Wilhelm Erdmann Florian von Thielau

Thielau monument by August Howaldt in the Brunswick cathedral cemetery .

Lower Sick Manor (today: Sickte Manor)

Wilhelm Erdmann Florian von Thielau (born May 19, 1800 at Gut Niedersektiven , † November 12, 1865 in Braunschweig ) was a German civil servant and politician.

Life

Thielau studied from 1816 at the Bergakademie in Freiberg and then law at the University of Göttingen and entered the Saxon civil service as a mining auditor in 1820 . In 1823 he switched to the ducal-Braunschweig civil service. In 1824 he took over his father’s estate in Lower Sick and resigned from civil service in 1828. In 1830 he gave up the management of the estate and in 1832 became finance advisor in Braunschweig. In 1835 he was promoted to Ministerialrat, from 1837 he headed the building department. In 1842 he became director of the state mining and steel works. In March 1848 he was appointed Finance Director of the Duke of Brunswick. In April he was appointed to the Committee of the Fifties and from June 1848 was also the Duchy's envoy to the Frankfurt National Assembly .

From January 15 to May 20, 1849, Thielau was Stolle's successor as a member of the National Assembly for Holzminden , where he was part of the casino faction . After the failure of the National Assembly, he took part in the Gotha post-parliament .

In 1850 he was a member of the Erfurt Union Parliament , in the same year Thielau became President of the Finance, Tax and Customs Administration in Braunschweig and represented the Duchy at the Zollverein . From 1852 until his death he was also a member of the Brunswick state assembly .

Fonts

• About common material interests in the German federal state. C. Krebs-Schmitt, Frankfurt / Main around 1848.
• Joint production tax on salt and beet sugar in Germany. Friedrich Vieweg and son, Braunschweig 1851. ( digitized version )
• The Zollverein Germany and the crisis with which it is threatened . Friedrich Vieweg and son, Braunschweig 1862. ( digitized version )

literature

• Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , p. 336.
• Wolfgang Frühauf: City Director Wilhelm Bode and Finance Director von Thielau. Two upright Brunswickers and the diamond duke . In: Braunschweigischer Kalender. Meyer, Braunschweig 1990 ISSN  0343-0316 , pp. 65-66.
• Elke Schlueter: Thielau, Wilhelm Erdmann Florian von . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 606-607 .
• Paul Zimmermann :  Thielau, Wilhelm Erdmann Florian von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 746-750.

Web links

• Writings by Thielau on onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu