Philip of Pestel
Philipp Pestel (from 1786/87 von Pestel ) (born October 11, 1767 in Minden ; † July 9, 1835 at Haus Unterbach ) was an official first in Prussian service, then in the service of the Kingdom of Westphalia and later again in Prussian service. Most recently he was President of the Rhine Province .
Life
He was the son of Carl Philipp Pestel († 1791) and Johanna von Kotzebue . The father was a royal Prussian war, tax and domain councilor in Minden and was raised to the Prussian nobility on November 20, 1786 with a diploma from January 3, 1787 in Berlin.
Pestel was from 1792 to 1807 war and domain councilor in Paderborn and Minden. After the founding of the Kingdom of Westphalia, he was Prefect of the Weser Department in 1808 . He then became general manager of the kingdom's public treasury.
After the Wars of Liberation , Pestel was initially a war and domain councilor and director of the government council of the Berg general government in 1814 . On July 3, 1815, he was appointed a secret war council and became the Prussian organization commissioner for the Moselle region in Koblenz . On January 10, 1816, he was then organizational commissioner for the Düsseldorf administrative region . Between 1816 and 1831 Pestel was President of the District in Düsseldorf. Between 1831 and 1834 he was President of the Rhine Province.
From 1829 to 1831 he was founding chairman of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia .
literature
- Minutes of the Prussian State Ministry, Volume I p. 386 Digital copy (PDF; 2.6 MB)
Web links
- Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Short biography. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- Short biography of the Düsseldorf district
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels-Lexicon Vol. 7, 1867, page 105 digitized
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, page 282, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISBN 3-7980-0819-1 .
- ↑ Short biography with photo ( memento of the original from April 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Westfälische Forschungen , Provinzialinstitut für Westfälische Landes- und Volkskunde (Ed.), Verlag Aschendorff, 2005, page 182 ( excerpt )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Pestel, Philipp von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pestel, Philipp |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Westphalian and Prussian officials |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1767 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Minden |
DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1835 |
Place of death | House Unterbach |