Adolf von Heyden

Adolf von Heyden (born August 29, 1847 in Buschmühl ; † July 12, 1920 in Groß Below ) was district administrator in Beeskow-Storkow and Demmin .

Life

Adolf von Heyden was the son of Karl von Heyden (1822–1888) and his wife Cäcilie von Rhade (1823–1903). He attended high school in Anklam and then studied in Heidelberg , Leipzig and Berlin law . In 1868 he became a trainee lawyer . In 1870/71 he took part with the Demmin Uhlans in the Franco-German War , where he fell ill with typhus and was in the hospital near Orléans .

In 1874 he was a court judge in Upper Silesia . Soon afterwards he opened a law firm in Frankfurt (Oder) , but entered the civil service as a government assessor in Potsdam as early as 1877. In 1880 he became district administrator of the Beeskow-Storkow district. After his father's death in 1888 he inherited the Groß Below estate and took up the vacant position of the district administrator of the Demmin district.

During his tenure, he led the negotiations for the construction of the Demminer Kleinbahnen , commissioned the expansion of the highways and in 1911 had the district office building built in Demmin . At the end of 1912 he retired.

family

Adolf von Heyden married Margarete Harttung (1863–1932), the daughter of a doctor, in 1875. The marriage resulted in six daughters.

literature

• Harald von Heyden: Constantly changing. Reports from six generations of the von Heyden / von Heyden-Linden family from 1800–1989. Heyden'sche Familienstiftung (Ed.), Borgwedel, p. 282ff.