Ministry of Finance of Württemberg

The Ministry of Finance of Württemberg (German: Finanzministerium Württemberg) was a ministry of the Kingdom of Württemberg, that existed from 1806 to 1919.

History

The position was also called the "Chief of the Department of Finance."

Kingdom of Württemberg

Upon the establishment of the Kingdom of Württemberg, King Frederick I dissolved all councils and created a constitutional monarchy within the German Empire, with four votes in the Federal Council (German: Bundesrat) and 17 in the Imperial Diet (German: Reichstag). The kingdom possessed a bicameral legislature with the upper chamber, (German: Standesherren), being appointed by the King and the lower house, (German: Abgeordnetenhaus), electing its own chairman (after 1874).^[1]

The highest executive power rested in the hands of the Ministry of State (German: Staatsministerium), consisting of six ministers: Justice, Foreign Affairs (with the royal household, railways, posts and telegraphs), Interior, Public Worship and Education, War, and Finance. There was no official Prime Minister in Württemberg until 1876, when the Mittnacht Government was reconsolidated. The Ministers who emerged as speakers in the State Parliament were generally regarded by their contemporaries as primus inter pares of the Ministerial Council, and the respective governments were named after these Ministers.^[2]

The kingdom ended with the abdication of King William II in November 1918, but the political system experienced no further convulsions of a serious character, with a constitution that resembled those of the other German states.^[3][4]

Finance Ministers

• 1806–1807: Ulrich Lebrecht von Mandelsloh
• 1807–1808: Ludwig Hellmut Heinrich von Jasmund
• 1808–1816: Ulrich Lebrecht von Mandelsloh
• 1816–1817: Christian Friedrich von Otto
• 1817–1818: Karl August Freiherr von Malchus
• 1818–1827: Ferdinand Heinrich August von Weckherlin
• 1827–1832: Karl Friedrich Eberhard von Varnbüler
• 1832–1832: Christoph Ludwig von Herzog
• 1832–1844: Johann Christoph von Herdegen
• 1844–1848: Karl Christian Gottlob von Gärttner
• 1848–1849: Adolf Goppelt
• 1849–1850: Johann Christoph von Herdegen
• 1850–1861: Christian von Knapp
• 1861–1864: Karl Friedrich von Sigel
• 1864–1891: Andreas von Renner
• 1891–1898: Karl von Riecke
• 1898–1908: Karl von Zeyer
• 1908–1914: Wilhelm von Gessler
• 1914–1918: Theodor von Pistorius

See

• Kingdom of Württemberg

References

1. Ashton, Bodie A. (12 January 2017). The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-1871. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-350-00008-7. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
2. Mulligan, William (2005). The Creation of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic, 1914-1930. Berghahn Books. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-57181-908-6. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
3. von Blume 1922, p. 1090.
4. Wiens, Gavin (28 March 2023). The Imperial German Army Between Kaiser and King: Monarchy, Nation-Building, and War, 1866-1918. Springer Nature. p. 278. ISBN 978-3-031-22863-6. Retrieved 24 April 2023.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: von Blume, Wilhelm (1922). "Württemberg". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 32 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. pp. 1089–1090.