Wilhelm August von Rudloff

Half-length portrait of Wilhelm August von Rudloff with the Guelph Order ;
still unidentified engraver , around 1850

Wilhelm August von Rudloff (born August 24, 1780 in Hanover ; † December 20, 1854 there ) was a German lawyer , legation councilor and general post director of the Kingdom of Hanover . The knight of the Guelph order edited the Hanoverian state calendar for around a quarter of a century . Rudloff made a particular contribution to the standardization and modernization of the Hanoverian postal system .

Life

family

Wilhelm August Rudloff jun. was the son of the lawyer Wilhelm August Rudloff sen. , the brother of the historian Friedrich August von Rudloff .

For his son Otto Wilhelm Louis Georg Carl von Rudloff , the chief postal director made an prospectus possible in 1827 .

Career

The 1846 by Georg Egestorff delivered engine " Ernst August " was the opening of the route Hildesheim and to the first mailing used

The Kingdom of Hanover's first postage stamp was issued under General Postal Director von Rudloff

Wilhelm August Rudloff studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1797 to 1800 and then took up the position of auditor at the Hanover law firm . In the following year he was initially a consultant in 1801 , and from 1803 he was secretary in the Hanoverian cabinet ministry .

During the occupation by Napoleon Bonaparte's troops in the so-called “ French era ”, Rudloff was appointed General Post Inspector for the Kingdom of Westphalia under King Jérôme on October 5, 1810 . After both the city and the Electorate of Hanover were formally repossessed by his son Ernst August von Cumberland on November 4, 1813 for George III, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, after the Battle of Leipzig , Wilhelm August became Rudloff was responsible for the Hanover post office from November 16, 1813 . A little later, on February 8, 1814, Rudloff was appointed to the Hanover General Postal Directorate , and around two years later in 1816 he was appointed Legation Councilor.

After Rudloff had been awarded the Knight's Cross of the Guelph Order in 1819, the post office clerk also began editing the Hanover state calendar from 1823 (until 1848).

On April 9, 1824, Wilhelm August Rudloff was first appointed Chief Postal Director, on August 22, 1828, General Postal Director of the Kingdom of Hanover, and on May 10, 1838 raised to the nobility .

When, after much hesitation by King Ernst August from 1843, the railway as Hannoversche Royal State Railways has finally developed "exceptionally quickly," continued Postmaster General of Rudloff the web as early as 1846 and for transport of mail pieces one. Also in 1846 the entrepreneur had Georg Egestorff , the founder of the later Hanomag that as a steam engine powered the first locomotive "Ernst August" delivered to the state railway, with the route Hildesheim was opened.

Under von Rudloff, the first stamps of the Kingdom of Hanover were issued on December 1, 1850 .

See also

• Postal history and stamps of Hanover

literature

• Edgar Kalthoff (Hrsg.): Niedersächsische Lebensbilder , Volume 22 of the publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Hildesheim: Lax (1969), pp. 271-280
• Wilhelm Rothert : In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 , Vol. 2 of the series General Hannoversche Biography (in Gothic script ), Hanover: Sponholtz, 1914, p. 574
• Klaus Mlynek : RUDLOFF, (2) Wilhelm August von. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 301.
• Klaus Mlynek: Rudloff, (2) Wilhelm August von. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 527f.

Web links

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References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Klaus Mlynek: Rudloff, (2) ... (see literature)
2. ↑ Note: Deviating from this, according to the older Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon (see literature) , Rudloff was born in 1789, the year of the French Revolution
3. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Klaus Mlynek: RUDLOFF, (2) ... (see literature)
5. ^ Otto Mejer:  Rudloff, Wilhelm August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 473-477.
6. ↑ Archival document under the title Granting Expectances to Canonicals in the Male Founders of the Electorate or Kingdom of Hanover in the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hanover location) , archive signature NLA HA Hann. 92 No. 1042/1 (old archive signature XXXIV, IV 1 Vol. I )
7. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Napoleonic Wars. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 459f.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Railway. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 153–156
9. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Egestorff, (1) George. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 104; online through google books