Stephan Josef Stephan

Stephan Josef Stephan (born February 29, 1772 in Fritzlar , † January 5, 1844 in Braunfels ) was the highest Solms-Braunfels official and royal Prussian district administrator in the Braunfels district .

Life

family

Stephan Josef Stephan was the son of the administrator Ordinis Teutonicae Johann Hermann Stephan and his wife Maria Elisabeth nee Schott. Stephan Josef Stephan, who was a Protestant denomination, married Sophie Albertine Wilhelmine Kehrer (born July 3, 1768 in Erbach im Odenwald; August 19, 1849 in Braunfels), the daughter of Landcommissarius Kehrer from Erbach, in Braunfels on October 31, 1802 .

Career

Stephan Josef Stephan attended high school and from 1789 studied law at the University of Marburg . From August 31, 1793, he initially worked as a lawyer in Marburg, before joining Solms-Braunfels on January 1, 1795. There he was first an official assessor at the Princely Justice Office in Braunfels and was then taken over into the Princely Administration. On January 2, 1796 he was cabinet secretary, on April 12, 1800 cabinet counselor and finally on December 17, 1812 chamber director and Solms-Braunfeldischer Privy Council .

The Prince of Solms-Braunfels was mediatized with the Rheinbundakt 1806 . After the negotiations at the Congress of Vienna , the former Principality of Solms-Braunfels became Prussian and in 1816 became part of the Braunfels district in Prussia. Stephan Josef Stephan was now - in addition to his work for the prince - the first royal Prussian district administrator in this district. In fact, he took up this position as district commissioner from April 1816. The swearing-in on the Prussian king took place on October 15, 1816, on January 16, 1817 he was appointed district administrator.

On October 1, 1820, he was released from the office of district administrator at his own request and Friedrich Felix Furkel succeeded him as district administrator. As a reason for his resignation, he stated the incompatibility between the office of Prussian district administrator and Solms-Braunfels chamber director.

In long negotiations, the prince succeeded in reaching an expansion of the civil authority with Prussia . In 1828 the Princely Solms-Braunfels government was formed, which performed these administrative tasks and also acted as a patrimonial court of second instance. Stephan Josef Stephan became the government director of this government. In addition, the government consisted of the two government councilors of Gruben and Medical Councilor Dr. Hero. In 1837, the prince applied to the royal high presidium to grant government director Stephan the title of district president. The Upper Presidium of the Rhine Province rejected this request. Nevertheless, in a letter dated May 16, 1838, the king approved the title of "Princely Solms-Braunfels President" for Stephan. After Stephen's death in 1844, Hofmann was his successor.

literature

• Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 786 .
• Max Bär: The Authorities Constitution of the Rhine Province, 1919, reprint 1965, p. 213.