Karl Ludwig Richard von Philipsborn

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Karl Ludwig Richard von Philipsborn (born July 16, 1808 in Schwedt , † July 4, 1884 in Berlin ) was a Prussian postmaster general and post director general of the North German Confederation.

Life

Karl Ludwig Richard von Philipsborn was the son of Adolf Philipsborn. Together with his brothers Maximilian , director in the Prussian Foreign Ministry, and Eugen, landowner in Fuchsmühl (Silesia), he was raised to the nobility on July 31, 1865.

After attending the Joachimsthal high school, Philipsborn joined the Prussian postal service in 1835. At first he was employed as a post clerk at the Hof Post Office in Berlin, then at the post offices in Schlawe and Soldin. He passed the service examination on December 12, 1838 with distinction. From December 1839 he worked in the General Post Office, where he was promoted to postal secretary on February 1, 1842. In charge of the inspection business, he set up new business regulations for the Hof Post Office. As early as December 1845, he was promoted to the position of secret dispatching secretary. From October 1, 1846, he and another official from the General Post Office headed the editorial office of the Official Journal of the Royal Postal Department. On October 2, 1847, he was appointed Royal Postal Inspector. In 1849 he worked in the postal organization commission, which worked out the decentralization of the administration (establishment of the upper postal directorates). He was also involved in the preparations for the postal service instructions that came into force on May 1, 1849, which summarized all previous operating regulations and was the forerunner of the general service instructions for post and telegraphy. He was also involved in the introduction of the railway posts. In 1849 he was also appointed Privy Postal Councilor and Lecturing Council in the General Post Office, in 1852 General Postal Inspector, 1859 Secret Postal Supreme Council and finally in 1862 as successor to Heinrich Schmückert as Prussian General Postmaster.

During the war with Austria in 1866, the Prussian Post established field post offices. After the war, negotiations followed to take over the Thurn und Taxis postal service in Prussian administration. The new provinces of Schleswig-Holstein and Hanover were also integrated into the Prussian postal system. From January 1, 1868, the postal administration of the North German Confederation was established, in which the Prussian, Saxon, Mecklenburg, Brunswick and Oldenburg regional postal services were incorporated. Philipsborn became the new general post director. Under his leadership, postal contracts were concluded with the southern German states and Austria-Hungary and the operating regulations were standardized. With the introduction of the postal order, it was in future possible to send small amounts of money, the postage inside was set at a silver groschen.

Philipsborn resigned from civil service in April 1870 and held the office of President of the Prussian Central-Bodenkredit-Gesellschaft for a few years.

literature

  • Obituary in: Archive for Post and Telegraphy 1884, pp. 414–415.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Memories from Johannes Dittrich to Eugen von Philipsborn