Finanz-Unterstaatssekretär Rudolf Meinecke: Letter Berlin 1882, Over Control

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You are bidding on one signed letter the Undersecretary of State in the Prussian Ministry of Finance Rudolf Meinecke (1817-1905).


Dated Berlin, 2. March 1882.


Addressed to an unnamed “Excellence”, probably the German ambassador to Spain or the Spanish ambassador to Germany? At the top left there is a receipt in Spanish (dated 3. March 1882); In addition, the legation secretary del Arco is mentioned at the beginning, di Ludwig Aloys von Arco auf Valley (1845-1891), third class embassy secretary at the Prussian legation in Madrid.

The German ambassador to Spain at this time was Eberhard zu Solms-Sonnenwalde (1825-1912); The Spanish ambassador to Germany was Francisco Merry y Colom (1829-1900).


Regards the sending of instructions regarding those applicable in Prussia (partly also Schleswig-Holstein, Hannvor and Hesse-Nassau). Steer (Class tax, property and building tax).


Signed "Most devoted Meinecke Undersecretary of State."


Format: 28.5x22.7cm; without envelope.


Condition: Paper heavily stained/water stained; Paper with creases and corner tear in the fold. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Kiefer 23-12 autograph

OverRudolf Meinecke (Source: wikipedia):

Rudolf Meinecke (*24. August 1817 in Köslin; † 17. April 1905) was an undersecretary in the Prussian Ministry of Finance.

Life: Meinecke studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the Albertus-Universität Königsberg. There he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Bonn and the Königsberg Corpsland team Normannia. In 1839 he joined the judicial service of the Kingdom of Prussia as an auscultator. In 1841 he moved to the internal administration as a trainee and had been with the government in Danzig and the government in Magdeburg since 1845. In 1848 he was appointed as an “auxiliary worker” (a kind of scientific assistant) in the Prussian Ministry of Finance. Appointed to the government council in 1854, he also served as chairman of the income tax assessment commission in Berlin. In 1859 he became a lecturer in the Ministry of Finance, and in 1861 he also became a member of the Prussian State Debt Administration. From January 1865 to April 1866 he took part in the International Financial Commission in Copenhagen. In 1869 he became director of the General Widows' Catering Institute, in 1872 president of the finance directorate in Hanover and in October of the same year director (1879 undersecretary) of the budget and cash department of the Prussian Ministry of Finance. In 1889 he retired. He died at the age of 88 and was buried in Berlin's Trinity Cemetery I in front of the Halleschen Tor. The grave has not been preserved.

Honorary positions and honors

Representative to the Federal Council (1873)

Really Go. Council (1881)

Member of the Prussian State Council (1884)

President of the Prussian Disciplinary Court for non-judicial civil servants (1888)

Member of the Imperial Disciplinary Court (1889)

Life: Meinecke studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the Albertus-Universität Königsberg. There he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Bonn and the Königsberg Corpsland team Normannia. In 1839 he joined the judicial service of the Kingdom of Prussia as an auscultator. In 1841 he moved to the internal administration as a trainee and had been with the government in Danzig and the government in Magdeburg since 1845. In 1848 he was appointed as an “auxiliary worker” (a kind of scientific assistant) in the Prussian Ministry of Finance. Appointed to the government council in 1854, he also served as chairman of the income tax assessment commission in Berlin. In 1859 he became a lecturer in the Ministry of Finance, and in 1861 he also became a member of the Pru
Erscheinungsort Berlin
Region Europa
Material Papier
Sprache Deutsch
Autor Rudolf Meinecke
Original/Faksimile Original
Genre Recht
Erscheinungsjahr 1882
Produktart Handgeschriebenes Manuskript