August of Harlem

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Friedrich Ulrich Heinrich August von Harlem (born August 20, 1825 in Berlin ; died December 27, 1892 in Rostock ) was a Prussian district administrator in the Prüm and Saarlouis districts .

Life

Origin and education

The Protestant August von Harlem was born as the son of the secret councilor August Otto Johann Georg von Harlem and his wife Albertine Eleonore Amalie Elisabeth von Harlem, née von Maltzahn, a Dordrecht council family. After attending the Friedrich-Werderscher Gymnasium in Berlin and the pedagogy in Putbus , he passed the school leaving examination in October 1843 and then began studying law in Humboldt- Berlin . With the completion of his studies on January 19, 1847 for further training as an auscultator in the Prussian judicial service, where he found employment with the chambers of justice in Schwedt and Frankfurt (Oder) , before he left the judicial service on February 28, 1849. After completing his legal clerkship (legal traineeship in Potsdam in 1850), von Harlem finally joined the Prussian Ministry of the Interior as a government trainee on October 5, 1850, where he was assigned to the royal governments in Potsdam and Stralsund . Resigned July 1853 to manage his estates.

During the Franco-Prussian War , the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg appointed him, in his function as governor of the occupied French departments, as prefect to Reims , where he stayed until the German administration was abolished on April 1, 1871. In the following years, Harlem occupied several Administrative offices in Mecklenburg.

District Administrator in Prüm 1876 to 1882

Two years after the death of his wife in 1873, August von Harlem was commissioned provisionally as Hardesvogt in Hohn (Schleswig) on October 1, 1875 . This was followed on October 1, 1876, when the administration of the Prüm district was also provisionally transferred, where he took up his post on October 24, succeeding Hugo Strom .

Harlem did not get to the position of District Administrator in Prüm by way of the regular training path (legal or cameralistic studies plus a final state examination) and was therefore subject to an examination for the purpose of proving his qualifications. Along with Ferdinand Rintelen ( Daun district ), he was one of the last candidates for district administration positions in the Rhine Province who still had to produce this qualification. The superior authority, the Royal Prussian Government in Trier, insisted on accepting the examination at von Harlem and Rintelen, while the incumbent President of the Rhine Province Moritz von Bardeleben issued a dispensation in similar cases. With a rescript dated November 9, 1877, the Prussian Minister of the Interior decided in principle that a dispensation would only be sought at the highest level “if the candidate presented by the electoral classes for a district office was one of the respected and influential landowners in the district and with regard to his practicality There are no doubts about the usefulness of the position as district administrator ”. This was not the case with von Harlem and Rintelen. The Minister of the Interior went on to write on this: “Since the personal influence that naturally arises for the resident Landratsamt candidates from their status as landowners in the district is not present, it will be all the more important that in regard to their formal Qualification do not have any concerns ”. The candidates' exams produced the usual results, that the written test work was definitely in need of improvement, but the oral examination and the achievements so far demonstrated in practice spoke for the candidates. In writing, Harlem had to deal with a task from the road construction department, which was rated as “passed sufficiently”. His oral one also received the grade "passed". With the fulfillment of the condition, from the appointment of October 1877, Harlem received the definitive appointment as district administrator in Prüm on March 25, 1878.

Appointed presbyter of the evangelical parish in Prüm as early as 1877, Harlem faced great hardship. Hunger, bad harvests and unfavorable weather conditions alternated. In the years 1882 to 1885, 15,000 inhabitants of the district were without bread and potatoes. His commitment to building a railway from Jünkerath via Prüm to St. Vith and for a route from Erdorf via Bitburg to Echternach was only fulfilled a few years later. The large approval of the population of the constituency in 1879 for liberal parties, but also for the center, was not approved. Any effort is superfluous, since the residents obviously obey orders from third parties and lack the intellectual capacity to understand anything other than the center papers.

In his appraisals of the district president in Trier, which are attached to the personnel file, characteristic sentences about von Harlem can be read repeatedly: "Even if we do not find the degree of business and academic training from the gen. Von Harlem that can be expected from a former government assessor, So he has, in addition to the necessary interest in service, but also unmistakably great skill in dealing with his administrators and handling business matters practically, whereby he benefits from some of the experience of his changeable career so far, namely the agricultural knowledge acquired as a landowner, and in the throughout the arable farming population of the district to great recommendation. "

District Administrator in Saarlouis 1882 to 1888

The climatic conditions in the Eifel probably did not say so of Harlem, so that on August 15, 1881 he asked for his recall. Following on from Otto von Dewitz , who moved to Prüm instead and had previously headed the Saarlouis district for a year and a half, Harlem transferred administration in Saarlouis on October 10, 1882, also on a provisional basis. The final appointment followed on July 12, 1883. Put up for sale on April 1, 1888 , von Harlem then lived in Metz , with a daughter, and then moved to Saarburg before returning to Mecklenburg in 1891, where he died in Rostock the following year.

In Saarlouis, von Harlem u. a. Colonies of workers and combated vagabondness. He had a natural catering facility set up for poor travelers, promoted fruit growing and founded a district aid fund.

family

August von Harlem married on July 14, 1854 in Lüssow Anna Wilhelmine Pauly (born on January 20, 1828 in Vietschow near Teterow ; died on October 6, 1873 in Ratzeburg ), the daughter of Carl August Pauly in Vietschow and his wife Antonette Wilhelmine Pauly , née Stein. A son of the couple, Dietrich von Harlem (1859-1928) later became district administrator in Ottweiler (1892-1896) and Celle (1899-1920).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816-1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 507 .
  2. ↑ Horst Romeyk: Harlem, August v, District Administrator in: Heinz Monz (Ed.): Trier biographical lexicon . Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , p. 156.
  3. ^ A b c d e f Peter Neu: b) Heinrich August von Harlem, District Administrator in Prüm 1876–1882 in: District Councilors of the Bitburg – Prüm district . In: District Administrator of the Bitburg – Prüm District (ed.): Home Calendar 1979 for the Bitburg – Prüm District , Bitburg 1978, p. 34 and illustration on p. 35.
  4. ^ A b c Franz Josef Faas: 14th District Administrator Friedrich Heinrich August von Harlem in: The district administrators of the Prüm district. In: District Administrator of the Prüm District (Ed.): Yearbook District Prüm 1968, Prüm 1967, p. 31.
  5. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 171 and note 171 f .
  6. ↑ See also: Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 241 u. Note 541 .
  7. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 506 .
personal data
SURNAME Harlem, August of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harlem, Friedrich Ulrich Heinrich August von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator for the Prüm district (1876–1882) and Saarlouis (1882–1888)
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1892
Place of death Rostock