Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell

Heinrich Eduard Flottwell since 1861 by Flottwell ( born July 23, 1786 in Insterburg, East Prussia, † May 28, 1865 in Berlin) was a royal Prussian Minister of State and President of the Province of Brandenburg.

Education and career start

Flottwell studied in Königsberg, the rights and began after his doctorate in law. in February 1805 the High Court Auskultator Insterburg a legal career. After Assessorexamen Flottwell Court of Appeal Assessor was in Königsberg. In 1808 he was assessor at the Higher Regional Court in Insterburg, 1812 Government and counsel for the government in Gumbinnen 1816 Oberpräsidialrat ( under Schön) in Gdansk.

Oberpräsident various provinces and Minister

1825 Flottwell government president in Marienwerderstraße and proven in the management of these plagued by natural disasters government district. In December 1830 at the outbreak of the Polish November Revolution in Warsaw, was Flottwell President of the Province Posen. In this difficult position he remained until May 1841. He promoted the development of the province and wanted to win the peasants and the weak Polish citizenship by material benefits and training opportunities and simultaneously curb the influence of the Polish nobility and the Catholic clergy. Its economic and cultural measures had a positive impact on the formation of a middle class. In the Polish clergy in particular pushed his school policies on rejection.

1840 Council with the title " Excellency " appointed privy, he was transferred to Magdeburg in 1841, the President of the Province of Saxony and appointed in 1844 to head the Treasury Department. In 1846 he resigned to take over as chief Minister managing the province of Westphalia. After the revolution of 1848 he was elected in a district of the province of Saxony in the Frankfurt National Assembly, where he (Café Milani ) belonged to the faction of the extreme right. In 1849 he was elected from a constituency in Poznan in the first chamber of the Prussian Landtag. 1849/50, he headed the provisional administration of the province of Prussia. In August 1850 he took over as chief Minister managing the province of Brandenburg. In October 1858 he was appointed Prussian Minister of the Interior. On June 3, 1859, he laid for reasons of age this office and resumed his former role as President of the Province of Brandenburg. The end of 1862 he retired.

Honors

With award of the Black Eagle Flottwell was raised on 18 October 1861 in Königsberg, the Prussian nobility. Since 1844, he was an honorary citizen of Magdeburg. Flottwell was awarded his 50-year anniversary with an honorary citizen of the city of Berlin. For his services in the time of the great fire, he was also an honorary citizen in Hamburg.

One of his sons was the officials and elected representatives Adalbert of Flottwell.