Peter Ernst Anton Heumann

Peter Ernst Anton Heumann (born May 16, 1823 in Wildeshausen ; † June 17, 1902 in Oldenburg ) was a German administrative lawyer and from 1890 to 1900 Minister of Finance for the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .

Life

Heumann's father was the head of the Wildeshausener deaf-mute institution Hermann Friedrich Heumann (1796–1881). Heumann attended high school in Detmold and studied law in Göttingen and Heidelberg . He began his career in 1850 as an auditor and was appointed as an official assessor in 1853 . In 1854 he came to the Grand Ducal Chamber as an unskilled worker , where he served as a chamber assessor from 1857 and as a chamber councilor from 1863 . In 1869 he was appointed lecturer in the State Ministry , Department of Finance, in 1873 he was promoted to the Upper Chamber Council and in 1879 to the Upper Finance Council. In 1883 he was appointed chief customs director and in 1884 the secret chief finance councilor, and in 1890 he was appointed minister to the head of the department of finance. In August 1900 he resigned because of previous differences with Grand Duke Friedrich August, like the other two ministers Günther Jansen and Georg Flor , and was given retirement.

family

Since 1856 Heumann was with Emma Sophie geb. Fuhrken (1833–1915) married, the daughter of a businessman and chamber assessor in Varel . One son, Carl, became a forest adviser, the daughter Helene Hermine Sophie married the President of the Higher Administrative Court Karl Jakob Christian Dugend (1847-1919).

literature

• Peter Ernst Anton Heumann. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 309-310 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Ernst Anton Heumann in the catalog of the German National Library