Ludwig Heinrich Melchior Hofmeister

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Ludwig Heinrich Melchior Hofmeister (* December 8, 1805 in Springe ; † March 13, 1885 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was an Oldenburg secret councilor , responsible for questions of agriculture and dyke construction .

Life

Hofmeister was the son of the municipal clerk Georg Christian Melchior Hofmeister (1774–1845) in Springe and his wife Sophie Charlotte nee. Meyer († 1868). In protest against the annexation of the Electorate of Hanover by Prussia, the father resigned in 1806 and left the electorate. With the help of his brother Christian Heinrich (1771-1813), the personal physician of Duke Peter I of Oldenburg , he found a job in the Oldenburg civil service and became an assessor at the rent chamber of the Principality of Lübeck in Eutin and a member of the ducal property administration in Holstein . Ludwig Hofmeister attended the grammar school in Eutin and studied law and political science at the University of Göttingen from 1825 to 1828 . In 1829 he passed the first state examination and then worked for a short time as a lawyer in Eutin. In 1830 he entered the Oldenburg state service and was initially an auditor at the offices of Tetten and Abbehausen . After the second state examination, which he passed in 1835, he was assigned to the dyke department of the government in Oldenburg as an unskilled worker and was appointed government secretary in 1837 . The following year he took over as bailiff to manage the Office Abbehausen, where he took care especially around the dike system and the agricultural issues that arise from the conversion of march economy from grain farming were to livestock. In 1850 he was transferred to the government in Oldenburg and appointed to the government council, and in 1862 he was promoted to the senior government council. Hofmeister took care of all matters relating to agriculture as well as cattle and horse breeding and was also involved in the completion and introduction of the new dyke regulations from 1855. After the abolition of the government college in the course of administrative reorganization in May 1869, he became a lecturer in the Department of the Interior and in 1872 received the title of Privy Higher Government Council. On October 1, 1879, he retired after more than 50 years of service.

In addition to his official work, Hofmeister played a leading role in the Oldenburg Agricultural Society, which was founded in 1818 based on the Hanoverian model . In 1837 he was elected 2nd secretary , in 1852 chairman and in 1859 president of the society, which he led until his death. He reorganized the company, founded the Landwirtschafts-Blatt for the Duchy of Oldenburg in 1852 and came out with several publications on dykes and horse breeding . Since 1850 he was also a member of the Oldenburg literary and sociable society .

family

Hofmeister had been married since 1838 to Elise Wilhelmine, born in a family of civil servants in Ratzeburg . Prehn (1820–1902), daughter of the conference councilor Johann Friedrich Prehn.

Works

  • The dike tape of the Stad and Butjadinger country and its interested parties in 1849. Oldenburg. 1849.
  • Report on a trip to the province of Groningen in the autumn of 1869, for instruction on the treatment and utilization of the street excrement of the city of Groningen and the bog colonies of the province. Oldenburg. 1869.
  • Messages about the Oldenburg heavy carriage horse. Oldenburg. 1874. 2nd edition: 1883.
  • Horse breeding in the Duchy of Oldenburg 1583–1884. Oldenburg. 1884.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hofmeister, Ludwig Heinrich Melchior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German secret government councilor
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Jump
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1885
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)