Wilhelm von Grote

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Wilhelm Freiherr Grote , completely Wilhelm Heinrich Andreas Christian Freiherr Grote (born March 1, 1785 in Hanover ; † January 14, 1850 in Braunschweig ), was a German administrative lawyer and Oldenburg regional president of the Principality of Lübeck .

Life

Jühnde Castle

Wilhelm Grote came from the Lower Saxon noble family of lords , barons and counts Grote , who belonged to the primeval nobility in the Principality of Lüneburg . He was the eldest son of the landowner and later Hanoverian minister Otto Ulrich Freiherr Grote (1750–1808), Lord of Jühnde and Horn, and his wife Charlotte (1757–1821), née. from Plato . The Oberbergrat Carl Grote was his younger brother. After attending grammar school in Bremen , he studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1802 to 1805 , where Johann Friedrich Herbart was his tutor .

In 1805 he joined the state service of the Electorate of Hanover as an auditor . After the Hanoverian defeat against France and the establishment of the Kingdom of Westphalia , Grote changed in the summer of 1808 as a government assessor in the service of the Oldenburg Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig . The latter appointed him chamberlain ; In 1809 he was part of the ducal retinue at the wedding of Prince George (1784–1812) in Saint Petersburg .

In 1811 he went into exile to St. Petersburg with Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig, but came back at the end of the year and went to the family estate of Schloss Jühnde near Göttingen . With the return of the duke at the end of 1813, Grote also returned to Oldenburg and was promoted to the government council. In December 1813 he became a member of the Provisional Government Commission, which coordinated the reorganization of the government and administration. In 1816 he was appointed bailiff of the Delmenhorst office.

After Grand Duke August ascended to the throne , on December 31, 1829, he was appointed to the post of government president of the Principality of Lübeck, which had been vacant since the death of Hans Albrecht von Maltzan in 1825. In the revolutionary year of 1848 his position became untenable. He asked for his release, which had been requested several times at popular meetings. In addition, he was apparently not prepared to remain in office after the introduction of the constitution he had rejected . On October 13, 1848, he left office.

He spent his retirement on his Wedesbüttel estate, which he inherited in 1816 (today part of Meine ).

Since 1810 he was with the German-Baltin Julie Dorothea Louise, b. Married Freiin von Rahden (1789–1858). The couple had five daughters and two sons.

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SURNAME Grote, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grote, Wilhelm Freiherr; Grote, Wilhelm Heinrich Andreas Christian Freiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and Oldenburg regional president of the Principality of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1850
Place of death Braunschweig