Alfred von Goßler

Karl Max Eugen Alfred von Goßler , also von Gossler (born March 17, 1867 in Guhrau , Lower Silesia ; † August 16, 1946 at Gut Testorf , Holstein ) was a German administrative lawyer , manor owner , Prussian district administrator and politician .

Life

Origin and family

Alfred von Goßler was a son of the Prussian district administrator, member of parliament and secret councilor Eugen von Goßler (1823-1892) and Elise von Schönitz (1839-1935). He came from the Goßler family .

He married Elisabeth (Ilse) Felicitas Anna Henriette Mauve called von Schmidt (1871–1951) in Berlin in 1895 , the daughter of the royal Prussian Colonel Karl Moritz Eberhard Mauve (1832–1886, from 1861 called Mauve von Schmidt ) and Valeska Klara Ida Sophie von Rentz (1837-1917). Her daughter was Dorothea Sybille (nickname: Dosy) von Goßler (1906-2001), who was the mother of Justus Frantz .

career

Alfred von Goßler attended the Roßleben convent school from 1881 to 1886 . He then studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg until 1889 and later in Berlin . In 1886 he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . From 1889 to 1892 he was a court trainee in Rathenow and Berlin, then for two years government trainee in Frankfurt an der Oder . From 1895 to 1898 he worked as a government assessor in the Trebnitz district office and then until 1901 with the government in Kassel .

After completing this legal traineeship , he was District Administrator of the Brieg district (Lower Silesia) from 1901 to 1908 . He then belonged to the Prussian House of Representatives for 10 years as a representative of the German Conservative Party , where he represented the constituency of Breslau 1 ( Guhrau - Steinau - Wohlau) as a member . From 1915 to 1918 he was an elected member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Guhrau - Wohlau.

He was in the Prussian army and served with war participation on the western and eastern front at the end of his military service as Rittmeister in the hussar regiment "von Zieten" (Brandenburgisches) No. 3 , the same regiment in which his father had also served.

In 1915 he was proposed to General Erich Ludendorff by the corps brother Hans Joachim von Brockhusen-Justin , who organized the establishment of the administration in the occupied Baltic States , appointed head of the German civil administration in Courland with official seat in Mitau and remained in this post until his Dismissed in 1918. The Germanness of the Baltic population made a lasting impression on him and he wrote that they “ ... were not only German to the core of their hearts, but who always had the courage to stand up for their Germanness with heart and soul Soul, with good and blood ” .

Alfred von Goßler was the landlord on Schätz and after the death of his mother in 1935 he also inherited the Klein-Kloden manor in the Guhrau district. The family had to leave Gut Schätz at the end of the Second World War and found accommodation at Gut Testorf, where Alfred von Goßler died in 1946.

plant

Karl Helfferich in memory , Hempel, 1924

Awards (selection)

Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle , IV class

Iron Cross , 2nd class

Right knight ( commander ) of the Order of St. John

literature

Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B Volume XVIII, page 178, volume 95 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4
Karl-Heinz Janssen : Alfred von Gossler and the German Administration in the Baltic States 1915/1916 , In: Historische Zeitschrift , 2014, pp. 42–54

Web links

Alfred von Goßler in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Alfred von Gossler . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Alfred von Goßler in the German biography
A left-wing Prussian , visiting Alfred von Goßler's daughter, Die Welt , 2001

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 120 , 900
^ 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. 150 (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. 310-312.
^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 336–338.
^ Benjamin Hasselhorn: Johannes Haller: A political scholar biography . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015, ISBN 978-3-647-36084-3 , pp. 421 ( google.de [accessed on March 30, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Goßler, Alfred von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Goßler, Karl Max Eugen Alfred von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German administrative lawyer, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Guhrau , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	August 16, 1946
Place of death	Gut Testorf , Holstein

[1] Kösener corps lists 1910, 120 , 900

[2] 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. 150 (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. 310-312.

[3] Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 336–338.

[4] Benjamin Hasselhorn: Johannes Haller: A political scholar biography . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015, ISBN 978-3-647-36084-3 , pp. 421 ( google.de [accessed on March 30, 2018]).