Christian Adolf Wilhelm Pilgrim

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Christian Adolf Wilhelm Pilgrim (born September 21, 1785 in Königsborn near Unna , † September 6, 1856 in Dortmund ) was a Prussian civil servant and district administrator in the Medebach , Eslohe and Dortmund districts .

Career

Adolf's father, Johann Heinrich Pilgrim, was a Prussian salt works official at the Königsborn salt works . Pilgrim attended the universities in Duisburg and Münster from 1804 to 1806 . He then became an auscultator with the government in Münster . From 1808 Pilgrim worked as a court trainee in Hamm and in 1812 he became the head of the Generalforstad administration in Düsseldorf . In 1815 he became the first secretary at the administrative office of the regional directorate in Dortmund . A year later he was appointed government assessor at the Arnsberg district government . With the royal cabinet order of June 8, 1817, he was appointed the first district administrator of the Medebach district. After the disbandment of the district in 1819, he became the district administrator of the newly formed Eslohe district. But Pilgrim took his official seat in Meschede . In 1833 he was elected district administrator for the Dortmund district. Pilgrim was married to Berta Freifrau von Plettenberg , who died in Meschede in 1825. With her he had three daughters and two sons. One of them was the district president and MP Adolf von Pilgrim .

literature

  • Magdalena Padberg : When we became Prussian. The Sauerland from 1816 to 1849 . Fredeburg 1982. p. 36
  • Erika Richter: Christian Adolph Pilgrim - the first district administrator in the Meschede district . in Hochsauerlandkreis 2013 yearbook , pp. 54–62.
  • Handbook of the Prussian Nobility, Volume 1, 1892, p.456

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Wegmann: The leading state administrative officials of the province of Westphalia 1815-1918. (= Publications of the Historical Commission of Westphalia XXII a; Historical works on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. Volume 1) Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1969, p. 315 f.
personal data
SURNAME Pilgrim, Christian Adolf Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pilgrim, Adolf (= first name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian civil servant and district administrator in the Medebach, Eslohe and Dortmund districts
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsborn near Unna
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1856
Place of death Dortmund