Karl von Zeyer

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Karl Georg Wilhelm Zeyer , from 1893 von Zeyer , (born September 19, 1839 in Esslingen , † January 1, 1920 in Stuttgart ) was a Württemberg civil servant and minister of state.

Life

Karl Zeyer was the son of the lawyer Friedrich Matthäus von Zeyer (1797–1876), who rose to the position of President of the Württemberg State Court, and Emilie Ferdinande, daughter of the State Councilor von Huber and a member of the Protestant Church . Karl Zeyer had a total of four siblings. He finished his high school in 1857 with the high school diploma in Ulm . He then completed a six-month apprenticeship in the law firm of the court notary in Ulm. From 1858 to 1861 Zeyer studied law at the University of Tübingen and during this time joined the Staufia association. In 1862 he passed the first higher judicial service examination and the second the following year. He started his career as a judicial referendar at the Oberamtsgericht in Ulm. As a judicial assessor , he became an assistant in the law firm of Wilhelm Schall in Öhringen in 1864 . In 1866 he moved to the higher district court in Brackenheim and in the same year became a district judge at the city court in Stuttgart. In November 1869 he was able to fill the post of district judge at the district court in Stuttgart. In 1871 he married Marie Krauss. The marriage remained childless.

Career

In June 1873, Zeyer joined the tax committee and worked there first as a legal advisor , then as an assessor and finally as a lecturing council. From 1878 he worked in the domain management and from 1880 in the department of finance (Württemberg Ministry of Finance). There he became chief finance officer in 1882. Another stage in his career was membership in the Disciplinary Court in 1886. In 1887 Zeyer became director of the cadastral commission and advisor in the Ministry of Finance, in 1891 ministerial director and in 1894 president of the colleges. Since 1891 he had a mandate for the Württemberg Chamber of Landlords , which he voluntarily surrendered on March 22, 1898 when he was appointed Minister of State in the Department of Finance. As Minister of Finance, Zeyer succeeded the late Karl von Riecke and was a member of the Mittnacht , Schottenstein , Breitling and Weizsäcker governments before he retired in 1908.

Honors

  • 1893 Commentary Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , with which the personal nobility was connected.
  • 1903 Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown
  • 1903 Dr. oec. publ. hc from the University of Tübingen

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 1069 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1894, p. 31.
  2. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1907, p. 31.
personal data
SURNAME Zeyer, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeyer, Carl Georg Wilhelm von (full name); Zeyer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg civil servant, finance minister
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1920
Place of death Stuttgart