Ludwig von Golther

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Carl Ludwig Golther , von Golther from 1868 (born January 11, 1823 in Ulm , † September 17, 1876 in Stuttgart ), was Württemberg Minister.

Life and work

Ludwig von Golther attended the Ulm high school. From 1841 to 1844 he completed a law and philosophy degree in Tübingen . He then entered the state justice service, in 1847 he became court actuary in Künzelsau , and in 1850 senior judicial assessor in Ellwangen . In 1851 Golther was appointed to the replacement commission at the Department of the Interior in Stuttgart as a councilor. In 1856 he became an assessor in the upper government, in 1858 he became a senior councilor at the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior. When Gustav von Rümelin resigned in 1861 because the representatives of the estates rejected the concordat he had drafted with the Vatican, Ludwig von Golther was appointed to the state council and was appointed head of the department of church and schooling in the Kingdom of Württemberg and was appointed real minister in September 1864 .

He succeeded in resolving the controversial question, which failed Rümelin, in 1862 through the law on the relationship between the state and the Catholic Church of January 30, 1862. Golther promoted the teaching system in particular by improving the economic situation and the official position of elementary school teachers, carrying out advanced training, drawing and gymnastics lessons in town and country, the establishment of the Realgymnasium in Stuttgart, the organization of the Polytechnic as an academic institution and the establishment of the natural science faculty of the University of Tübingen . In 1867, Golther was also given the presidency of the Secret Council .

On March 23, 1870, he resigned all his offices, since he had joined the Greater German Party and, together with his friend Schäffle, opposed the alliance with Prussia . This was followed by his appointment as President of the Evangelical Consistory , and in 1872 he was entrusted with the central management of the Württemberg charity.

Golther was a member of the Ulmia Tübingen regional team .

Honors, ennobling

In 1865 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Frederick and in 1868 the Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , which was associated with the personal title of nobility . The University of Tübingen awarded him an honorary doctorate for Dr. rer. nat., the cities of Stuttgart and Weil der Stadt made Golther an honorary citizen.

Works

  • The state and the Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Württemberg. Stuttgart 1874.
  • Modern pessimism . Leipzig 1878.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg. 1866, p. 58
  2. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg. 1872, p. 28.