August Beckhaus

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Karl Friedrich August Beckhaus (born January 4, 1877 in Bielefeld ; † December 9, 1945 in the Staumühle internment camp ) was a German government official and politician in Prussia .

family

Beckhaus came from a Westphalian family that derived its name from Gut Beckhausen near Ergste in Westphalia. As the son of the medical council Dr. med. Guy Hermann Beckhaus and Friederike Henriette Karoline Jung born in Bielefeld. He was with Margarete Antonie Auguste Klara geb. Klasing (1883–1927), daughter of the lawyer and notary Heinrich August Klasing.

Life

After graduating from high school in Bielefeld in 1897, he studied law at the University of Lausanne , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

After the first state examination in law at the Kiel Higher Regional Court, he began his legal clerkship in 1901 as a trainee lawyer at the Hamm Higher Regional Court . In 1903 he received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig as a Doctor iuris utriusque and then worked as a government trainee with the government in Magdeburg until his second state examination in law. He did not do military service. In 1906 he was appointed government assessor. As such, he was referred in 1906 to the District Administrator of the Usedom-Wollin district and in 1908 to the District Administrator of the Bielefeld district for assistance.

In 1909 he was entrusted with taking over the municipal administration of the District Office of Bielefeld. The district council waived its right of proposal and unanimously appointed Beckhaus as district administrator on November 18, 1909 . He initially held the office on a provisional basis until he was finally appointed as the successor to Franz von Ditfurth to the district administrator of the Bielefeld district in the then Prussian province of Westphalia . He held this office for over 27 years.

In addition, Beckhaus was elected in 1909 by the constituency of Bielefeld-Land as a member of the Prussian Provincial Parliament of Westphalia, to which he belonged for 11 years until 1920. He belonged to the DNVP , a few years to the DVP and from 1939 to the NSDAP .

In December 1937 he was appointed government vice-president in Cologne and retired in November 1943 because he had reached the age limit. He was also the chairman of the agricultural district association in Bielefeld and a member of the supervisory board of various municipal companies.

In July 1945 August Beck House without charge or finding of individual guilt allegation as part of was automatic arrest in the British Army of the Rhine in Staumühle in Hövelhof powered Staumühle internment interned, where he died on December 9, 1945. exhaustion.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Haeming: The members of the Westphalia parliament 1826 - 1978. Verlag des Landschaftverb. Westfalen-Lippe, Administrative Archives, Münster 1978, p. 174
  2. ↑ Short biography in the Westphalian History portal

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918 - 1945/46) - biographical manual. Aschendorff Verlag , Münster 2004
  • Josef Haeming: The members of the Westphalia parliament 1826 - 1978. Verlag des Landschaftverb. Westfalen-Lippe, administrative archive, Münster 1978, addendum 1983
  • Dietrich Wegmann: The leading state administrative officials of the province of Westphalia 1815 - 1918. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1969
  • Bernhard Koerner (Hrsg.): Westphalian gender book. Volume 1, Starcke Verlag, Görlitz 1940
  • Hedwig Castendyk: The Beckhaus family from Gut Beckhausen near Ergste in Westphalia with their previously known branches. Bielefeld, self-publ. 1934

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personal data
SURNAME Beckhaus, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckhaus, Karl Friedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German government official and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1945
Place of death Staumühle internment camp