Hermann von Stengel

Hermann Guido Leopold Freiherr von Stengel ( born July 19, 1837 in Speyer, Rhenish Palatinate, † 1919) was a Bavarian civil servant, politician and German State Secretary in the Treasury of the German Empire.

Study and career

He was born the son of the Palatinate Government President Carl Albert Leopold von Stengel and Julia Magdalena Catharina Franziska von Meyer and baptized on July 21, 1837 in Speyer.

After studying law, he entered the civil service of the Kingdom of Bavaria. He was Regierungsassessor 1874 in Würzburg. In 1881 he was Deputy Ministerial and as such authorized representative to the Federal Council in Berlin. This office he held until his appointment to the State Council of sixteen years.

State Secretary in the Treasury and the weakness of the national finances

On 23 August 1903, he was then in place of Max Franz Guido von Thielmann State Secretary in the Reich Treasury.

In subsequent years it came increasingly to a weakening of the imperial finances, which eventually became a permanent structural crisis. The liquor laws of 1898 and 1900 had to be financed, the use of German troops during the Boxer Rebellion in China paid, the Army outbreaks of 1893, are 1899 and 1905 covered at least 613,000 man full strength during his tenure and the increase in military pensions.

Beset by the rising cost of armor he has now developed in 1906, a measure which caved scheme of the existing federalism and demanded a kingdom inheritance tax, to higher excise taxes. However, the measures could not achieve the desired success, so that the national debt grew from 3 billion marks in 1904 to 4 billion mark in 1908.

On February 20, 1908, he was replaced as Secretary of State by Reinhold von Sydow.

For family see also: The Lords of stem

Publications

• The basic relief in Bavaria. Würzburg 1874