August Henning von Kröcher

August Henning von Kröcher (born December 18, 1817 in Vinzelberg ; † 1887 ) was a Prussian civil servant and member of the Prussian manor house . He also excelled as a genealogist.

Life

August von Kröcher came from the noble family Kröcher and was the son of Wilhelm von Kröcher (1782–1861), regional director of the Altmark and landlord on Vinzelberg , Vollenschier , Plutowo ( district Kulm (Weichsel) ), Gluchowo (Glauchau) and Falenczyn, and Sophie Countess of Alvensleben (1790–1848). The Prussian Finance Minister Albrecht Graf von Alvensleben (1794-1858) was his uncle (his mother's brother).

Kröcher studied law and served as a trainee lawyer (1841) and assessor (1845) at the Court of Appeal from the preparatory service for the Prussian judicial service. During this time, as Supreme Court Assessor to Kröcher involved in the establishment of a beet - sugar factory in Klein Oschersleben .

In 1847 he was a laborer for the government in Koblenz . A year later he went completely into the administrative service as a government assessor. In 1849 Kröcher was an unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. In 1851 he was appointed to the government council and moved again to the government in Koblenz. A year later he returned to the Ministry of the Interior.

Kröcher was a member of the "Commission for the Revision of the Constitution", which was active in September and October 1852. In 1855 he was appointed to the Secret Government Council and in 1857 to the Secret Upper Government Council.

From 1851 Kröcher was a member of the Brandenburg Provincial Parliament and from 1863 also a member of the Prussian manor house . He was appointed on the basis of a special royal trust. Among other things, he was a member of the matriculation commission, secretary and rapporteur for important bills. He was also a member of the manor's general board.

He also distinguished himself as an explorer of the Kröcher family through a multi-volume work.

Kröcher was a landlord on Deetz with Käthen and Wilhelmshof in the district of Gardelegen ( Province of Saxony ). He also owned the 2,500 acre large forest district Sichau with Tarnefitz in circles Gardelegen, which he in 1886, a year before his death, his nephew, the Prussian chamberlain and manor Member Ludolf Udo von Alvensleben inherited (1852-1923). He was also the lord of Plutowo ( district of Kulm (Vistula) ), Gluchowo (now part of Chełmża ) and Falenczyn in West Prussia . At least Plutowo also came into the possession of his nephew Alvensleben in 1908, whose mother was August's sister Ehrengard von Kröcher .

Works

History of the family of Kröcher . Berlin 1864-1865
- Volume 1: Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries . 1865 digitized
- Volume 2: 15th to 19th centuries . 1864 digitized
Document book on the history of the family von Kröcher . Berlin 1864-1865
- Volume 1: 1184-1440 . 1865 digitized
- Volume 2: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries . 1864 digitized
Appendix to the history of the sex of Kröcher . Berlin 1868 digitized

literature

Bärbel Holtz (edit.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 4 / II. (1848-1858). Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-487-11825-4 , ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Acta Borussica . New series.) Digitized

Individual evidence

↑ Family table Alvensleben-Erxleben
↑ Der Kulturkampf , Verlag F. Luckhardt, 1880, page 16 ( excerpt )
↑ Hans-Jürgen Rach, Bernhard Weissel: Agriculture and Capitalism. On the development of the economic and social conditions in the Magdeburger Börde from the end of the 18th century to the end of the First World War , Akademie-Verlag, 1960, page 250 ( excerpt )
↑ ^a ^b Hermann Krüger (Ed.): Chronicle of the Prussian manor house. A commemorative book to commemorate the manor's 30th anniversary . Berlin, 1885 p. 182
↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New General German Adels Lexicon , 1864, page 294 ( digitized version )
^ Family von Alvensleben-Erxleben; No. XIV, 17
^ Caroline Ehrengard von Kröcher (* July 13, 1821 at Gut Vinzelberg; † April 27, 1895 in Hanover). Source: von Alvensleben-Erxleben family; No. XIV, 14

personal data
SURNAME	Kröcher, August Henning von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian civil servant and member of the Prussian manor house
DATE OF BIRTH	December 18, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vinzelberg
DATE OF DEATH	1887

[1] Family table Alvensleben-Erxleben

[2] Der Kulturkampf , Verlag F. Luckhardt, 1880, page 16 ( excerpt )

[3] Hans-Jürgen Rach, Bernhard Weissel: Agriculture and Capitalism. On the development of the economic and social conditions in the Magdeburger Börde from the end of the 18th century to the end of the First World War , Akademie-Verlag, 1960, page 250 ( excerpt )

[krueger182-4] Hermann Krüger (Ed.): Chronicle of the Prussian manor house. A commemorative book to commemorate the manor's 30th anniversary . Berlin, 1885 p. 182

[5] Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New General German Adels Lexicon , 1864, page 294 ( digitized version )

[6] Family von Alvensleben-Erxleben; No. XIV, 17

[7] Caroline Ehrengard von Kröcher (* July 13, 1821 at Gut Vinzelberg; † April 27, 1895 in Hanover). Source: von Alvensleben-Erxleben family; No. XIV, 14