Heinrich of Stephan (* 7 January 1831 in Stolp/Pommern; "† 8 April 1897 in Berlin) was a director of general post office of the German Reich and supervisor of the German postal service.

Biografie

Already as pupils of the Stolper of High School Heinrich Stephan was noticeable by unusual gift. He took the maturity examination prematurely and with best notes. Besides it had learned violin and piano to play with a private music teacher and controlled the music instruments soon better than its teacher. With good achievements Heinrich Stephan was noticeable also in its training place at the Stolper post office, so that he, provided with an excellent certification, came 1849 as an official candidate to Marienburg. One year later he was already a post office assistant in the regional directorate Danzig. After doing its one year's service at the Prussian army it was shifted after a short intermediate play with the citizen of Berlin general post office to Cologne for regional directorate. Here he had to do mainly with the treatment of overseas post office calculations, and the first ideas for the standardization of the international Postverkehrs probably developed. 1855 locked Stephan its training finally with completing the examination to the higher postal service, likewise again with honor. Subsequently, it returned to the general post office Berlin, where it was promoted in the long run 1868 to secret upper post office advice. During the time north Germans of federation of the dressed Heinrich Stephan the office of a director of general post office, after the establishment of the German Reich one appointed him 1880 only the undersecretary of state of the realm post office and 1895 the Minister of State. In these positions it was responsible for the organization of the German postal service. Fast it recognized the weaknesses of the apparatus, which had to suffer first still from splintering of the realm. After it had combined the different institutes for territorial post office under the roof of the realm post office, it ensured for the fact that by reforms and innovations the post office became modern Dienstleistungsinstitut. It introduced the post office privilege and the secrecy of letters, provided for a uniform cheap letter and parcel postage and invented the postal order and the postcard. 1875 it attached the Telegrafenwesen of the post office and connected all important cities of Germany with Telegrafenkabeln. Between 1877 and 1881 he developed its telephone "the telephone network in Germany under the foreign exchange "each citizen. The today still existing German post office museum in Berlin was created 1872 by Stephan. Only with its draft for a postal savings bank law it failed 1885 to Reichstag. Heinrich of Stephan (it had been ennobled 1885) provided also for social progress at the realm post office. On its initiative for the officials of post office an accident, an ill and an old-age pension were introduced and those about 2000 under its line established post-office building again with modern and appropriate work spaces were equipped. The most important historical achievement of Heinrich of Stephan is however the creation of the Universal Postal Union. By its diplomatic fate it succeeded to it to unite on 15 September 1874 post office representatives from 22 states to the first international congress of post office in Berne. From "the general post office association created there "later "the Universal Postal Union "developed, to which at the end of the century except China all important states of the earth belonged. With it it succeeded to introduce to the international Postverkehr uniform standards and diminish separatist obstacles. Until 1891 was Heinrich of Stephan a president of the Universal Postal Union. A heavy diabetes illness and one thereupon effected Beinamputation set 1897 an end for the untiring work. Heinrich of Stephan succumbed to its illness on 8 April 1897. With much splendor and under large sympathy of the public he was buried at the citizen of Berlin Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof.

Honours

Apart from the collection into the nobility by emperors Wilhelm I., already mentioned, lent to it the university resounds for its scientific publications 1873. After its death one established in the light hall of the post office museum created by him a monumental monument (into the 1950er years on go-eat the GDR guidance destroyed), and in many German cities roads and places after him was designated (Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Hamburg, Bonn, Chemnitz, Freiburg). Cities lent the honour citizenry to it such as Cologne, Dortmund and Schwerin). Before the main post office in Schwerin one 1898 remind revealed monument with a marmornen - production of Bildhaur Professor Wilhelm wall cutter - on from Stephan. Of course it in honours also several stamps were published.

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