Theodor Diederich von Levetzow

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Theodor Diederich von Levetzow. Portrait by Carl Canow , after 1860

Theodor Diederich von Levetzow , actually Theodosius Diederich von Levetzow , also Theodor Dietrich von Levetzow (born December 23, 1801 in Karnitz, now part of Neukalen ; † April 9, 1869 in Wiesbaden ) was a German administrative lawyer. From 1840 to 1848 and from 1857 to 1867 he was Minister of State in Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Life

Theodor Diederich von Levetzow came from the Mecklenburg prehistoric noble family von Levetzow . He was a son of the District Administrator Joachim Dietrich von Levetzow (1747–1810) on Karnitz (Neukalen) and his wife Christi (a) ne Elisabeth Caroline, born. von Oertzen (1769–1844; # 634), a daughter of Georg Ludewig von Oertzen (1716–1768; # 620) in Kittendorf from his third marriage.

After his father's death, his mother sent him to the Halle Pedagogy . From 1820 von Levetzow studied law at the University of Göttingen ; In 1822 he became a member of the Corps Vandalia. After his studies, von Levetzow was initially involved in knighthood self-government. He worked (1829) -1835 as a deputy of the knightly Wendish district , 1836-1837 as the district administrator of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Güstrow in the select committee . In 1837 Grand Duke Paul Friedrich appointed him President of the Chamber and Forestry College with the title Real Privy Councilor . With this he became head of the domanial administration, which is extremely important for the state budget of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . When Ludwig von Lützow became President of the Privy Council (Prime Minister) in 1840 , von Levetzow rose to become Second Minister.

Levetzow stuck to the tried and tested old man and, unlike von Lützow, was a fundamental opponent of any reform, rapprochement with the Kingdom of Prussia and even the railroad. On October 24, 1848, he resigned in protest against the new constitution for Mecklenburg-Schwerin . However, the Freienwalder arbitration award soon restored the old estates constitution, and on July 1, 1857 von Levetzow returned to the government as Minister of State for Finance. With the formation of the North German Confederation , which he had rejected , he was dismissed on July 1, 1867, but was still Grand Ducal Commissioner for the state parliament afterwards.

Levetzow owned the goods Lelkendorf and Karnitz (with Ludwigsdorf and Sarmstorf). In 1861 he inherited Groß Markow from his cousin Alexander von Levetzow . In 1868 he bought Passentin from his nephew Theodor Karl August Ernst von Blücher.

He died of a stroke while taking a cure in Wiesbaden . His body was transferred to Mecklenburg and buried in the Levetzow grave chapel of the Schorrentin village church.

Levetzow was married to Charlotte, b. from Oertzen. The couple had no biological heirs. Karnitz (with Ludwigsdorf and Sarmstorf) inherited H. von Levetzow, who passed the lieutenant colonel a. DH von Blücher auf Teschow bei Teterow , who however immediately sold it to Eugen Seip, and Groß Markow Theodor / Theodosius Vollrath Ferdinand von Levetzow (1811–1899).

Awards

literature

  • René Wiese: Orientation in the modern age: Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg in his time. (= Sources and studies from the state archives of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 8) Bremen: Temmen 2005, p. 93 (with portrait) u.ö.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the baptism entry of January 3, 1802, church book of the Johanneskirche (Neukalen) , accessed via ancestry.com on May 17, 2018
  2. ↑ Cf. Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Documentary history of the family von Oertzen . Vol. 6. Schwerin 1891, p. 164 ff.
  3. ↑ Götz von Selle : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen (1734-1837). 1937, p. 640, no.28.250
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1910, 87 , 143
  5. ^ Wiese (lit.), p. 70
  6. ^ Berthold Volz: Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin: a German princely life. Rostock: Hinstorff 1893, p. 81
  7. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1867, p. 211
  8. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1869, p. XXI
  9. ^ Archives for regional studies in the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg 20 (1870), p. 495
  10. ^ Weekly newspaper of the Johanniter-Ordens-Balley Brandenburg. 1869, p. 93
  11. ^ State and address manual of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg. 1869, p. 26
personal data
SURNAME Levetzow, Theodor Diederich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levetzow, Theodor Dietrich von; Levetzow, Theodosius Diederich von (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Karnitz, today part of Neukalen
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1869
Place of death Wiesbaden