Alfred Pickart

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Alfred Kurt Paul Pickart (born June 16, 1869 in Nikolei ; † March 8, 1938 in Bad Warmbrunn ) was a German lawyer and a princely Hohenlohe chamber director in Slawentzitz .

Life

After studying law at the universities in Munich, Wroclaw and Berlin, the assessor examination at the Higher Regional Court of Wroclaw (1896) and the activity as a Prussian court assessor in various positions in February 1899, after retiring from civil service as a princely domain councilor in the Fürstlich Hohenlohische Domänendirektion ( later called Princely Chamber) in Slawentzitz.

The Domain Direction administered the fideicommissarian and allodial property of Prince Christian Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen in Upper Silesia (approx. 120,000 acres of forest and 40,000 acres of agriculture) along with other property in Thuringia, Hungary and Poland. This also included mills, sawmills, distilleries, brickworks and paper mills, a brewery, a porcelain factory and an electricity company. Until 1905, the domain management in Slawentzitz also administered the important princely mining property in Upper Silesia, which included coal and zinc works, zinc works and rolling mills, which were then converted into Hohenlohe-Werke AG in Hohenlohenhütte. In addition to his permanent representative of the General Director in general administrative matters, Alfred Pickart's duties included handling various legal matters in civil and administrative law as well as numerous tax matters, mining law, entails and expropriation matters .

During and after the establishment of Hohenlohe-Werke AG, in which the Prince's coal and steel property was transferred, he worked on the extensive and difficult measures for the transfer of ownership, including the related tax matters and expropriation proceedings.

In 1918 he took over the management of the princely administration as princely Hohenlohe chamber director in Slawentzitz. In connection with his official position, Pickart was a member of the supervisory board of Hohenlohe-Werke AG, the Austro-Hungarian zinc rolling mills in Ostrau-Oderfurth / Moravia, some potash trade unions and the Deutsche Palestinabank in Berlin. 1922 joined Pickart from his position behind and worked until August 1, 1923 Fideikommissangelegenheiten of the prince.

At the Kaiseroda potash union , which later became the Wintershall Aktiengesellschaft , he worked as a syndic from 1923 to 1931 , living in Hämbach near Tiefenort .

After a long illness he died on March 8, 1938 in Bad Warmbrunn, where he was buried.

family

Pickart was a son of the Privy Councilor of Justice and a judge at the royal district court in Nikolai / Upper Silesia and later a district judge at the district court Ratibor Carl Pickart (1827-1912). Since 1907 he was married to Clara Lüdke (1897-1959), the daughter of the Privy Councilor and Syndic of the Upper Silesian Principality in Ratibor Carl Lüdke (1857-1927). The marriage resulted in five children, including Kurt Pickart (1910–1988).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d R. Gralla: A great business leader in Upper Silesia. In: Volksbote. Munich 1970, number 42, p. 11.
  2. ↑ a b c d R. Gralla: In Memoriam Chamber Director Alfred Pickart. In: Coseler Heimatblatt. Würzburg 1970, number 20, p. 4f.
  3. ↑ cf. to Hohenlohe-Werke AG: http://www.sietz.de/DT-0558.htm
personal data
SURNAME Pickart, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pickart, Alfred Kurt Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princely Hohenlohe Chamber Director
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Nikolai / Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1938
Place of death Bad Warmbrunn