Conrad von Studt

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Konrad von Studt

Heinrich Conrad von Studt (born October 5, 1838 in Schweidnitz , Lower Silesia , † October 29, 1921 in Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official in the Kingdom of Prussia . Most recently he was Prussia's minister of culture .

Life

Conrad Studt as a corps student

As the son of a lawyer , Studt studied law and political science for six semesters at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . He was a member of the Corps Borussia Breslau (1856) and Saxonia Bonn (1857). As a reserve officer in the 3rd Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 50 , he fought in all three wars of German unification . As a second lieutenant in the German War , he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, IV class with swords, for his bravery in Bohemia .

Studt entered the Prussian judicial service after studying at the district court of his hometown Schweidnitz. In May 1867 he moved to the internal administration as district administrator of the Obornik district ( Posen province ). There he married the daughter of the Oborniker manor owner Witte . When he left after nine years in 1876, the grateful German-Polish residents of his district presented him with a silver centerpiece. Then in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, he worked as an unskilled worker and department head on many bills. In 1882 he returned as District President of the administrative district of Koenigsberg back into the practical management service. He then was from 1887 to 1889 Undersecretary of State in the Ministry for the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine under the governor Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst .

After he had been President of the Province of Westphalia for ten years from 1889 , Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed him in 1899 as Minister of the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs . Studt took particular care of the denominational schools and suggested the establishment of technical universities in the eastern provinces of Prussia . In 1907 he left the ministry and was appointed to the Prussian manor house .

assessment

Carl Fürstenberg claimed in his memoirs that Studt looked like the face of Kaiser Wilhelm I. This perhaps not unfounded remark about an illegitimate descent from the Hohenzollerns may be based on gossip and rumors ; because nothing of the kind emerges from the surviving personnel files. Studt was by no means patronized by King Wilhelm I, but worked his way up to high positions in the Prussian state apparatus through his own efforts.

Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst characterized Studt in a letter to Prince Philipp zu Eulenburg dated December 2, 1895 as follows: "An excellent official, but not a statesman and (a) moderate speaker." The only daughter of Konrad Studt, born around 1870, married the Prussian Officer and later Lieutenant General Paul von Drabich-Wächter .

Honors

literature

  • Klaus Schwabe (Ed.): The Prussian Oberpräsident 1815–1945 (= German ruling classes in modern times. Vol. 15 = Büdinger research on social history. 1981). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1985, ISBN 3-7646-1857-4 .
  • Studt, Konrad von (1906) . In: Werner Hartkopf:The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992,ISBN 3-05-002153-5, p. 353.
  • Jürgen W. Schmidt: Konrad (v.) Studt - Undersecretary of State in the Ministry for Alsace-Lorraine from 1887 to 1889. (describes Studt's life and career on the basis of the received personal file). In: DerWesten 59th vol., Heft 1/2 (2012), p. 9f. ISSN  0179-6100 .
  • Rainer Paetau / Hartwin Spenkuch (edit.), Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (ed.): Acta Borussica , Volume 6 / II: The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38 , p. 716.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 18 , 450; 16 , 195
  2. ^ The life story of a German banker 1870–1924 . Berlin 1931, p. 507 f.
  3. ↑ According to this source, Martha was born on September 6, 1869.
  4. ^ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001. (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class , Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class , Volume 3, Volume 50.) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3 -525-82516-1 , p. 236.
  5. ^ General Order Commission (ed.): Royal Prussian Order List 1905. Second supplement from February 1, 1906 to January 31, 1907. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1907, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Studt, Conrad von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Studt, Heinrich Conrad von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and ministerial official, Minister of Education in Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweidnitz , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1921
Place of death Berlin