Adolf Ernst von Ernsthausen

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Adolf Ernst von Ernsthausen as an honorary member of the Corps Rhenania Bonn

Karl Adolf August Ernst von Ernsthausen (born March 14, 1827 in Gummersbach , † August 24, 1894 in Bonn ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician in Prussia.

Life

As the son of the district administrator in the district of Gummersbach, Karl Ernst von Ernsthausen , Ernsthausen attended the high school in Gummersbach and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Cologne) . He passed the Abitur there in the fall of 1845. He studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . He was a member of the Corps Nassovia Heidelberg (1846) and the Corps Rhenania Bonn (1847) as well as a corps loop bearer of the Saxonia Bonn (1848). The Corps Rhenania Heidelberg awarded him the ribbon in 1886. Whitsun 1848 he took part in the second Wartburg Festival. After the exams he entered the Prussian civil service. In 1849 he became an auscultator in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein and in 1850 a government trainee in Cologne .

Career

As early as 1851 he was appointed provisional district administrator in the Altenkirchen district (Westerwald) and in 1852 in the Simmern district. After being appointed government assessor (1853), he became provisional district administrator in Geldern in 1854, and district administrator in Moers in 1857. In 1865 Ernst von Ernsthausen succeeded Carl Gottfried Sperling as acting mayor of Königsberig i. Pr. Appointed, on May 18, 1866, also in Königsberg, as government vice-president. In May 1870 he moved to the government district of Trier as district president and in this capacity took part in the imperial proclamation in Versailles . In 1871 he became prefect in Strasbourg , in 1872 district president for the district of Lower Alsace and in 1875 district president for the district of Upper Alsace in Colmar. He reached the high point of his career when he was appointed President of the Province of West Prussia on April 1, 1879. Under his leadership, the provincial administration was expanded and the transport infrastructure, schools and churches improved. He was also an important supporter of the restoration of the Marienburg . In 1877 he was appointed to the Real Secret Council. After the great flooding of the Vistula in 1888, which claimed numerous lives, he was given early retirement on September 10, 1888. He lived it in Bonn.

politics

In 1865 and 1866 and again in 1869/1870 he was a member of the conservative parliamentary group in the Prussian House of Representatives . From 1892 to 1894 he was a board member of the German Colonial Society (DKG).

Honors

Fonts

  • Memories of a Prussian official. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld u. Leipzig 1894.

Web links

Wikisource: Adolf Ernst von Ernsthausen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Saarland biographies. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved November 29, 2011 .
  2. Kösener corps lists 1910, 117/141; 26/277; 27/110; 119/794
  3. Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the assistance of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 124.