state government into a state judicial college and a state directorate. Even greater changes occurred through him as a result of the first constitutional state parliament . In addition to the State Servants Act, the Military Criminal Code and the Act on Allodification of Fiefs , the Criminal Code of 1838 was also essentially Koenneritz's work. He also took part in the preparation of the civil code.

In particular, however, he gave the authority a reorganization. Since 1843 chairman of the entire ministry, he, a main opponent of the publicity and verbality demanded by the estates, gave up the portfolio of the judiciary in 1846 and resigned from the civil service on March 13, 1848 in the course of the events during the March Revolution . After him there was a general civil ministry under Karl Braun . After he was overthrown, he retired to his manor in Lossa , but was still a member of the State Council and the State Court.

literature

Hans Jürgen Rieckenberg: Könneritz, Julius Traugott from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 364 f. ( Digitized version ).
Könneritz . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 12.
Könneritz in the Stadtwiki Dresden

Web links

Literature by and about Julius Traugott von Könneritz in the Saxon Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ Different date of birth compared to the NDB due to an extract from the church book of the Merseburg Cathedral from September 18, 1829.

personal data
SURNAME	Könneritz, Julius Traugott from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Könneritz, Julius Traugott Jakob von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saxon politician and head of government
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH	Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH	October 28, 1866
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Different date of birth compared to the NDB due to an extract from the church book of the Merseburg Cathedral from September 18, 1829.