Wilhelm von Steuber

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Christoph Heinrich Wilhelm Steuber , from 1817 of Steuber , (born December 29, 1790 in Kassel ; † July 6, 1845 there ) was a Hessian statesman and diplomat .

Life

Origin and family

Wilhelm came from a middle-class family. His parents were the Hessian registrar at the court marshal's office and court court registrar in Kassel as well as inspector of the Charité Institute Johann Friedrich Adolf Steuber and Katharina Margaretha Louise Lyncker.

His first marriage was in 1817 with Friederike Dorothea Auguste Klingender (1792–1820), daughter of the theologian Jean Frederic Klingender (1747–1829) and Wilhelmine Ernestine Friederike Tischbein (1759–1820). In his second marriage, Steuber married Friederike Auguste Countess von Hessenstein (1795–1855) in 1824 .

The first marriage was the daughter Anna Ottilie (1818–1855), who married the then Prussian major Karl von Heister (1799–1878). The second marriage resulted in a son and four daughters, including Angelika von Steuber (1828–1866), married to Friedrich Arnold von Ameluxen (1816–1864).

Career

Steuber attended the Lyceum Fridericianum in Kassel from 1800 to 1807 . He then completed a law degree in Marburg and, from 1809, in Göttingen . He began his civil service career in the Westphalian financial and tax services. As early as 1812 he was the bureau chief in the General Directorate of Public Education.

During the Wars of Liberation , in which he actively participated, he was promoted to Second Lieutenant on December 18, 1813, and from January 1814 was adjutant in the regiment . From April 1815 he was a staff captain in the Hessian general staff . After the end of the war, he resumed his work as an assessor with a vote at the tax committee in November 1815. In January 1817 he was promoted to the tax council. At the same time he remained in the military as a quartermaster lieutenant and was since April 9, 1821 as captain adjutant of the electoral prince , whom he accompanied on his trip to Switzerland .

From April 1, 1825 to 1833, Steuber was a major chargé d'affaires at the electoral embassy in Dresden . Here in 1832 and 1833 he was also authorized representative of the Electorate of Hesse for customs negotiations in Berlin. From November 4, 1831, he acted as a secret legation councilor as well as extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister at the Saxon and Prussian courts. Finally, from March 29, 1833 to 1839, he was in the same position as a state councilor at the Austrian court. On April 30, 1839 he became the Hessian Foreign Minister .

Steuber was a member of the Hessian Order Commission from 1840 to 1845, at times also President . From 1842 to 1845 he worked as the main director of the Prince Georg Foundation in Kassel. He owned an estate in Ellerbach .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Gender Book . Volume 54, Starke Verlag , Görlitz 1927, p. 378.
  2. ↑ Customs Union Treaty, especially columns 5-6 and p. 38.
  3. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815–1963, Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer. Saur, Munich 2001, p. 246.
  4. ↑ Electoral Hessian Court and State Handbook , Kassel 1840, p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Steuber, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steuber, Christoph Heinrich Wilhelm von (full name); Steuber, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessian statesman and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1845
Place of death kassel