Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth

[1] He entered the Prussian civil service in 1801, becoming Assessor in Bayreuth in 1806, followed in 1809 by a position in Potsdam and in 1810 at the head of the taxation section of the finance ministry in Berlin.

In 1813/14 he was a member of the Lützow Free Corps and fought in the liberation campaign against Napoleon; he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class.

Beuth was a member of the Deutsche Tischgesellschaft, founded in Berlin in 1811 by Achim von Arnim and Adam Heinrich Müller.

In his position in the finance ministry, Beuth was a member of the commission for the reform of taxation and manufacturing in the office of the Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg; after the end of the Napoleonic Wars he participated in drafting the new tax laws of 1817.

He left the ministry in autumn 1845 with the rank of Wirklicher Geheimer Rat (full privy councillor), but remained a member of the council of state.