Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler
Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler (born January 22, 1770 in Ansbach , † June 13, 1846 in Berlin ) was the Prussian postmaster general.
origin
His parents were the Ansbacher Hof-, Reg.- u. Counselor Simon Friedrich Nagler (1728–1793) and his wife Charlotta Juliana Catharina Cramer (1736–1815).
Life
Von Nagler studied law and political science in Erlangen and Göttingen as well as in Berlin . After passing the exam, von Nagler first entered the civil service in Ansbach and was busy with the reorganization of the Prussian provinces in Franconia . In 1795 he was promoted to War and Domain Council and came to Berlin, where in 1804 he became secret legation councilor. From 1821, as President of the General Postal Administration, he introduced new principles for postal administration, which were later continued and perfected by his successor Gottlieb Heinrich Schmückert .
From 1823 to 1836 he was postmaster general and from 1823 also a member of the State Council.
From 1824, von Nagler was often employed in Frankfurt am Main as an envoy to the Bundestag . In 1836 he was appointed secret minister of state. Due to his very conservative attitude, von Nagler used the postal service for police surveillance. He is considered to be the founder of the modern postal system.
In 1823 he was ennobled. He was buried in the former cathedral cemetery in Berlin.
See also: Reichspost
family
He married Ernestine Marianne Philippine vom Stein zum Altenstein (1778-1803) and after her death her youngest sister, but she too died soon. The Prussian Minister of State Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein (1770–1840) was his brother-in-law
He then married Emilie Herft (1790–1845) and has a son for me.
Fonts
- Ernst Kelchner and Karl Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (ed.): Letters of the Royal. Prussia. Minister of State, Postmaster General and former Bundestag envoy Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler to a state official as a contribution to the history of the nineteenth century . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1869
literature
- Ernst Kelchner: Nagler, Karl Ferdinand Friedrich v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 233-237.
- Uwe Meier, Erwin Müller-Fischer: Nagler, Carl Ferdinand Friedrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 717 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Leopold von Zedlitz, New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 3, p.443
- German Post Almanac 1846, Nekrolog
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nagler, Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von. Hessian biography. (As of March 21, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Nagler, Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von in the Frankfurt dictionary of persons
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nagler, Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | General Post Director of the North German Confederation |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1770 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ansbach , Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1846 |
| Place of death | Berlin |