Wilhelm Karl Ferdinand von Schleinitz

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Wilhelm Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Schleinitz (born April 26, 1756 in Braunschweig , † February 12, 1837 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German lawyer and Brunswick State Minister.

life and work

Schleinitz attended the Brunswick Collegium Carolinum and studied law in Göttingen from 1774 to 1777 . He then received an education sponsored by Duke Karl I of Braunschweig in Wetzlar , Vienna and Regensburg . On November 2, 1780, he became a law firm in Braunschweig. On August 25, 1782, he was appointed Legation Councilor and resident at the Imperial Court in Vienna. He was appointed to the government council on July 14, 1789, and president of the government in Blankenburg (Harz) on January 15, 1798 . At the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1808 he became a judge at the Court of Appeal in Kassel and then President of the Criminal Court for the Saale Department in Halberstadt . After Duke Friedrich Wilhelm's return , von Schleinitz became President of the Appeals Commission and the Consistory in Wolfenbüttel on January 28, 1814. On February 7, 1815, he was appointed to Braunschweig as a privy councilor and member of the privy councilors' college and, in addition to his ministerial duties, also took over the presidium of the higher court of appeal that was jointly established in Wolfenbüttel on December 13, 1816 for Braunschweig, Waldeck and the two Lippe principalities. Retired by Duke Karl II on May 19, 1827 , after his resignation by Duke Wilhelm on October 7, 1830, he was reappointed President of the Consistory and on May 31, 1831 President of the Higher Appeal Court.

He had been married to Barbara von Hochstetter from Austria since 1789. Both sons were the Brunswick Minister Wilhelm von Schleinitz (1794-1856), the Prussian politician Julius von Schleinitz (1806-1865) and the Prussian Minister Alexander von Schleinitz (1807-1885).

literature

  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 523
  • Ludwig Ferdinand Spehr : Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Oels: A biographical monument , Braunschweig 1848, p. 276
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1913, p.702f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 523
  2. ^ Walter Kertz, Peter Albrecht: Technical University of Braunschweig: from Collegium Carolinum to Technical University, 1745-1995 , Georg Olms Verlag 1995, p. 81


personal data
SURNAME Schleinitz, Wilhelm Karl Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schleinitz, Wilhelm Carl Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1837
Place of death Wolfenbüttel