Karl Ludwig Bohlendorff

Karl Ludwig Böhlendorff (* 1767 in Berlin , † April 17, 1855 in Stettin ) was the Prussian district president in Stettin and provincial tax director of Pomerania .

Life

Karl Ludwig Böhlendorff attended the Joachimsthal High School from 1781 to 1785 . Then he entered the service of the Prussian General Excise and Customs Directorate. In 1787 he got a job as a calculator at the Provincial Directorate in Stettin. He was later promoted to provincial tax inspector and finally in 1795 to excise and customs council with the rank of war and domain council. It is unclear whether his transfer to Stolp was connected with it or not until a little later. In 1804 he was transferred to Heiligenstadt to set up the administration there. From 1806 he worked again in Szczecin. In 1810 he was appointed government director of the Pomeranian excise and customs deputation.

In 1815, Böhlendorff asked in a letter to State Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg not to move him to another location, but to leave him the directorate of Government Department II. Hardenberg agreed and Böhlendorff received the requested position in 1816. Böhlendorff worked closely with the Upper President Johann August Sack on the restructuring of the Pomeranian province . One of their projects was the expansion of the waterway from the Baltic Sea through the Swine to Stettin. In 1818 Karl Ludwig Böhlendorff was appointed Vice President of the Government and in 1820 President of the District of Stettin .

He encouraged the city of Swinoujscie to turn to bathing. Together with President Sack, he founded a stock corporation that had the first spa house built in the city. In 1826 Böhlendorff was appointed secret chief finance councilor and provincial tax director in Pomerania . Shortly afterwards he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class awarded. The Provincial Tax Directorate was a newly created, independent authority alongside the district governments. All tax and customs offices in the province were subordinate to her. Almost every year Böhlendorff managed to collect more taxes than was expected in the budget.

For his services he was awarded the Red Eagle Order III in 1833. Class. On his 50th anniversary in service , in 1835, he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves. In 1843 he was appointed to the Real Secret Chief Finance Councilor. On the 60th anniversary of his service he received the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class. In 1850 he was given the requested retirement. When he left the service he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle First Class with Oak Leaves.

family

Karl Ludwig Böhlendorff adopted August Kölpin, a son of the Szczecin judiciary Franz Philipp Kölpin (1783–1848). August Kölpin was raised to the nobility in 1856 with the name of Böhlendorff-Kölpin . He had two daughters and the son Karl von Böhlendorff-Kölpin (1855–1925).

literature

• Robert Burkhardt :  On the biography of the provincial tax director Karl Ludwig Böhlendorff . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series, vol. 33, issue 1, Léon Saunier, Stettin 1931, pp. 251–260 ( digitized version ). ( alternative link )