Karl Louis von Beust

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In 1867: the authorized representatives of the allied governments who prepared the establishment of the North German Confederation. Beust is third from the top on the far left.

Carl Ludwig Graf von Beust (born February 12, 1811 in Friedrichstanneck , † April 14, 1888 in Altenburg ) was Saxony-Altenburg State Minister.

Life

Born as the son of the later manorial estate owner on Serba in the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg , Traugott Friedrich Graf von Beust (1782-1852) and his first wife Charlotte von Fuchs (1787-1815), Beust studied at the Friedrichs-Universität Halle-Wittenberg , the university Leipzig and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin the rights. In 1830 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Leipzig . After taking his exams, Beust joined the Prussian judicial service in 1834, was appointed government trainee in 1836, assessor at the ducal Saxon government in Altenburg in 1838, councilor in 1841, chief of the Altenburg district in 1842, and in November 1848 the duke appointed chairman of the state ministry. Although he resigned from Duke Joseph (Sachsen-Altenburg) on November 30, 1848, he joined the ministry newly formed by Privy Councilor Hans Conon von der Gabelentz , in which he entered the government of Duke Georg (Sachsen-Altenburg) received the presidency again after the latter's voluntary resignation. In May 1850 Beust was appointed to the Real Privy Council .

In his official career he sought to act as a charitable and mediator. From 1840 to 1848 he was a member of the state parliament in Saxony-Altenburg . He resolutely opposed the riots during the German Revolution of 1848/1849 . Under his leadership, a new electoral law based on the Prussian model was passed with the parliament (August 3, 1850). At the beginning of 1853 Beust resigned from the ducal Saxon-Altenburg state service, but was appointed grand-ducal Saxon ambassador to Berlin in the same year as which he represented his duchy and the other Saxon duchies as ambassador in Prussia, and among other things signed the August alliance , which initiated the establishment of the North German Confederation . Beust held this position until 1867; in his retirement he lived secluded in Altenburg, where he also died on April 14, 1888.

Beust was married to Maria 'Marianne' Freiin von Krosigk (1810–1893); the marriage resulted in a daughter and three sons between 1840 and 1845. The brother-in-law of Marianne Freiin von Krosigk was Julius von Zech-Burkersroda .

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , p. 345 (in the section on Julius von Zech-Burkersroda).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogy. Paperback of the count's houses, (Perthes, Gotha), 1879, 99.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 96 , 198
3. ^ List of members of the Corps Saxonia in Leipzig 1812 to 1902, 44, 198
4. ^ Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon, 14th edition, 1894-1896, 2nd volume: Astrachan - Bilk
5. ^ Leskien, August in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 8 (1878), pp. 286–288

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