Rudolph von Wechmar

Rudolph von Wechmar (born March 15, 1800 in Meiningen ; † March 5, 1861 ibid) was a German minister of state in Saxony-Meiningen.

Life

Rudolph von Wechmar studied law at the University of Jena . In 1821 he was one of the founders of the Corps Franconia Jena . As a manor owner, he sat in the Meiningen state parliament from 1830 . In 1835 he was appointed president of the state government in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . From 1842 he worked at the Hildburghausen Higher Regional Court. After the reorganization of the central state authorities in the course of the German Revolution of 1848/49 , Bernhard II (Sachsen-Meiningen) replaced the liberal Minister of State Hanns Carl Wilhelm Haubold von Speßhardt , who had been appointed to appease the people, on October 24, 1849 by the strictly conservative Wechmar. In the shadow of the influential camarilla around the President of the Court of Appeal Karl von Fischern , he held the office until May 12, 1854. He retired in 1855 and died shortly before his 61st birthday.

See also : Wechmar (noble family)

literature

• Friedrich Facius : The Thuringian states (lists of ministers). In: Klaus Schwabe (Ed.): The governments of the German medium and small states. 1815–1933 (= German leadership classes in modern times. Volume 14 = Büdinger research on social history. Volume 18). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1983, ISBN 3-7646-1830-2 , p. 282.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 74/3
2. ↑ Katharina Witter: Rudolph von Wechmar. In: Kuratorium Meiningen (Hrsg.): Lexikon zur Stadtgeschichte Meiningen , Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008. ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .