Adolf Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten

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Adolf Hermann Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten (born August 25, 1868 in Frankfurt an der Oder ; † September 5, 1939 in Hameln ) was a German landowner, civil servant and politician (DHP, CSVD).

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Adolf Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten came from an old Rhenish and Lower Saxony noble family. His parents were the Prussian general of the infantry Ludwig von Hammerstein-Loxten , owner of the manor Loxten and his wife Marie, nee. from over. He attended high schools in Frankfurt , Berlin and Potsdam . He then studied political science and law in Berlin (1888), Marburg (1888–1889), Munich (1889) and Göttingen (1889–1890).

In 1891 he entered the Prussian civil service as a trainee lawyer in Celle . In 1896 he was promoted to government assessor in Berlin . Later he was an unskilled worker with the district administrators in Münster and Linden and with the governments in Hanover and Schleswig . From 1903 to 1910 he worked as a district administrator in the Bernkastel district on the Moselle . In 1910 he moved to the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture as a government councilor in Berlin, where he became a secret government councilor and lecturer in 1911, and finally in 1917 Ministerial Director . After the fall of the Empire, Hammerstein-Loxten was retired on February 1, 1919.

In 1914 he had taken part in the First World War as captain of the reserve of a guard-hunter battalion .

During the Weimar Republic , Hammerstein-Loxten was a member of the Reichstag in Berlin for four years , from 1928 to 1930 as a member of the German-Hanoverian Party (DHP) for constituency 16 (South Hanover-Braunschweig) and from 1930 to 1932 as an intern based on a proposal for a Reich election of the Christian Social People's Service (CSVD). In addition, he managed his estates in Loxten and Wormsthal. He was also a member of the district council and the district committee in the Grafschaft Schaumburg district and a member of the Hessian provincial council.

family

Hammerstein-Loxten was married twice.

  • In his first marriage he was with Henriette Freiin von Oppenheim (1872–1913), a daughter of the banker Eduard von Oppenheim and his wife Amalie, born on December 1, 1897 . Heuser (1835–1903) married. The marriage was divorced on June 9, 1906.
  • In his second marriage he was in Berlin from August 8, 1914 with Carola von Alten (1872–1952), a daughter of the princely schaumburg-Lippe chamberlain and court marshal Ernst von Alten and his wife Franziska, née. Freiin Knigge, married.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 500 f .
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SURNAME Hammerstein-Loxten, Adolf Freiherr von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hammerstein-Loxten, Adolf Hermann Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner, civil servant and politician (DHP, ChrsV), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt Oder
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1939
Place of death Hamelin