Eduard Dmitrievich Pleske ( German: Eduard Theodor Pleske ; October 25, 1852 - April 26, 1904) - Russian statesman. Privy Councilor (since 1896). Governor of the State Bank of the Russian Empire (1894-1903). Minister of Finance of Russia (1903-1904). In 1904 he was appointed a member of the Council of State .
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| Predecessor | Sergey Yulievich Witte | ||||||
| Successor | Vladimir Nikolaevich Kokovtsov | ||||||
| Birth | October 25, 1852 | ||||||
| Death | April 26, 1904 (51 years old) | ||||||
| Education | Alexander Lyceum | ||||||
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Biography
Born into the family of Eduard Ludwigovich Pleske (1817–1873), an officer in various combat engineer divisions, and then an officer in the command of command, and his wife Margarita Elizaveta Oom (1822–1880), daughter of a teacher Anna Oom ; brother of the zoologist Fedor Pleske [1] .
Educated at the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in St. Petersburg .
Upon leaving the lyceum with a small gold medal and the rank of IX class, he entered the service, at the beginning of 1873, at the Ministry of Finance, in which he passed all the degrees of the service hierarchy. The first half of his career, in the salary department, he took place "in a black body", and only in March 1888 was appointed vice-director of this department. A year after this, Eduard Dmitrievich was transferred to the credit office first as a vice director, and in early 1892 he occupied an important and influential position as director of this office. With the transfer to the credit office, Eduard Dmitrievich became one of the closest employees of the then Minister of Finance I.A. Vyshnegradsky on all kinds of loans. [2]
From 1894 to 1903 he was the manager of the State Bank of the Russian Empire .
Pleske was a man more cultured, more capable, with a great deal of endurance, very clean, honest and noble, but with a German mind, which has the advantage that it limits the flight of thought, and on the other hand, the disadvantage that people with German the mind often lacks the proper flight of thought.
- Witte S. Yu. 1849-1894: Childhood. The reign of Alexander II and Alexander III, chapter 16 // Memoirs . - M .: Sotsekgiz, 1960. - T. 1. - S. 345. - 75 000 copies.
On August 16 (29), 1903 he was appointed manager of the Ministry of Finance, replacing Sergey Witte . However, six months later, on February 4, 1904, he resigned due to illness, and Vladimir Kokovtsov , who replaced him, was married to his cousin Anna Oom.
See also
- List of Finance Ministers of the Russian Empire
Notes
- ↑ Slepkova N.V. Strokes to the biography of Academician F.D. Pleske // Russian Ornithological Journal, 2016, Volume 25, Express-release 1289, p. 1858-1860.
- ↑ Historical Newsletter: Volume 96. Obituary. Type of. A. S. Suvorin, 1904
Literature
- Alekseev M.Yu., Pachkalov A.V. Ministers of Finance: From the Russian Empire to the present. - M .: Albina Publisher, 2019 .-- 554 p. - ISBN 978-5-9614-2182-8
Links
- Pleske Eduard Dmitrievich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Imperial house. Outstanding dignitaries. Encyclopedia of biographies. T 2, Volume 2
- Pleske, Eduard Dmitrievich
| Predecessor: Sergey Witte | Minister of Finance of Russia 1903-1904 | Successor: Vladimir Kokovtsov |