Adolf von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels

Adolf Maximilian Freiherr von Dalwigk about Lichtenfels (* 3. July 1860 in home Bois village , Düren , † 20th November 1924 at Schloss Longenburg in Koenigswinter ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer , district administration and District President of the administrative district of Aachen .

family

The son of the royal Prussian chamberlain and entrant Julius Freiherrn von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels (1816–1885) and his wife Anna, née von Böselager (1830–1895), married Anna Freiin von Loë on August 2, 1890 (born April 4, 1868 in Cologne; † November 7, 1937 in Bonn), the daughter of Rittmeister Friedrich von Loë zu Longenburg and Mathilde born. Baroness of Waldbott-Bassenheim .

education

After graduating from the Paulinisches Gymnasium in Münster in 1880, Dalwigk studied law and political science in Göttingen and Strasbourg until 1883, which he completed with the first state examination on December 15, 1883.

Career

Dalwigk joined in 1884 into the Prussian government service and was initially to 1887 court clerk at the district court Ahaus and the regional courts of Paderborn and Munster. After working for a lawyer and notary, he became a government trainee in Düsseldorf on November 15, 1887. In the meantime he did his military service from October 1884 to October 1885 with the 1st Westphalian Hussar Regiment No. 8.

In 1891 he was appointed government assessor and worked as such in Stettin and Kassel .

After Dalwigk initially acted as a representative of the district administrator of the Wipperfürth district in 1895 , he became district administrator there a year later. In the same position he worked in the Siegkreis from 1904 to 1917 , until he was appointed regional president of the administrative district of Aachen . In this position, Dalwigk was also responsible as Reich Commissioner for the transfer of the Eupen and Malmedy districts to be ceded to Belgium on the basis of the Versailles Treaty .

After the assassination of Reich Minister Walther Rathenau , Dalwigk, like other district presidents of the old regime, was put into temporary retirement on July 22, 1922. He then took over the chairmanship of the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture in Bonn until his death .

Dalwigk was awarded the Iron Cross on a white and black ribbon for his services during the First World War .

literature

• Eduard Arens , Wilhelm Leopold Janssen : Club Aachener Casino , print Wilhelm Metz, Aachen 1964, p. 229

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 403 .
2. ^ Entry in the Federal Archives