Combined Immediatkommission
The Combined Immediatkommission was a reform group set up by Prussia's king at the time of the Napoleonic occupation of Prussia.
background
In 1804 appointed as Minister of Finance and Economics to the General-Ober-Finanz-War- und Domainen -dirium , Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein pointed out necessary reforms in Prussia early on . Because of alleged stubbornness and selfishness, he was of Friedrich Wilhelm III. - who had fled from Berlin to Königsberg - released on January 3, 1807. In February 1807 Friedrich Wilhelm fled to Memel . After the Peace of Tilsit , Stein's successor, Karl August von Hardenberg , also had to leave at the request of Napoleon Bonaparte . Convened by the King in July 1807, the Combined Immediatkommission was supposed to work out the planned reorganization of Prussia. Without Stein and Hardenberg, it initially consisted primarily of officials in Königsberg Castle :
- Theodor von Schön , go. State Council
- Friedrich August Staegemann , go. Oberfinanzrat
- Karl Wilhelm von Schrötter , Chancellor
- Friedrich Leopold von Schrötter , Minister for East Prussia
- Hans Jakob von Auerswald , President of the Chamber
- Ernst Gottlob Morgenbesser , Director of the East Prussian Government
- Wilhelm Anton von Klewiz , Go. Oberfinanzrat
In August 1807, the Commission took a law to free the farmers from the development of serfdom and the land ownership and trade of all feudal bonds - the foundation of the whole work of reform. Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein and Barthold Georg Niebuhr returned from Riga in September and joined the group. In Memel the king entrusted Stein with the management of all civil affairs. He entrusted him with the further implementation of the reforms as chairman of the Immediatkommission. As the first reform, the October Edict came into force on October 9, 1807.
See also
- Friedrich Wilhelm III. (Prussia) # Foreign policy until 1807
- Klaipėda City Hall
- Battle of Jena and Auerstedt
source
- The Stein-Hardenberg reforms in Memel and Königsberg , in: Wulf D. Wagner , Heinrich Lange: The Königsberg Castle. A building and cultural history . Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-1953-0 , pp. 146–147.