Adolf from and to Gilsa

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Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von und zu Gilsa (born November 28, 1876 in Höxter , † June 7, 1945 in Idar-Oberstein ) was a German administrative officer and manor owner.

Life

Adolf von und zu Gilsa studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1896 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . After graduating, he completed his legal clerkship and passed the second state examination in 1905. He became a government assessor at the high presidium in Kassel.

In 1911 Gilsa became district administrator for the Kirchhain district . During the First World War he took part in the fighting on the western front as a captain in the reserve of the 2nd Guards Regiment and as a battalion commander in the Reserve Spare Infantry Regiment No. 1 and received the Knight's Cross with Swords of the Hohenzollern House Order . In 1917 he moved to the Lithuanian military administration , where he was deputy head of administration until 1919. After the First World War, Gilsa returned to the Kirchhain district as a district administrator. In 1928 he was transferred to the government in Kassel as a senior councilor . As a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party , he became district administrator in the Schlüchtern district in 1933 . After the district administrator of the Gelhausen district, Wilhelm Kausemann, fell in 1941, he also acted as the district administrator there until a successor was appointed in 1943. In 1945 he was removed from office by the US military administration , imprisoned and interned in the Idar-Oberstein camp, where he died immediately.

Gilsa was co-owner and general representative of the manor Oberhof Gilsa with a size of 300 hectares. He was married to Vera Freiin von Knobelsdorf. District Administrator Gottfried von und zu Gilsa was his brother.

See also

literature

  • 454. † by and to Gilsa, Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf . In: Hasso von Etzdorf , Wolfgang von der Groeben , Erik von Knorre: Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen and the Landsmannschaft Saxonia (1840–1844) as of February 13, 1972 , p. 80.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 145.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener corps lists 1910, 85/471
  2. ^ District of Marburg ad Lahn administrative history and district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke)
  3. ↑ District of Schlüchtern administrative history and district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke)
personal data
SURNAME Gilsa, Adolf from and to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gilsa, Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf from and to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer and manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Höxter
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1945
Place of death Idar-Oberstein