Ottokar Thon
Ottokar Thon (born April 18, 1792 , † March 16, 1842 ) was a German freedom fighter and ministerial official.
Life
Ottokar Thon was born as the son of the later secret councilor and government chancellor in the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach Christian August Thon (1755–1829) and Caroline, née Acorn, born. After graduating from high school in Eisenach in 1809 , he went to law studies at the universities of Jena and Heidelberg , which he completed in 1812. In 1810 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Jena and in 1812 of the Corps Saxonia Heidelberg.
At the beginning of 1813 he joined the Lützow Freikorps as a lieutenant to take part in the war of liberation against Napoleon . He fell into French captivity. At the end of 1813 he became adjutant to Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , whom he accompanied to the Congress of Vienna in 1814 . In 1815 he took part in the campaign against Napoleon under the Prussian flag.
From 1817 to 1819 Thon was a government trainee in the Prussian civil service in Erfurt , where he worked under Friedrich von Motz and Ludwig Bogislaus Samuel Kühne . In 1819 he returned to Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach as an assessor for the Weimar Chamber of Commerce, where he was appointed chamber councilor in 1821. Thon was already involved in exploratory talks at the German Customs Union in Berlin in 1828. In 1832 and 1833, Minister of State Ernst Christian August von Gersdorff served as an advisor in the negotiations of the Customs Union Treaty. In 1833 he was appointed legation and lecturer council in customs and trade matters of the Weimar finance department. From 1836 to 1841 he was the authorized representative of the Customs and Trade Association of the Thuringian States at all general conferences of the German Customs Association and was involved in the negotiations of the Customs Union Treaty in 1840 and 1841. After his death, his brother Gustav Thon was his successor as authorized representative.
Thon had been married to Therese Kirsten since 1821. The writer Helene Böhlau was her granddaughter.
Awards
- House Order of the White Falcon , Knight's Cross, 1833
- Order of the Red Eagle 3rd Class, 1833
- Knight of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , 1834
- Knight of the House Order of the Rautenkrone , 1834
- Commander 2nd Class of the House Order of the Golden Lion , 1834
- Knight of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order , around 1840
- Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class, 1841
- Commander of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
- Weimar Military Merit Medal
- Prussian war commemorative coin
literature
- Therese Böhlau, b. Thon (Ed.): Ottokar Thon. A picture of life . Böhlau, Weimar 1895
- Marko Kreutzmann: The higher officials of the German Customs Union , 2012, pp. 292–293 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Therese Böhlau, p. 1
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 127 , 90.
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 119a , 3.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thon, Ottokar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German freedom fighter and ministerial official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1792 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1842 |