William Barstow by Guenther

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William Barstow Guenther , from 1881 by Guenther , (also Günther ; born March 8, 1815 in London , † September 13, 1892 in Thun ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer. He was the chief president in Poznan.

Life

He studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , where he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . After graduating, he took over the internal administration of the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1843 he became an unskilled worker in the government in Magdeburg and in 1849 a councilor in Stettin . From 1854 he was walking. Finance Councilor and member of the General Management of the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation . Günther became a walker in 1859. Oberfinanzrat appointed. Since 1863 he was Ministerialdirektor in the Prussian Ministry of Finance with the rank of real. Go Oberfinanzrat with the title of Excellence . Since 1867 he was an authorized representative to the Federal Council (German Empire) . In 1870 Günther was appointed President of Maritime Trade . Between 1873 and 1886 he was President of the Province of Poznan . Otto von Bismarck finally urged him to resign. Günther had been a member of the Prussian manor house since 1872 . On June 15, 1881, he was ennobled by Wilhelm I and raised to the Prussian nobility. Since 1886 he wore the Grand Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern .

With Klara Jebens (born June 26, 1828, † April 4, 1912) married, he was the father of the Silesian President Hans Lauchlan von Guenther and the daughter Helene (1856-1933), who married Alexander von Seydlitz-Kurzbach .

literature

  • Hartwin Spenkuch (arr.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 7. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim, 1999, ISBN 3-487-11004-0 , p. 390. ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Acta Borussica . New series )
  • William Barstow by Guenther. A picture of life , special reprint from Volume VIII of the Journal of the Historical Society for the Province of Posen.
  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses , 1910, p. 258 .

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1910, 19 , 87.