Albert Dieckmann

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Albert Dieckmann (born January 13, 1854 in Bechtheim , Duchy of Nassau , † January 24, 1914 in Strasbourg in Alsace ) was a German administrative officer.

Albert Dieckmann around 1889 in Forbach / Saar

Origin and education

Albert Dieckmann grew up in the vicarage of Willmenrod in the Westerwald (Nassau). In his school education he received significant impulses from the Lucius Institute , where he had prepared for the Abitur that he passed in Darmstadt in 1873. In 1874 he first studied philology and one semester later law at the University of Giessen . In 1874 he became a member of the Corps Hassia Gießen . After completing his studies, he entered the administrative service of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . In 1881 Dieckmann married Anna Kissel, the daughter of a forest official from Westerburg. They had two daughters: Irmgard (* 1883) and Luitgard (* 1897).

Professional background

After post in the administrative service in Mulhouse (1881) and Colmar (1882), Dieckmann was government assessor in Metz from 1882 to 1889 (government councilor from 1888). From 1889 to 1896 he was district director of the Forbach district . There Dieckmann succeeded in amicably settling the workers' uprisings that had jumped from the Ruhr area to the Saarland coal district , which also encompassed Forbach . This earned him his first award, "for which the emperor himself congratulated me on 23 August 1889 in Metz".

From 1897 to 1908 Dieckmann was district director of the Schlettstadt district . Here he developed the idea of donating the ruins of the Hohkönigsburg , which are owned by the city of Schlettstadt, to the emperor on the part of the city council of Schlettstadt. After considerable resistance from his superiors, the district president Friedrich von Zeppelin-Aschhausen and the governor Hermann zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg , the donation was made on May 5, 1889 at the castle. The fact that the ruins were then rebuilt to the shape that is visible today (the architect was Bodo Erhardt ) goes back to this initiative.

From 1908 to 1909 Dieckmann was appointed senior councilor to the district presidium in Metz and representative of the district president Friedrich von Zeppelin-Aschhausen.

From March 1, 1909 to 1912, he was district director of the Mulhouse district . In Mühlhausen he also had the character of a police chief. In the conflict between the military and civil society on the occasion of the flight day at the Habsheim airfield near Mulhouse, Dieckmann sided with the civil mayor after unsuccessful attempts at mediation, which ultimately cost him the office. Dieckmann could count on the support of the governor Karl von Wedel ; the latter even threatened to resign because of the action against Dieckmann. Nevertheless, Dieckmann was "sidelined" and transferred to an "honorary post" in Strasbourg. From 1912 until his death he held the post of head of the state insurance company.

Awards

  • August 21, 1889 Red Eagle Order IV class
  • 23 September 1895 First Class Knight's Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Löwen (Baden)
  • May 13, 1899 Royal Crown Order III. class
  • January 25, 1902 Red Cross Medal III. class
  • December 15, 1903 Appointment to the Privy Council
  • August 12, 1905 Knight's Cross of the Order of Albrecht (Saxony)
  • 25th January 1906 Red Eagle Order III. Class with a bow
  • February 3, 1908 Memorial coin made of steel on the occasion of the uprising in South West Africa
  • October 12, 1908 Medal commemorating the inauguration of the Hohkönigsburg

literature

  • Hans-Ulrich Werner: Albert Dieckmann - Imperial civil servant in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine , 692 pages, perkunas Verlag, Kassel 2016, ISBN 978-3-9808444-6-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Riederer: Celebrations in the Reichsland: Political symbolism, public festival culture and the invention of collective affiliations in Alsace-Lorraine (1871-1918) (= Trier historical research, no. 57). Kilomedia Verlag, Trier 2004, ISBN 978-3-89890-049-2 , p. 321.
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 51 , 586
  3. ^ Klaus Michael Mallmann: The beginnings of the miners' movement on the Saar (1848–1904) , Saarbrücken 1981.
  4. ↑ Dieckmanns Silvesterniederschriften, online at http://www.albert-dieckmann.de/
  5. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Werner: Albert Dieckmann , p. 540.
  6. ↑ Handwritten letter from Wedels to Dieckmann dated July 13, 1911. In: Hans-Ulrich Werner: Albert Dieckmann , p. 551.
  7. ^ Obituary for Dieckmann. In: Wormser Zeitung of January 28, 1914.
  8. ↑ District of Schlettstadt administrative history and list of district directors on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke)
  9. ↑ District of Mulhouse administrative history and list of district directors on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke)
  10. ↑ Certificates for the awards
personal data
SURNAME Dieckmann, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Bechtheim , Duchy of Nassau
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1914
Place of death Strasbourg in Alsace