August Karl Weber

August Karl Weber (born September 9, 1859 in Darmstadt ; † May 24, 1940 ibid) was a German lawyer who worked in the civil service of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as a ministerial official and president of the Darmstadt Administrative Court .

Life

Karl August Weber was born in September 1859 as the son of the later Finance Minister August Weber and his wife Antonia Weber. Emmerling (1833–1930) born in Darmstadt. He attended the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium and then studied law . After completing his studies and the subsequent legal clerkship , he joined the state service of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as a government assessor in 1885 . After a short time as police commissioner in Darmstadt, he headed various district offices in Alzey , Mainz and Bensheim from 1888 . In 1895 he became the governmental council appointed. In 1897 he was head of the police office in the capital Darmstadt. In 1899 he became a member of the Administrative Court. In 1900 he moved to the Hessian Ministry of the Interior under Karl Rothe , where he worked as a consultant for higher education and was appointed to the secret government council in 1908 . In 1912 he became president of the Grand Ducal Administrative Court based in Darmstadt, this office he held in his transfer to retire from the 1924th

Since 1888 Weber was married to Henriette Merck (1861-1917), a daughter of the entrepreneur Carl Merck . The marriage resulted in their daughter Marie, born in Mainz in 1890, who had been married to Albrecht von Wachter since 1914. Karl August Weber died in Darmstadt in May 1940 at the age of 80. He was buried in the old cemetery . The tombstone has a bust of him.

In 1898, August Karl Weber and his wife had the architect Heinrich Metzendorf build a villa in the historic style on the property at Herdweg 79 in Darmstadt's Paulusviertel , the so-called Haus Haardteck . It was the first building in this newly emerging district of Darmstadt. This striking building was also popularly known as the “Pillenburg” because Weber was a son-in-law of the Merck family of pharmacists and pharmaceuticals manufacturers. After the death of his wife in the early 1920s, Weber lived in the house at Prinz-Christians-Weg 6 on Mathildenhöhe , one half of the twin villa Prinz-Christians-Weg 6/8, which the architect Friedrich Pützer built in 1901 for two high-ranking officials from the Grand Ducal Ministry of Finance would have.

Awards

As a high-ranking Hessian ministerial official and administrative lawyer, Weber was awarded various medals in recognition of his service achievements, including Prussian and Russian - which reflects the dynastic connections of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Both the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and the Prussian King and German Emperor Wilhelm II. were cousins of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig .

1899: Russian Order of St. Anne, 2nd class
1901: Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Hessian Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous
1903: Russian Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class, with a star
1905: Prussian Red Eagle Order III. class
1907: Hessian Golden Merit Medal for Science and Art (on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the University of Giessen)
1908: Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Darmstadt as Dr.-Ing. Eh , "in recognition of his active care for the further development of the technical university"
1912: Prussian Red Cross Medal III. class
1917: Commander's Cross 1st Class of the Hessian Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous

By 1922 at the latest, Weber also had another honorary doctorate as Dr. jur. hc

literature

Carlo Schneider: The cemeteries in Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1991, p. 12.
Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? 3rd edition 1908, p. 1464.
Joachim Schmidt: Paulusplatz stories. 100 years of the ink district. Darmstadt 2014, p. 19.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Deutsche Bauzeitung , 42nd year 1908, No. 61 (from July 29, 1908), p. 419 f. (Note on the award of an honorary doctorate)
↑ Dominic E. Delarue, Thomas Kaffenberger (Ed.): Shaping living spaces. Heinrich Metzendorf and the reform architecture on Bergstrasse. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2013, ISBN 3-88462-340-0 .
↑ ^a ^b Herrmann AL Degener: Who is it? 8th edition 1922, p. 1649.
^ Regina Stephan (Ed.): Friedrich Pützer. "Poetry into the environment". Buildings and projects. Spurbuchverlag, Baunach 2015, ISBN 978-3-88778-447-8 .

personal data
SURNAME	Weber, August Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, President of the Hessian Administrative Court in Darmstadt
DATE OF BIRTH	September 9, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH	May 24, 1940
Place of death	Darmstadt

[DBZ1908-1] Deutsche Bauzeitung , 42nd year 1908, No. 61 (from July 29, 1908), p. 419 f. (Note on the award of an honorary doctorate)

[2] Dominic E. Delarue, Thomas Kaffenberger (Ed.): Shaping living spaces. Heinrich Metzendorf and the reform architecture on Bergstrasse. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2013, ISBN 3-88462-340-0 .

[Degener22-3] Herrmann AL Degener: Who is it? 8th edition 1922, p. 1649.

[4] Regina Stephan (Ed.): Friedrich Pützer. "Poetry into the environment". Buildings and projects. Spurbuchverlag, Baunach 2015, ISBN 978-3-88778-447-8 .