Wilhelm von Waldow

Wilhelm Hans August von Waldow , also Hans August Wilhelm von Waldow (born October 31, 1856 in Berlin ; † July 27, 1937 ibid) was a German administrative lawyer in Prussia.

Life

Wilhelm von Waldow was born as the son of the royal Prussian forest master and entrant on Dannenwalde, Adolf (Friedrich August) von Waldow (1820–1906) and his wife Elisabeth, b. von Rochow (1826-1904).

Waldow spent the first two years of his life in Berlin; then, as a result of the father's transfer, the family first moved to Frankfurt (Oder) , then to Posen and finally to Königsberg . On September 4, 1874, Wilhelm passed the Abitur at the Roßleben monastery school . From 1874 to 1877 he studied law and political science at the Kaiserliche Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg , the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In 1876 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . After successfully completing his degree, Waldow worked at the Court of Appeal in Frankfurt (Oder). On January 2, 1878, he was appointed court trainee, but in 1878/79 he served as a one-year volunteer with the 2nd Guard Regiment on Foot of the Prussian Army .

On April 1, 1881, Waldow entered the higher administrative service and became a government trainee. As such, he worked for the government in Danzig . After he had passed the great state examination in 1884, he was appointed government assessor and employed by the government in Bydgoszcz . This was followed by positions in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior in Berlin , with the government in Frankfurt (Oder) and a year later again in the Interior Ministry in Berlin. In 1886 he took over the provisional administration of the district office of the circle Fischhausen in Administrative district Königsberg . After he was appointed here for the District on November 3, 1886 and published in Königsberg six years had worked, he took over in 1892 as the provisional administration of the circle Niederbarnim in the administrative district of Potsdam . He promoted the construction of highways and small railways and expanded the fire extinguishing system.

On August 4, 1890, Waldow married Elisabeth von Werder in Königsberg. The marriage had three children, two of whom survived their father.

From 1894 to 1898 Waldow was a member of the Prussian state parliament . On 2 February 1898, he was Oberpräsidialrat in Konigsberg and there on October 9, 1899 President of the Government of the administrative district of Kaliningrad .

In 1903 he was appointed Chief President of the Poznan Province. There he also took over the offices of Deputy President of the Settlement Commission for West Prussia and Poznan, Curator of the Royal Academy in Poznan and President of the German Society for Art and Science in Poznan. When his father died in 1906, Waldow inherited the Dannenwalde and Gramzow estates . In 1910 he became the Real Privy Council . In 1911 he was appointed President of the Province of Pomerania with his official seat in Szczecin .

On August 6, 1917, Waldow was appointed State Minister and became State Secretary of the War Food Office . In the November Revolution he resigned from civil service. From 1920 he worked as a member of parliament and later temporarily as chairman of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz regional association of the German National People's Party .

Honors

• Red Eagle Order II Class with Oak Leaves (1906)
• Order of the Crown, Class II (1909)
• Honorary citizens of Posen , Hohensalza , Schneidemühl and Bartenstein (1910/11)

In the then Niederbarnim district, some of the streets that now belong to Berlin were named after Waldow: in 1900 in the Carlshorst Colony, which he approved and co-founded, Waldowallee, in Oberschöneweide Waldowplatz and two Waldowstraßen. There are other Waldowstraßen in Hohenschönhausen , Niederschönhausen , Mahlsdorf , and Reinickendorf .

literature

• Claudia Wilke: The district administrators of the Teltow and Niederbarnim districts in the German Empire . Potsdam 1998, ISBN 3-930850-70-2 .

Web link

• Literature by and about Wilhelm von Waldow in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang von der Groeben : Directory of all members of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen 1844 to 2006. Düsseldorf 2006.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 47/304
3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Vol. 87 (1985), pp. 449-450.
4. ↑ Waldowallee. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
5. ↑ Waldowplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
6. ↑ Waldowstrasse (Oberschöneweide 1898–1858) . In: Luise.
7. ^ Waldowstrasse (Oberschöneweide since 1900). In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
8. ^ Waldowstrasse (Hohenschönhausen). In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
9. ^ Waldowstrasse (Niederschönhausen). In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
10. ^ Waldowstrasse (Mahlsdorf). In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
11. ^ Waldowstrasse (Reinickendorf). In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )

predecessor	Office	successor
Adolf Tortilowicz from Batocki-Friebe	State Secretary in the War Food Office 1917–1918	Emanuel Wurm