Oluf de Schouboe

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Oluf Schouboe , De Schouboe, Oluf Borch de Schouboe, (born June 5, 1777 in Bergen , † December 21, 1844 in Stockholm ) was a Norwegian politician.

Life

His parents were the monastery official, budget counselor Christian de Schouboe (1737–1789) and his wife Anna Magdalena Müller (1751–1785). On January 6, 1799, he married in Hillerød (Denmark) Frederikke Dorothea Christiane von Munthe af Morgenstierne (May 8, 1773– June 18, 1835), daughter of the monastery magistrate Caspar Wilhelm von Munthe af Morgenstierne (1744–1811) and his wife Anna Cathrine Petra Flindt (1750-1814).

Schouboe belonged to a family of officials who had risen under Danish absolutism. His grandfather was knighted in 1747. His family retained their title of nobility even after the nobility was abolished by law of 1821. His daughter died in 1901 as one of the last Norwegian nobles. The male line died out with the death of his only son in 1892.

He grew up in Bergen and received his first lessons at home. In 1795 he passed the examen artium in Copenhagen . In 1801 he passed the legal state examination there. With his very good final grades, the civil service career was open to him. He immediately became Byfogd in Nykøbing , Byfogd in Helsingør in 1806 and bailiff in Stavanger in 1810 . In 1812 he was appointed bailiff in Kristiansand and bailiff in Nedenes and Råbyggelaget. In 1815 he moved to Lister and Mandal in this position . In 1806 he was awarded the title of Chamber Councilor and Chancellery and in 1807 he became a Real Counselor.

During the Napoleonic Wars there was famine in Sørlandet because of the English blockade. Schouboe opened the state's granaries. He started a private grain company, but that company lost 14 loads to British blockade ships in one week .

During the short period of Norwegian independence in 1814, Schouboe stood behind Prince Christian Friedrich . After his election as king, Schouboe was appointed chamberlain. Until 1836 he remained a bailiff and monastery administrator in Kristiansand. When Christian Friedrich abdicated in the autumn of 1814 and the union with Sweden was achieved, he was loyal to the new government and to Karl Johan . In 1836, against the vote of the other members of the government, he became a state council without a special portfolio. Schouboe replaced the popular Jonas Collett , who no longer had the trust of the king. As a State Councilor, he was often in the State Council Department in Stockholm. In addition, he headed the Ministry of Churches, the Ministry of Revisions and the Ministry of the Army in various periods. He and Minister of State Frederik Due negotiated with the Swedish government about the Øresund customs, without involving the Norwegian government in Christiania. This led to a state crisis that led to both of them being tried before the Reichsgericht. Gradually he became more and more conservative and was a determined opponent of local self-government. He also received economic support from the king and was considered a royal lakai. The governor Count Wedel considered him incompetent and described him as "complete nullity". The general perception became that he was a good bailiff but not fit for a councilor. Even the conservative newspaper Den Konstitionelle pointed out the difference between “Staatsrat” and “Staatsmann”.

Honors

In 1813 he received the Dannebrog Order , in 1815 he became the commander of the Swedish North Star Order , in 1832 its commander 1st class and in 1844 received the Grand Cross from Oskar I.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The "Examen artium" was the regular entrance examination to the university, in this case the University of Copenhagen, which required knowledge of Latin and Greek. So it corresponded to the Abitur, but was accepted by the university until 1883.
  2. ^ "Byfogd" was a single judge in places where there was no collegial court.
  3. ↑ The bailiff was the chief civil servant in his area of ​​responsibility.
  4. ↑ Råbyggelaget was called the inland area of ​​Agder ( Setesdal and the inner places of Aust-Agder ) in the late Middle Ages and early modern times . The Fylke Aust-Agder was previously called "Nedenes og Raabyggelagets Amt".
  5. ↑ Chamber Councilor was already a purely honorary title at that time.
  6. ↑ At that time the chancellery was already a purely honorary title and meant a lower class of rank at court.
  7. ↑ “Real Judicial Councilor” meant that he actually exercised an office in the administration of justice beyond the honorary title of “Judicial Councilor”.
  8. ^ "Council of State" was the official title for most ministers in Norway.
  9. ↑ The Reichsgericht was a special court that was responsible for misconduct in the office of government members and judges at the Supreme Court.
  10. ^ Yngvar Nielsen: de Schouboe, Oluf Borch . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 15 : Scalabrini – Skanke . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1901, p. 269 (Danish, runeberg.org ).

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personal data
SURNAME Schouboe, Oluf de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schouboe, Oluf Borch de; Schouboe, Oluf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountains
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1844
Place of death Stockholm