Armin von Lossow

Balthasar Friedrich Ludwig Armin von Lossow (born May 11, 1876 in Bremen , † March 28, 1945 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) was a German district administrator .

biography

Lossow was the son of the customs inspector Georg Adolf Heinrich Gustav Lossow (1833-1891, later a secret councilor and member of the statistical office of the German Empire). After attending the Royal French High School in Berlin , Armin von Lossow studied law in Berlin , Heidelberg and Munich . During his studies in 1895 he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . In 1899/1900 he was a one-year volunteer with the 1st Guard Uhlan Regiment in Potsdam and from 1901 a lieutenant in the reserve . After exams and legal clerkship , he became a government assessor at the district administrator in Memel in 1905 and joined the government in Potsdam in 1906. In 1912 he became provisional and in 1913 final district administrator in the district of Osterburg .

During the First World War he served as a first lieutenant from 1914 to 1916 in the 1st Guards Uhlan Regiment and in the stage fleet column 122. In 1915 he became captain and commander of the stage fleet column 4 on the Yser front . For his achievements Lossow received the Iron Cross II. Class and the Cross of Merit for War Aid .

In 1920 he was given leave of absence as a district administrator. He was the deputy chairman of the Reichsfettstelle in Berlin. From 1921 to 1939 he was district administrator in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district , and from 1921 to 1938 there on the board of the Kreissparkasse Rotenburg . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . In 1939 he retired.

Lossow was an honorary knight of the Order of St. John . In 1912 he had the general daughter Viktoria von Lossow, nee. von Lyncker (* 1885), married.

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 314-315.

Individual evidence

↑ Members of the family served in numerous other German states during the 18th and 19th centuries: Georg Adolf Heinrich Gustav von Lossow, Bavarian customs inspector in Bremen, the Oskar von Lossow brothers, mayor of Lindau, Louis von Lossow, Bavarian captain and Adolf von Lossow, Bavarian captain, and their cousin Hans von Lossow, Bavarian Oberpost- und Bahnamtsoffizial; Bavarian secondary lieutenant Maximilian von Lossow, Ludwig von Lossow, businessman in Hof and Walter von Lossow, pastor in Sulzbürg; Royal Saxon Major General Ludwig von Lossow.
↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser. Uneven year: old nobility and post office nobility. 1923. Seventy-third year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1922, pp. 385–386.

personal data
SURNAME	Lossow, Armin von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lossow, Balthasar Friedrich Ludwig Armin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH	May 11, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen
DATE OF DEATH	March 28, 1945
Place of death	Berlin-Zehlendorf

[1] Members of the family served in numerous other German states during the 18th and 19th centuries: Georg Adolf Heinrich Gustav von Lossow, Bavarian customs inspector in Bremen, the Oskar von Lossow brothers, mayor of Lindau, Louis von Lossow, Bavarian captain and Adolf von Lossow, Bavarian captain, and their cousin Hans von Lossow, Bavarian Oberpost- und Bahnamtsoffizial; Bavarian secondary lieutenant Maximilian von Lossow, Ludwig von Lossow, businessman in Hof and Walter von Lossow, pastor in Sulzbürg; Royal Saxon Major General Ludwig von Lossow.

[2] Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser. Uneven year: old nobility and post office nobility. 1923. Seventy-third year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1922, pp. 385–386.