Karl von Jacobi (State Secretary)

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Karl Rudolf Jacobi , von Jacobi since 1888 (born September 8, 1828 in Jeggau , † July 24, 1903 in Zinnowitz ) was a German State Secretary in the Reich Treasury and a real secret council .

Life

origin

Karl was the son of pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Jacobi († 1841) and his wife Karoline Marianne, née Greif († 1867).

Career

Jacobi began to study law at the Friedrichs-Universität Halle and became active in the Corps Borussia Halle in 1848 . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . After the exams he entered the administrative service of the Kingdom of Prussia . From 1856 and 1862 he was a laborer in the Ministry of Commerce and then for two years in the Ministry of the Interior. In 1864 he returned to the Ministry of Commerce as an unskilled worker, where he was promoted to government councilor in 1866 . Characterized as a secret government councilor in 1867 and as a secret upper government councilor in 1870 , in 1873 he moved to the Prussian State Ministry as a lecturer for a year . In 1872 he became a member of the State Council and the Court of Justice for Conflicts of Competence. In 1873 he became an authorized representative of the Federal Council and in the autumn of that year he became the first lecturing council in the State Ministry. In 1874 he was appointed Ministerial Director in the Ministry of Commerce. From 1877 to 1879 he was the first president of the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin , which was founded on July 1, 1877 . In 1879 he returned to the Prussian Ministry of Commerce as Undersecretary of State. From 1880 he also headed the economic department in the Reich Office of the Interior. He resigned from the civil service in 1881 and became president of the Prussian Zentralbodenkreditgesellschaft. In 1886 he returned for a short time to the Ministry of Commerce as Undersecretary and took over the function of Federal Plenipotentiary again. In November 1886, he succeeded Franz Emil Emanuel von Burchard, who had been dismissed due to illness, as State Secretary in the Reich Treasury .

In this position Jacobi was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on September 4, 1888 by Kaiser Wilhelm II . On September 14, 1888, he resigned from his position for health reasons. Successor as State Secretary was Helmuth von Maltzahn . In 1891 he became a member of the colonial council founded by imperial decree of October 10, 1890, to which he belonged until his death.

family

Jacobi had married Louise Pernice (* 1834) in Halle (Saale) on April 18, 1857 . The following children were born from the marriage:

  • Martha (* 1859) ⚭ October 8, 1881 Eugen Poser, Prussian artillery officer
  • Gertrud (* 1861) ⚭ October 31, 1883 Adolf Claussen von Finck, German sea ​​captain
  • Johannes (* 1866), Prussian officer
  • Gottfried (* 1869), lawyer

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 57/146.
  2. ↑ On his social policy activities in the Ministry of Commerce, cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 . I. Department: From the time when the Empire was founded to the Imperial Social Embassy (1867–1881). Volume 3: worker protection. edited by Wolfgang Ayaß . Stuttgart / Jena / New York 1996, pp. 73, 151, 153, 157, 174, 178, 248, 299, 330, 333, 395, 406, 490, 545 f., 598, 601, 613, 653, 689 f ., 696 f., 701 f., 706, 723.
  3. ↑ The Reich Patent Office . In: Provinzial-Correspondenz . tape  15 , no. 28 , July 11, 1877, p. 2 ( amtspresse.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobi, Karl Rudolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German State Secretary in the Reich Treasury and Real Privy Council
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Jeggau
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1903
Place of death Zinnowitz