Siegmund von Meyer
Friedrich Siegmund von Meyer (born September 11, 1807 in Kassel ; † October 22, 1888 there ) was a German lawyer and politician.
Life
Von Meyer was the son of the President of General Control and later Finance Minister Friedrich Siegmund von Meyer (1775–1829) and his wife Charlotte Friederike von Schmerfeld (1776–1855), the daughter of the Hessian government director Johann Daniel von Schmerfeld. In 1832 he married Charlotte Schlarbaum (1809–1882), the daughter of the government procurator Schlarbaum. The marriage resulted in a son and three daughters.
He attended the Lyceum Fridericianum in Kassel from 1822 to 1825 and studied law from 1825 to 1829. in Marburg and Göttingen . In 1829 he became a trainee lawyer and in 1833 an assessor. From 1839 to 1843 he was a senior judge in the Kassel Higher Court , at the same time he was an extraordinary consultant from 1836 and from 1841 provisional lecturer in the Ministry of Justice. In 1843 he became Legation Councilor with a lecture in the Foreign Ministry, from 1846 also Lecturing Council in the Secret Civil Cabinet and for appeals and conflict matters in the State Ministry as a whole.
In 1848 he was briefly entrusted with the oversight of the Foreign Ministry, after which he was again a consultant in the Foreign Ministry. In 1849 he became a secret councilor with a lecture in the Ministry of Justice, from 1851 also in the secret cabinet. In 1851 he became a secret legation councilor with a lecture at the Foreign Ministry, where he was also the secretary of the minutes. From 1855 he was representative of the foreign minister and from 1856 foreign minister and head of the entire state ministry.
Between 1859 and 1864 he was put on hold at his own request. In 1864 he became envoy to the Electorate of Hesse in Paris, and in 1865 envoy and plenipotentiary at the court in The Hague. In 1866 he represented the Electorate of Hesse for the sick Georg von Heßberg in the Bundestag . After the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia, he lived from 1866 to 1888 as a private person in Kassel and on his estate in Wolfsanger. Together with Rohe he was the executor of the will of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I.
In addition to his work in the civil service, he was one of the directors of the lending and commercial bank in Kassel from 1833 to 1835 and 1842 to 1859 . He was the savior of the bank when he provided it with additional liquidity during the insolvency with a substantial payment from private assets. From 1850 to 1853 he was a member of the pension institution for widows and orphans and in 1851 of the order commission. He was the founder of the infant care facility with Bernhardis and was one of its administrative directors for more than 50 years.
Awards
- Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class
- Commander's Cross 1st Class of the House Order of the Golden Lion
literature
- Karl-Heinz-Nickel, Harald Schmidt, Florian Tennstedt , Heide Wunder : short biographies . In: Kassel as the city of lawyers and the courts in their thousand-year history. Edited by Georg Wannagat , Heymann, Cologne a. a., 1990, ISBN 978-3-452-21555-0 , pp. 466-467, (PDF file; 12.8 MB)
Individual evidence
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George von Schmerfeld (1821–1823) | Friedrich Ludwig von Witzleben (1823–1830) | Friedrich Christoph von Schmincke (1830) | Ferdinand Carl Wilhelm Heinrich von Schenck zu Schweinsberg (1830–1831) | Johann Christian Wiederhold (1831–1832) | Gerhard Heinrich von Motz (1832–1848) | Moritz Ernst von Baumbach (1848–1850) | Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug (1850–1855) | Siegmund Friedrich von Meyer (1855-1859) | Conrad Abée (1859–1862) | Jacob Arnold Carl von Dehn-Rotfelser (1862–1863) | Conrad Abée (1863–1866)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Siegmund von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Siegmund Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1888 |
| Place of death | kassel |