Ludwig Benedict Trede

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Ludwig Benedict (Bendix) Trede (born June 4, 1731 at the Grünhaus ( Kirchnüchel ) court; † December 30, 1819 in Eutin ) was a court official of the Principality of Lübeck and the Duchy of Oldenburg . He was also active as a philosopher.

Life

Trede was the son of the owner and later tenant Asmus Trede († 1733) and his wife Catharina Elisabeth born. Gribbohm (baptized 1696). From 1749 he studied law at the University of Kiel . After completing his studies, he entered the administrative service of the Principality of Lübeck . In 1759 he became secretary of the Privy Councilor Henning Benedikt von Rumohr , who was the chief minister of Prince-Bishop Friedrich August in the small state . Trede quickly made a career here and was initially appointed Cabinet Secretary and Chancellery Assistant with the title of Counselor in 1764 and promoted to Real Counselor in the Justice Chancellery in 1769. After the union of the prince-bishopric of Lübeck with the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst according to the Treaty of Tsarskoe Selo in 1773, the former prince-bishop's cabinet became the supreme authority and government center of the new duchy in the royal seat of Oldenburg . Trede again acted as cabinet secretary and formed the link between the sovereign Friedrich August, now Duke of Oldenburg, and the administrative apparatus. As a close associate of the conducting minister, Count Friedrich Levin von Holmer , he also had an influence on state policy. Trede's attitude was enlightened, reform-conservative and represented the principle of the state's duty of welfare towards its citizens, who were considered underage at the time. In this respect he was involved in the poor.

With the change of government in 1785 Trede kept his position under the new Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig . The monarch valued Trede as a tried and tested civil servant, as well as a conversation partner and even - taking into account the differences in class - as a friend, so that Trede supervised the ducal private fortune for years. With the occupation of the duchy by troops from the French Empire under Napoleon in 1811, Trede became a member of the government commission, which functioned as a kind of state ministry during the duke's Russian exile. At that time, your official seat was Eutin in the part of the Principality of Lübeck that was not occupied by the French.

As a highly educated civil servant with a wide range of interests, Trede was in close contact with the literary circles in Eutin and Oldenburg. He was a member of the Masonic Order of Virtue and Honor , was one of the founding members of the Eutin Masonic Lodge, the Golden Apple , in 1771 and served as its master of the chair until its dissolution in 1777 . He then joined the Oldenburg lodge Zum golden Hirsch . He also published some essays on Freemasonry.

Tredes continued to be interested in philosophy . As a follower of Immanuel Kant , he published some writings anonymously. His main philosophical work was the proposals printed in 1811 on a necessary language teaching , on which he had worked for almost thirty years. In this work, according to his biographer Hans Friedl, he attempted to build a bridge between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Kant, which he himself was apparently unaware of , in which he tried to establish the main features of a universal language behind the individual languages, known as the "alphabet of human thoughts" (Leibniz) should overcome the barriers to understanding.

Works

  • Conversation about morality and duty. Published in: Oldenburgische Blätter mixed content, Edition 5, 1793, pp. 273–297.
Reprinted in a revised and expanded version in: Irene. Edited by Gerhard Anton von Halem, Vol. 2, 1802, pp. 1-50.
  • Suggestions for a necessary language teaching. No location given (Hamburg), 1811. 2nd edition: Leipzig, 1816.
  • Correspondence between Prince Peter Friedrich Georg in Russia and the Judiciary Trede in Eutin. Published in: Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburgische Provinzialberichte, Volume 4, 1830, pp. 433–451.
  • Idea of ​​freemasonry. Printed in: Theodor Merzdorf : History of the Masonic Lodges in the Duchy of Oldenburg. Oldenburg, 1852, pp. 148-149.
  • Purpose of the Masonic Association. ibid., pp. 149-150.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ not: Grünhaus <Tönning>; see. Henry A. Smith (Ed.): Eutin - Heidelberg 1811. Correspondence between the student Ernst Hellwag and his family in Eutin , series: Eutiner Research Volume 11, Eutin State Library 2009, p. 186 ISBN 9783939643029
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Ludwig Theodor Merzdorf : History of the Masonic lodges in the Herzogthume Oldenburg. Oldenburg: Berndt 1852, p. 78
  3. ^ Hans Friedl: Trede, Ludwig Benedict. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 759 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Trede, Ludwig Benedict
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trede, Ludwig Bendix (original name); Trede, Ludwig Benjamin (wrong name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Oldenburg court official and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünhaus courtyard ( Kirchnüchel )
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1819
Place of death Eutin