Ludwig von Helmolt

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Carl Christian Ludwig Friedrich von Helmolt (born June 23, 1769 in Bilzingsleben , † January 12, 1847 in Erfurt ) was a Prussian district administrator .

Life

Helmolt came from the von Helmolt family of Göttingen and was the son of the chamberlain and manorial estate owner Carl Friedrich von Helmolt († August 9, 1805 in Bilzingsleben) and his wife Louise Christiane Wilhelmine Magdalena Sophie nee. von Wangenheim († September 18, 1785). In 1816 he took over provisionally and in the following year finally the office of district administrator in the newly formed Eckartsberga district of the Prussian province of Saxony . He held this office until 1839. In 1819 he was one of the founders of the first history association founded in Thuringia. The constituent meeting took place on his manor in Bilzingsleben.

His brother was Franz Ernst Christian von Helmolt (born March 18, 1777 in Bilzingsleben), who was in Prussian service as Prime Lieutenant in 1806.

literature

  • Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945 , series A: Prussia, volume 6: Province of Saxony. edit by Thomas Klein, Marburg / Lahn 1975, p. 111.
  • Helmolt. In: Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 2nd year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1908, pp. 457–462, especially p. 458
  • Frank Boblenz : The "Association for Research into Patriotic Antiquity in Art and History". Thuringia's first history association was founded in Bilzingsleben in 1819. In: Heimat Thüringen 18 (2011) H. 1, pp. 23–31. ISSN  0946-4697