Arthur von Wolff

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Arthur Paul Ferdinand von Wolff (born June 7, 1828 in Berlin ; † February 13, 1898 in Potsdam ) was a royal Prussian government official, chief president of the German Reich's Court of Auditors , member of the Council of State, canon of Brandenburg .

origin

His parents were the Secret Upper Government Councilor Ludwig Andreas Ferdinand von Wolff (* June 13, 1792 - February 1, 1867) and his wife Sophie Mathilde Luise Hennenberg (* April 23, 1802; † September 11, 1870).

Life

Wolff married Elise von Wurmb from the old Thuringian noble family von Wurmb in Großfurra on May 18, 1858 . In 1846 he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg .

In the first years of his professional career in Prussia, from 1847 onwards, he held positions at the Berlin Superior Court, the Potsdam government, the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and the Frankfurt / Oder government . In 1872 he was appointed district president of Trier , which he was until 1881. From 1881 to 1890 he was President of the Prussian Province of Saxony . From 1890 he was chief president of the Prussian Chamber of Accounts and President of the Court of Accounts of the German Empire in Potsdam, where he died on February 13, 1898 while on duty.

Honors

literature

  • Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of Noble Houses 1902, p. 906.
  • Marcelli Janecki, Handbook of the Prussian Nobility , Volume 2, S.612

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