Rudolf Meinecke

Rudolf Meinecke (born August 24, 1817 in Köslin ; † April 17, 1905 ) was an undersecretary in the Prussian Ministry of Finance.

Life

Meinecke studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the Albertus-Universität Königsberg . There he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Bonn and the Königsberger Corpslandsmannschaft Normannia . In 1839 he joined the judicial service of the Kingdom of Prussia as an auscultator . In 1841 he switched to internal administration as a trainee lawyer and was with the government in Danzig and the government in Magdeburg from 1845 . In 1848 he was appointed to the Prussian Ministry of Finance as an "unskilled worker" (a kind of scientific assistant ). Appointed to the government council in 1854 , he also acted as chairman of the income tax assessment committee in Berlin. In 1859 he became a lecturer in the Ministry of Finance, and in 1861 he was also a member of the Prussian State Debt Administration. From January 1865 to April 1866 he took part in the International Finance Commission in Copenhagen. In 1869 he became director of the general widow's catering establishment , in 1872 president of the finance department in Hanover and in October of the same year director (1879 undersecretary of state) of the budget and treasury department of the Prussian finance ministry. In 1889 he retired. He died at the age of 88 and was buried in Berlin's Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof I in front of Hallesches Tor . The grave has not been preserved.

↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 26/165; 142/45.
^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 226.

personal data
SURNAME	Meinecke, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meinecke, Johann Gustav Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German administrative lawyer and finance state secretary
DATE OF BIRTH	August 24, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koslin
DATE OF DEATH	April 17, 1905