Werner von Watzdorf

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Minister of State von Watzdorf ( Karl Mediz , 1895)

Werner Rudolf Heinrich von Watzdorf (born December 19, 1836 in Dresden ; † February 29, 1904 there ) was a German Minister of State and Finance in the Kingdom of Saxony.

Life

Werner von Watzdorf comes from the ancient Thuringian nobility . His father was Rudolph Friedrich Theodor von Watzdorf , owner of the manors Störmthal and Liebertwolkwitz .

He attended the St. Augustin high school in Grimma from 1850 to 1855 . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Leipzig . From 1856 he was a member of the Corps Misnia Leipzig . Gustav von Metzsch and Artur Odescalchi were active with him. In 1868, he married Rosa Clara Freiin von Könneritz (1823–1906), sister of his predecessor in the office of Finance Minister Léonçe Freiherr von Könneritz and daughter of the Saxon ambassador Hans Heinrich Graf von Könneritz on the manor Erdmannsdorf . From 1895 he was Saxony's finance minister. As a result of the cost explosion in the construction of the Chemnitz Valley Railway , he had to resign in 1902. Died at the age of 63, he was buried in the Johannisfriedhof (Dresden) .

Honors

See also

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1902, p. 873.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonas Flöter and Marita Pesenecker: Education for the Elite. The Princely and State Schools of Grimma, Meißen and Schulpforte around 1900 . Publication for the exhibition in the district museum Grimma. Leipzig 2003, pp. 95-96, ISBN 3-937209-33-6
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 151/141
  3. ↑ Todtenschau . Dresdner Geschichtsblätter, No. 4, 1904, p. 286.
personal data
SURNAME Watzdorf, Werner von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Watzdorf, Werner Rudolf Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon Finance Minister
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 1904
Place of death Dresden