Alfred von Gescher (politician, 1844)

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Alfred von Gescher (born July 20, 1844 in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein , † October 29, 1932 in Münster ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician. He sat in the Prussian House of Representatives and in the Reichstag (German Empire).

Life

After attending grammar school in Koblenz , Alfred Gescher studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1864 . He became a member of the Isaria Corps . As an inactive, he moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . In 1867 he became a trainee lawyer and in 1872 an assessor . The following year Gescher became a judge in Kreuznach , and from 1875 to 1880 he was a public prosecutor in Cologne .

From 1881 to 1889 he was on leave to take over the management of the legal department in the Foreign Office of the Ottoman Empire ; from 1883 he was also a member of the international finance commission in Constantinople .

After his return to Germany in 1889 he was initially provisional, from 1890 officially district administrator in the Rees district . As a Catholic conservative, he was able to win the constituency of Düsseldorf 7 ( Moers - Rees) against a candidate for the center in the Reichstag election in 1893 ; however, he did not join the conservative faction in the Reichstag. On December 2, 1894, Gescher resigned from his Reichstag mandate because of his appointment to the senior government council and vice-president of the district government in Düsseldorf . He remained in this office until 1896, briefly serving as a lecturer in the Ministry of the Interior and in 1897 was appointed district president of Münster. He retired in 1909 at the age of 65.

During his time as president of the Münster administrative district, he initiated the process of incorporating surrounding villages into the city of Münster in 1898 . When the incorporation process ended in 1903, the area of ​​the city of Münster had grown from 10.8 square kilometers to 65.9 square kilometers.

From 1908 to 1918 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives as a representative of the Münster 1 constituency ( Tecklenburg district ). However, as a Catholic he always remained an outsider within the faction of the German Conservative Party .

He became wealthy through his marriage in 1884 to Johanna Lucia Franziska Pfeifer (1857–1934), the daughter of the Cologne councilor and sugar manufacturer ( Pfeifer & Langen ) Emil Pfeifer , and spent the years after his retirement in Münster, where he was the patron of numerous social and sociable people and non-profit associations helped shape the city's social life. The marriage with Johanna had four children: Martha Lucie Theodore Kérimé (1887–1923), Karl Theodor Emil (* 1891), Eugen Norbert Alfred Maria (* 1892), Alfred Josef Emil Maria (1893–1979).

The family's grave is in Münster on the St. Mauritz cemetery . In 1984 he was transferred to the Lotten cemetery in Haselünne / Emsland. The Lotten estate was acquired in 1902 by the district president of Münster, Alfred von Gescher. In 1905 the mansion was closed and replaced by a new building. The Lotten estate is still owned by the von Gescher family today.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 109 , 516.
  2. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder : The Münster government presidents of the 20th century. Edited by the Münster district government. Self-published, Münster 2006, p. 11
  3. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 168; see. also: Reichstag Bureau (ed.): Official Reichstag manual. Ninth legislative period 1893/98 . Berlin: Verlag Crowitzsch and Son, 1893, p. 168f
  4. ↑ Reichstag Bureau (ed.): Addendum to the official Reichstag manual for the ninth legislature period 1893/98 together with notifications about the new Reichstag building . Berlin: Reichstag printing house, 1896, p. 14
  5. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder: The Münster government presidents of the 20th century. Edited by the Münster district government. Self-published, Münster 2006, p. 12
  6. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder: The Münster government presidents of the 20th century. Edited by the Münster district government. Self-published, Münster 2006, p. 13
  7. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 144 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 585-588.

literature

  • Bernd Haunfelder : The Münster government presidents of the 20th century. Edited by the Münster district government. Self-published, Münster 2006, pp. 11–13
  • Wolfgang Gernert: District President von Gescher was held in high regard . In: Heimatpflege in Westfalen , Münster, Volume 23, Issue 4/2010, pp. 10–13 ( as digital copy , PDF)
  • Chronicle of the Pfeifer family , around 1975 (only published in the family circle)

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personal data
SURNAME Gescher, Alfred von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gescher, Alfred Klemens Karl Maria von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1932
Place of death Muenster