Ludwig Daniel Le Coq

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Ludwig Daniel Le Coq (baptized February 4, 1756 in Berlin ; † March 7, 1816 there ) was a Prussian war councilor, senior judge and secret councilor.

Life

Origin and family

Ludwig Daniel was a Huguenot and a member of the Le Coq family , which originally lived in Metz . The grandfather Jean Le Coq (1669–1713) came to Germany as a refugee . He is a direct descendant of Toussaint Le Coq, who married Jeanne Doron in Metz in 1565.

The son of Jean, the businessman and director of tobacco production Paul Le Coq (1703–1769), is the father of Ludwig Daniel. His mother is Marianne Fizeau (1715–1769). His stepbrother from Paul's marriage to Anne Jordan is the merchant and director of the Berlin sugar refinery Charles Le Coq (1736–1814).

In November 1794, Le Coq married Marie Wilhelmine, a daughter of the Privy Council and director of the Berlin City Court, Friedrich Christian Buchholz. In 1805 he married Charlotte Müller from Wohlau.

Obviously he had children because he and his children bought an estate. Nothing more is known about this.

education

Nothing is known about his schooling. From autumn 1774 to 1777 he studied law at the University of Halle .

Career

Then he applied as a trainee lawyer at the Supreme Court and passed the test with good success and was accepted in 1778. In the summer of 1780 he became a secret secretary in the cabinet ministry and in 1782 was appointed to the council of the French high court in Berlin.

From August 1783 he was the expeditionary secretary in the Secret State Chancellery, received the title of war councilor and worked for the expedition for Pomerania .

In the spring of 1783, at the suggestion of the Minister of State and Justice, Wolfgang Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dörnberg (1724-1793), he received the patent as a Privy Councilor at the French Higher Directory (Conseil français), which handles the general affairs of the French colony with the exception of justice - and consistorial matters.

From 1791 he was a lecturer in the Cabinet Ministry with the title of Secret Legation Councilor.

In 1799 he received permission to buy a noble estate for himself and his children in the Kurmark, but was a part-time councilor at the French Upper Consistory and the French Revision College, which was responsible for reviewing decisions by the French courts. The Minister of Justice Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeyer (1735-1811) valued him as an excellent useful official .

After the occupation of Berlin in 1806, after the king of the fled to Memel, Le Coq was adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs August Friedrich Ferdinand Graf von der Goltz as the Prussian Legation Councilor 

The Prussian tax officer Heinrich von Béguelin , whom the king had called in as an advisor, had met Ludwig Daniel Le Coq (the "elder") during the deliberations and judged him in his memoirs

“Mr. Le Coq of the French Colonie, an honest and upright man with sound judgment and great diligence, does not have any deep knowledge at the moment, but he is very modest, agile and very discreet. He is short, extremely ugly, and looks like a tailor; none the less he got three pretty women one after the other, two of whom died. "

Le Coq had suggested to the king, who had fled to Memel , that his brother Prince Wilhelm should go to Paris as envoy extraordinary in order to negotiate to end the oppression of Prussia by Napoleon. Johann August Sack , the chairman of the Immediate Commission for the implementation of the Tilsit Peace , wrote to Le Coq after the unsuccessful attempt at mediation, wishing that relations between the farms could be improved.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Béringuier : Family trees of the members of the French Colonie in Berlin , 1885, p. 31 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officers 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 558 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Karl Heinrich Sack : Negotiations regarding the introduction of the Prussian religious edict from 1788. In: Journal for historical theology. In connection with the historical-theolog. Ges. Zu Leipzig ed. by Christian Friedrich Illgen, Volume 29, 1859, p. 7 ( google books digital ). 
  4. ^ Ludwig von Rönne: The constitutional law of the Prussian monarchy, containing the first department of administrative law, 3rd edition, 2nd volume, first department, 1871, p. 54 ( google books digital ).
  5. ^ Hoepke, Klaus-Peter, "Goltz, August Graf von der" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 6 (1964), p. 628 f. [Online version]; URL: digital
  6. ^ Adolf Ernst: Memories of Heinrich and Amalie von Beguelin from the years 1807–1813. Along with letters from Gneisenau and Hardenberg. Chapter From the Tilsiter Peace to the End of 1808 , Berlin, p. 133 ff online version and online version (on p. 135 he refers to the “younger” Le Coq with which Paul Ludwig Le Coq (1773-1824) is obviously meant, the but knew Béguelin only superficially)
  7. ^ Herman von Petersdorff: Wilhelm. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 43 (1898), pp. 171–177 ( online version ).
  8. ↑ Jürgen Luh: The short dream of freedom: Prussia after Napoleon , 2015, ISBN 978-3-641-15835-4 ( ebook, digital reading ).
personal data
SURNAME Le Coq, Ludwig Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Supreme Court Councilor, War Councilor and Privy Legation Councilor
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1816
Place of death Berlin