The Ministry of Finance of 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 () and 17 in the Imperial Diet (). The kingdom possessed a bicameral legislature with the upper chamber, (), being appointed by the King and the lower house, (), electing its own chairman (after 1874).
The highest executive power rested in the hands of the Ministry of State (), 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.
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.
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
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