Staatsminister Adolph From Harbou: Letter Gera 1869, Scholarship for K. A.

You are bidding on one letterof Princely Ministry in Gera, Department of Church and School Affairs.

Dated Gera, 19. January 1869.

addressed to the stud. legal Karl August Brendel from Saalburg, currently in Leipzig.

Karl August Brendel (born 21. August 1848 in Saalburg) fell on 3. December 1870 in the Franco-Prussian War in Chelles near Paris dby a careless shot by a comrade while walking down the country road. Previously he had taken part in the Battle of Gravelotte. He fought in the Royal Saxon Rifle Regiment No. 8, which he had not entered until 1870, and was buried at Chelles.

"His Highness the Prince has given you a Saalburg scholarship for the current year in the amount of 30 rth. -- deign to lend. The accountant of the scholarship fund, Rendant Melhorn zu Saalburg, has been provided with the corresponding payment order."

Signed "Harbou", di the Minister of State (head of government) Adolphe of Harbou (1809-1877).

With countersignature "Semmel", ie probably the administrator and politician Moritz Semmel (1807-1874), district administrator in the district of Gera.

Prince from 1867 was Heinrich XIV. (Reuss younger line) (1832-1913).

About the scholarship (Source: G. Brückner: Volks- und Landeskunde des Fürstenthums Reuss jL, Gera 1870, p. 304, category "University scholarships"): "Two Saalburg scholarships for Saalburg and Lobensteiner or also other local children annually to two students of 30 Thlr each. Originally there was only one grant; the endowment of the second came about by the highest decree of Prince Heinrich LXVII. from 13. January 1866 and is granted from the accumulated interest of the Salzburg scholarship fund."

Scope: a page of text written on half a page, two blank pages, an address page (33.8 x 20.3 cm).

Format (folded): 9.2x17 cm.

Condition:paper browned and somewhat stained; the seal is missing, with a tear due to opening. BPlease note also the pictures!

Internal note: Karlshorst 221204

About Adolph von Harbou and Moritz Semmel (source: wikipedia):

Andreas Paul Adolph von Harbou (* 3. February 1809 in Copenhagen; † 24 June 1877 in Gera) was a German politician.

Family: Harbou was a son of the chamberlain and Rendsburg customs administrator Friedrich Hans Walter Harbou (1765-1832) and his wife Anne Marie Callumore nee Prætorius (1777-1844). Danish Major General Johannes Harbou was his brother. On 20. On June 1, 1836 he married Joachime Sophie Anna Mathilde Hensen (* 7. April 1815 in Schleswig; † 6 April 1887 in Gera). The marriage produced 13 children.

He lived until he was 16. He lived in Copenhagen for years and then moved to Rendsburg with his family, where he passed his Abitur. From 1828 to 1832 he studied law at the Universities of Kiel, Berlin, Göttingen and Kiel. He then became an assessor at the Obergericht Gottorf. With the administrative reform of 1834, the separation of jurisdiction from administration was introduced in the Duchy of Schleswig. Harbou opted for the administrative side and became office manager in the Schleswig-Holstein government at Schloss Gottorf, where he was appointed to the government council in 1846. In 1847 he received the Order of the Dannebro (Knight).

During the Schleswig-Holstein survey on 24. The Provisional Government was formed in March 1848. This appointed Harbou and Paul Henning von Rumohr as plenipotentiaries of the provisional government for Schleswig. From August 1848 to 1851 he worked as a department head in the Kiel Ministry of the Interior and later the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He remained in office under the Common Government and Lieutenancy. From 1848 to 1849 he was President of Flensburg and held the position of mayor there. He was also a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state assembly. He was elected for the constituency of Schleswig 19 (Husum).

After the end of the uprising and the restoration of Danish rule, Harbou was among those politicians who were explicitly denied amnesty (and the Order of the Dannebrog revoked) in the patent for the Duchy of Schleswig concerning amnesty. He therefore had to leave his homeland and was under Duke Bernhard II. from Saxe-Meiningen from 12. May 1854 to September 1861 Minister of State in the government of the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. From 1866 until his death he was Minister of State (head of government) of Reuss younger line. A street laid out in 1892 in Gera's old town (part of Florian-Geyer-Straße since 1950) was named Harboustraße in his honor.

Carl Moritz Semmel (* 27. March 1807 in Gera; † 20 March 1874 ibid) was a German civil servant and politician.

Life: Semmel was the son of the merchant Karl Friedrich Marcus Semmel and his wife Emilie Caroline née Kraneschitz. His sister Natali became known as a cookbook author under the pseudonym Emma Allestein. He was Evangelical-Lutheran and married on 14. January 1842 in Leipzig Agnes Eleonore Josephine Fleischer (* 12. January 1824 in Leipzig; † 8th. December 1843 in Gera), the daughter of the bookseller and city councilor Friedrich Fleischer in Leipzig.

Semmel studied political science and law and completed his studies with a doctorate (Dr. legal away. After his studies he was from the age of 30. May 1832 first Baccalaureus juris with admission as a lawyer at the lower courts of the principality. on the 10th In October 1834 he became an actuary at the Gera Judicial Office, where he was temporarily also acting director. From 1837 to 1841 he worked as a city syndic in Gera. After that he was a clerk at the Gera-Untermhaus Judicial Office until 1842. For the 1st In July 1863 he was appointed head of the Department for Voluntary Jurisdiction at the Judicial Office in Gera. From the 7th From September 1864 until his retirement in 1871 he was district administrator in the district of Gera.

In addition to these activities, he was a member of the court of competence from 1865, district director of the Land-Feuersocietät in 1870 and chairman of the district committee in the Gera part of the country.

From the 10th November 1851 to 16. From July 1853 he was a member of the Reuss state parliament of the younger line.

awards

Council of Justice (1843)

Privy Council of Justice (1863)

Princely Civil Cross of Honor 1st Class (1858)

Princely Gold Cross of Honor (1873)