Karl Joseph Benjamin Herzog

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Karl Joseph Benjamin Herzog (* 1827 in Brieg , Upper Silesia ; † 1902 ) was a German administrative lawyer, most recently State Secretary for Alsace-Lorraine.

Studies and professional career

After studying law at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University , he joined the judiciary in 1852. In 1856 he moved to the financial department of the Royal Government in Wroclaw as legal advisor . At the same time, he became senior president for trade and business affairs.

In 1859 he was appointed unskilled worker in the Department of Commerce and Industry in the Prussian Ministry of Commerce. There he was promoted to the lecturing council in 1864. As such, he was the representative of the North German Confederation at the World Exhibition and the International Coin Conference in Paris in 1867 . According to the International Agreement of October 17, 1868 for the regulation of inland navigation on the Rhine ( Mannheim Act ), he was the representative of Prussia until 1870 for the Rhine Shipping Commission established by this agreement. Between 1870 and 1871 he was chairman of the Federal Council's commission on further training in statistics for the German Customs Union .

Promotion to State Secretary for Alsace-Lorraine

After the establishment of the German Empire , in September 1871 he was appointed as the Real Secret Higher Government Council and director of the newly formed Department III in the Reich Chancellery responsible for Alsace-Lorraine .

After the establishment of the Reich Office for Alsace-Lorraine on July 1, 1876, he became Undersecretary of State there and also a member of the Federal Council. In this office he also headed the Reich Senquête for the cotton and linen industry in the winter of 1878/79 .

After Alsace-Lorraine was subordinated to the German Emperor, he became its first state secretary on October 1, 1879, after the creation of a separate ministry for Alsace-Lorraine. At the same time the office of Reich Governor was created in Strasbourg . After its first incumbent Field Marshal Edwin von Manteuffel made concessions to the clergy , which he did not approve of himself, he asked for his dismissal in July 1880. In October 1880, Karl von Hofmann succeeded him as State Secretary for Alsace-Lorraine.

Following his resignation, he made a long trip through America . After his return he took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of the Disconto-Gesellschaft and became Adolph von Hansemann's personal advisor on fundamental issues relating to the establishment of the New Guinea company .

Fonts

  • Travel letters from America , 2 volumes. Berlin 1884

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Däbritz: David Hansemann and Adolph von Hansemann . Scherpe, Krefeld 1954, pp. 130, 132 and 142.
personal data
SURNAME Duke, Karl Joseph Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION State Secretary of the German Reich
DATE OF BIRTH 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Brieg ( Silesia )
DATE OF DEATH 1902