Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Reden (* March 23, 1752 in Hameln, † July 3, 1815 in Michel village in the Giant Mountains), was a Silesian mining administrator, a Prussian chief mining as well as ministers.
Life
Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden came from the noble family of speeches which was very connected to mining. His father was Johann Ernst Wilhelm von Reden (1727-1767) Owner of the Manor at Hameln and Bennigsen, as well as royal British and Electoral brunswick - lüneburgischer Councilor. His mother was Sophie von Reden ( 1732-1754 ). After his mother's death, his father married in 1758 Sophie Kiepe († 1759). In 1761 he married Sophie of Zerrsen.
Between 1770 and 1773 speeches studied in Göttingen and Halle ( Saale). After passing the state examinations as executive officer, he traveled through Holland, England and France to get to know the local mines and metallurgical plants. At the Freiberg he began studying the mineralogy and geology at Abraham Gottlob Werner.
In 1777 he entered the Hanoverian civil service, but was soon called by Heynitz to Berlin in the mining department. As the Silesian Mining Office of Reichenbach was moved in the Owl Mountains back to Breslau in 1779, Heynitz provisionally appointed him his authority. Speeches was in 1795 appointed Captian.
In October 1786 he was appointed to the Privy Oberfinanzrat and elevation to the rank of count by Friedrich Wilhelm II on the occasion of the coronation of the monarch.
Talking led the Heynitzsche mine reform in Silesia by the owner. Under his leadership, it came in Upper Silesia establishing new ironworks, such as the Friedrich Hut, King Hut and the Gliwice Steelworks. Talking led the Cast Iron in Upper Silesia. The mining of ore and coal reached a new flowering in Silesia. In Tarnowitz the Friedrich mine was, in the coal mining area it was the pits King and Queen Louise. In the Upper Silesian mining the first steam engine was introduced in 1788 in Tarnowitz and 1789 started in the huts with attempts to fire the blast furnaces with coke. 1796 went to Gleiwitz, the first coke blast furnace in operation in Europe.
Besides upgrading the operating systems led speeches measures to improve transport paths through the construction of roads and canals. For the training of qualified Steiger built speeches Mountain School in Tarnowitz. 1802 speeches was appointed to succeed his uncle as Prussian chief mining and Head of Mining and Metallurgy Department in Berlin. 1803 he was appointed Minister mine.
After the Napoleonic occupation of Prussia, the Minister of speeches was the looting of the mines and cottages by the French, thereby preventing he remained in office. Because of the work done by speeches on 9 November 1806, the French occupying power oath he was on 9 July 1807 by Frederick William III. dismissed from his ministerial position without pension claims.
Talking spent his life in the evening on the Hirschberg Valley ( Jeleniogórska Valley ) located Good Buchenwald ( Bukowiec ), which he had acquired in 1785. In 1788 he acquired a number of villages in the county of Glatz from the repealed Glatzer Jesuit College. Since 1802, he was married to Friederike Baroness Riedesel, the marriage remained childless. Shortly before his death, built by speeches Buchenwald Bible Society, which was expanded by his wife to a social welfare organization.
Honors
- Speeches in honor were named the speech hut in Zabrze and other mining facilities and roads in Silesia
- On the speech mountain in Chorzow a monument to him in 1852 set, the question after 1922 and after 1945,
- 2002 speech mountain monument was inaugurated again
- The Saarland mine speeches was named after him
- The Company German smelters and miners donated for the 25th anniversary of the Technical University of Wroclaw in 1935 as an award for especially good theses of mining and metallurgical engineers speeches plaque; it is awarded since 1948 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, Resource and Environmental Technology