Alfred von Gescher (politician, 1893)

Alfred von Gescher (born on May 8, 1893 at Haus Brömerhof near Obrighoven ; died on April 10, 1979 in Haselünne ; since January 1, 1900, von Gescher ) was District Administrator of the Monschau district from 1933 to 1939 and most recently President of the Regional Administrative Court of Münster .

Life

Origin and education

Alfred von Gescher was born as Alfred Gescher in 1893. The Prussian nobility was his father, the then district administrator of the Rees district (1889-1894) and later Royal Prussian government president of the administrative district of Münster (1897-1909), Alfred von Gescher on January 1, 1900 by the Prussian King Wilhelm II . His mother was Johanna Lucia Franziska von Gescher, née Pfeifer, a daughter of the Cologne sugar manufacturer Emil Pfeifer .

After visiting the (Rats-) High School in Munster , which he in 1913 with passing the matriculation examination was going on, took from Gescher to study law at the universities of Oxford , Munich and Münster on. Interrupted by the First World War, in which he participated as a first lieutenant in a cuirassier regiment from 1914 to 1918 and after which he was led as a reserve officer in January 1919, he passed the 1st state law examination on July 10, 1919 . Not three weeks later, on July 29th, he was appointed court trainee and then continued his training at the Warendorf District Court . During this phase was of Gescher on 2 February 1920 the Royal University of Greifswald with the work Abdication to Dr. iur. doctorate , which led to his appointment as a government trainee on March 20, 1920. In 1922 he passed the second state examination and was appointed government assessor. As a result, Alfred von Gescher initially found employment in the Marienwerder government and from March 1923 switched to the determination authority in Essen and the Düsseldorf government . Further stations were from October 1, 1927 to June 30, 1928 an informational employment with the Duisburg city administration , during which he was appointed to the government council and finally returned to the Düsseldorf government on July 1, 1928.

Career

From Düsseldorf, von Gescher was commissioned to succeed Max von Stockhausen from March 26, 1933 with the initially representative administration of the district office of the district of Lüdinghausen in the administrative district of Münster. On June 26, 1933, he was appointed provisional district administrator, but was finally replaced on October 2, 1933 and returned to the Düsseldorf government. The district leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) Herbert Barthel took over his position in Lüdinghausen .

After his brief employment in the district administrator in Lüdinghausen, von Gescher was commissioned on August 31, 1934 with the administration of the district office of the district of Monschau. There he succeeded the former Geilenkircher district manager Franz Lracht , who previously took over the Monschau office on April 18, 1933, but was only put into temporary retirement on September 7, 1934 at the age of 42. Von Gescher, on the other hand, received the definitive appointment as district administrator of the Monschau district on January 28, 1935. However, after only four years there, on July 20, 1939, like Barthel, he was put into temporary retirement.

Barely six weeks before the start of the Second World War was followed on 20 July 1939 he was transferred to the waiting state (z D) and 16 August 1939, the transfer to the government Minden . After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Alfred von Gescher was signed up as a worker in August 1944 and assigned to an armaments factory. After this time he returned to the Münster government. After Walter Scheibler, who was only officially confirmed as Monschau District Administrator on March 10, 1945 , was removed from his office after a few months due to a possible NSDAP past, Alfred von Gescher returned to Monschau in June 1945 and held the office of District Administrator again until April 28, 1945 September 1945.

Alfred von Gescher found his last post in 1949 when he was appointed administrative court director at the regional administrative court of the newly founded state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster. Appointed President of the Regional Administrative Court on December 1, 1954, he retired there on June 1, 1961.

family

The Catholic Alfred von Gescher married on May 18, 1920 in Münster Hermenegilde Freiin von Brenken (born on March 28, 1896 at Haus Wohnung in the Ahaus district), a daughter of Major Rudolf Freiherr von Brenken and his wife, Elfriede Freiin von Brenken, née Freiin from Wüllenweber. Alfred and Hermenegilde von Gescher are buried in the old St. Mauritz cemetery in Münster. Three children resulted from their marriage: Margret, married to Alfred-Egon Freiherr von Fürstenberg; Alfred, married to Felizitas, née Freiin von Perger and Rudolf, married to Maria, née Didden.

Web links

Portrait with biography (copy from Romeyk) , on staedteregion-historisch.de, accessed on January 12, 2016.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816-1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 467 f .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXII A, historical works on Westphalian state research, economic and social history group, volume 16), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 157.
↑ Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXII A, historical works on Westphalian state research, economic and social history group, volume 16), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 114.
^ Peter Klefisch: The district leaders of the NSDAP in the districts of Cologne-Aachen, Düsseldorf and Essen. (= Publications of the State Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series C: Sources and Research, Nand 45) Verlag Franz Schmitt, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-9805419-2-4 , p. 159 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Gescher, Alfred von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian District Administrator and President of the Regional Administrative Court of Münster
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	House Brömerhof near Obrighoven
DATE OF DEATH	April 10, 1979
Place of death	Haselünne

[Romeyk-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816-1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 467 f .

[Lilla-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXII A, historical works on Westphalian state research, economic and social history group, volume 16), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 157.

[Bartel-3] Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXII A, historical works on Westphalian state research, economic and social history group, volume 16), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 114.

[4] Peter Klefisch: The district leaders of the NSDAP in the districts of Cologne-Aachen, Düsseldorf and Essen. (= Publications of the State Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series C: Sources and Research, Nand 45) Verlag Franz Schmitt, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-9805419-2-4 , p. 159 f.