Alexander von Bischoffshausen

Alexander von Bischoffshausen (1846–1928)

Alexander James von Bischoffshausen (born October 26, 1846 in Hanau , Hessen , † June 18, 1928 in Brannenburg , Upper Bavaria ) was a German civil servant and landscape painter. He was president of the Prussian government debt administration and worked as a landscape painter after leaving the service .

Life

Bischoffshausen came from an ancient noble family from what is now Lower Saxony , which later resided in Hesse as a member of the Knighthood of the Old Hessen . He was the son of Edwin von Bischoffshausen (1810-1884), Prussian state director in Hesse, and his second wife Berta Buderus von Carlshausen (1822-1893).

After attending grammar school in Fulda , Bischoffshausen studied law at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1862 he began his legal civil service career in the Prussian civil service as a chamber court - Akkurar , in 1868 he became a chamber court auscultator . In 1873 he became a court assessor and in 1878 a government assessor at the police headquarters in Berlin .

On May 13, 1876, he married Elisabeth Gutike (1853–1929), the daughter of Consul General Paul Gutike and Mathilde Landsberg. The sons Paul (* 1877) and Reinhard (* 1881) emerged from the marriage.

Around 1881/82 he was appointed district administrator of the Pinneberg district . At the same time (1882) Bischoffshausen was a candidate of the Reich and Free Conservative Party for the Prussian House of Representatives . In 1889, Bischoffshausen moved to the district government in Schleswig as a senior councilor . In 1897 he became president of the Minden district . In 1899 he moved to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior as Ministerialdirektor and Real Secret Upper Government Councilor. There he became Undersecretary of State and Commissioner at the Settlement Commission in 1900 .

In 1907 he became President of the Examination Commission for Higher State Officials and was promoted to the Real Privy Council with the title "Excellency". On December 31, 1907, he was appointed President of the Central Administration for National Debt and the Reich Debt Administration. In the middle of 1918 he resigned from the civil service and from then on devoted himself to landscape painting. He was a full member of the Berlin Artists Association .

literature

Jürgen Kocka , Wolfgang Neugebauer : Acta Borussica. (New series), Volume 8 / II, page 494, Georg Olms Verlag , 2003, ISBN 3-487-11827-0 or ISBN 978-3-487-11827-7 ( digitized ), Volume 9, page 333, Georg Olms Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-487-11006-7 and Volume 10, page 363, Georg Olms Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-487-11007-5

Web links

Commons : Alexander von Bischoffshausen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Worldroots.com: Bischoffshausen Genealogy, s. No. 23/36 ( Memento of July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ All information about himself, his parents and his wife according to information from Werner v. Bischoffshausen in the Internet database of the Utah Genealogical Society ( familysearch.org ). The place of death Brannenburg in Upper Bavaria - and not Berlin - is also confirmed in other sources.
↑ Around the year 1896, the Oberregierungsrat von Bischoffshausen and his wife in Bad Blankenburg made their joint will. Today it is archived in the Thuringian State Archives in Rudolstadt ( page 425 ; PDF; 2.1 MB).

personal data
SURNAME	Bischoffshausen, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bischoffshausen, Alexander James von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil servant and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 26, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanau , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH	June 18, 1928
Place of death	Brannenburg , Upper Bavaria

[1] All information about himself, his parents and his wife according to information from Werner v. Bischoffshausen in the Internet database of the Utah Genealogical Society ( familysearch.org ). The place of death Brannenburg in Upper Bavaria - and not Berlin - is also confirmed in other sources.

[2] Around the year 1896, the Oberregierungsrat von Bischoffshausen and his wife in Bad Blankenburg made their joint will. Today it is archived in the Thuringian State Archives in Rudolstadt ( page 425 ; PDF; 2.1 MB).