Adolf Frank von Fürstenwerth

Adolf Freiherr Frank von Fürstenwerth (born April 16, 1833 in Hechingen , † December 6, 1893 in Sigmaringen ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

Baron Frank came from a family of civil servants who had been raised to baron by Prince Hermann von Hohenzollern-Hechingen in 1806 . Until a reprimand from the royal Prussian heraldry in 1902, she was called von Frank ( Freiherr von Frank, Baron Frank ).

From 1852 Adolf von Frank studied law at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and the Friedrichs-Universität Halle . He became a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen (1852) and the Corps Marchia Halle (1854). After graduating, he served as a one-year volunteer in the Württemberg Army . In 1856 he began his civil service career as an auscultator . After the second state examination, he entered the administrative service of the Crown Prussia in 1862 . In 1862/63 he was a government assessor with the government in Frankfurt (Oder) , then with the Prussian parliamentary delegation in Frankfurt am Main . After serving in the district governments in Bromberg and Stettin , he returned to Hechingen in May 1868 as a senior bailiff. He thus succeeded his older brother Wilhelm . Frank represented the Sigmaringen constituency in the Prussian House of Representatives from 1869 to 1870 . Beginning of 1877, he came as a Government to Government in Wroclaw . A year later he was appointed presidential councilor to the senior presidium of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel , and in January 1881 he moved to the government in Schleswig as senior councilor and director of the interior department . With the powers of an upper president , he was appointed regional president of the Hohenzollern region on April 22, 1887 . In 1893, as a conservative candidate for the Reichstag in the constituency of Hohenzollern, he was defeated by the candidate of the Center Party . He died in office at the age of 60.

His brother Wilhelm Frank von Fürstenwerth († 1909) was a judge at the Prussian Higher Administrative Court .

Regiments

• 1860–1862: Infantry Regiment "von Horn" (3rd Rheinisches) No. 29
• 1863–1866: 1st Brandenburg Landwehr Regiment No. 8
• 1866 and 1867: 1st Pomeranian Landwehr Regiment No. 2
• 1868–1872: 3rd Rhenish Landwehr Regiment No. 29

medal

• Red Eagle Order IV class with swords, for the storming of the Düppeler Schanzen as a second lieutenant
• Order of the Red Eagle III. Kl. With the bow and swords on the ring
• Order of the Red Eagle II class with oak leaves and swords on the ring
• Order of the Württemberg Crown , Knight's Cross
• Order of Christ (Portugal) , Commander's Cross with a star
• Order of the Crown of Romania , Grand Officer's Cross
• Landwehr service award 2nd class

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 197/300; 99/236.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Oberschwäbische Biographien ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 112/558; 197/271
4. ↑ LIR 29
5. ↑ Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State for the year 1884/85, p. 417
6. ^ Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Sigmaringen 1889, p. 15
7. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg, Stuttgart 1886/87, p. 46
8. ^ Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Sigmaringen 1898, p. 55
9. ^ Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Sigmaringen for the year 1893, p. 99