Wilhelm Julius Ludwig von Schubert

Wilhelm Julius Ludwig von Schubert , ennobled 1812, (born January 11, 1755 in Helmstedt , † October 19, 1835 in Stralsund ) was a German lawyer and government official in Swedish Pomerania and Prussia .

Life

Wilhelm Julius Ludwig Schubert was a son of the theologian Johann Ernst Schubert (1717–1774) and Johanna Friderike Schulze (1729–1796). He was tutored in Helmstedt and from 1764 in Greifswald by private tutors before he attended the Greifswald city school from 1768 . Rector of the city school was Theophilus Coelestinus Piper at this time . In 1771 he began to study law at the University of Greifswald . In addition to his father, Andreas Mayer , Johann Georg Peter Möller , Franz Philipp Breitsprecher and Hermann Becker were among his teachers.

After the death of the father, the mother received an annual pension of 150 thalers for herself and her seven unsupervised children at the instigation of the Governor General of Swedish Pomerania, Fredrik Carl Sinclair . Payments from the widows' fund of the Greifswald professors and the sale of the father's library enabled the children to continue their education. From 1775 to 1777 Wilhelm Julius Ludwig studied, supported by scholarships and free meals, at the University of Göttingen , among others with Johann Beckmann , Georg Ludwig Böhmer , Georg Jacob Friedrich Meister , von Selkow, Spangenberg, Johann Stephan Pütter , August Ludwig von Schlözer , Johann Christoph Gatterer and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach .

Returning to Greifswald at Easter 1777, he began his practical career as a lawyer at Michaelis . After exams, he was admitted to the Greifswald court and to the Wismar tribunal . As a lawyer he could barely make a living. In 1786 he married the daughter of the postmaster Kriebel, after he had previously been authorized as postmaster himself. The now retired father-in-law continued to hold this position.

In 1794 , Eric Ruuth , the governor general of Swedish Pomerania and chancellor of the University of Greifswald, appointed him to the university's syndic . In 1796 he was awarded the title of Counselor of Justice. In 1805 he was appointed senior governor for Swedish Pomerania by King Gustav IV Adolf (Sweden) . In this office he was in charge of all judicial and administrative authorities in Swedish Pomerania. In 1806 he worked on behalf of the king on the introduction of the Swedish constitution , which however did not materialize because of the occupation of Western Pomerania by French troops. After the French withdrew, he was appointed to the government council in Stralsund in 1810. He was also president of the royal health college in Greifswald. The council was soon converted back to the government of Swedish Pomerania and Schubert was appointed first council.

During the third occupation of Swedish Pomerania by the French from 1812 to 1813, he was the only member of the government. His activities included the inauguration of general superintendent Johann Christoph Ziemssen in 1812 and court director Gustav Möller in 1813, visiting the women's pens in Bergen on Rügen and Barth and leading a commission to correct the border with Mecklenburg and clearing the Trebel river .

Charles XIII In 1812 he and his brother Ernst Konstantin raised him to the hereditary Swedish nobility. In 1813 he was awarded the North Star Order . When Swedish-Pomerania passed to Prussia , he was left in his office. In 1821 he was given the title of Government Councilor. In 1824 he was retired. The University of Greifswald awarded him the title of Dr. iur. In retirement he devoted himself to academic studies in history, law and political science. Since 1780 he belonged to the Freemasons .

His marriage to Beata Eleonore Christine Kriebel had seven children, of whom one son and four daughters survived the father. His son Friedrich Wilhelm von Schubert (1788–1856) taught theology at times at the University of Greifswald and was most recently superintendent in Altenkirchen (Rügen) .

literature

• New necrology of the Germans. Thirteenth year, BF Voigt, Weimar 1837, pp. 879–884 ( Google books ).