Edwin Gülcher

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German journalist with this pseudonym see Georg Thiemann-Groeg (1881–1953).

Theodor Edwin Gülcher (born on May 4, 1822 in Eupen ; died on October 24, 1870 in Karlsruhe ) was a Prussian administrative officer and district administrator for the Eupen district .

Career

Edwin Gülcher was the son of the cloth manufacturer Jakob Gülcher and his wife Henriette Gülcher, née Hansen. After attending the secondary school in Elberfeld, which he left when he passed his school-leaving examination in 1839, he was a one-year volunteer in the 4th Dragoons Regiment in Deutz in 1841 . Gülcher last held the military rank as Rittmeister a. D. After completing his military service, he received practical training as a farmer , made numerous trips and found employment in the management of goods , including in Hungary . In 1854 he finally founded the Kirchbusch estate near Walhorn.

His political activity began with his election as the mayor of the Walhorn mayor on October 18, 1862. This was followed on August 12, 1868, initially subject to the examination still to be taken, the appointment of the district administrator of the Eupen district. On the following September 5th he took over his new office. The definitive appointment based on the highest cabinet order was issued on August 30, 1869, waiving the pending examination, whereupon Edwin Gülcher was also formally introduced as district administrator on September 30. At the same time, Gülcher took over the post of royal commissioner for Neutral Moresnet from 1868 until his death .

Immediately after the start of the Franco-German War he received his then on September 3, 1870 convening the General Government of Alsace in Haguenau . Gülcher was a bearer of the Red Eagle Order, 4th class.

His successor as district administrator in Eupen was his brother-in-law Alfred Sternickel , who was followed in 1883 by his son Alfred Gülcher .

family

The Protestant Edwin Gülcher married Antonie Sternickel on September 15, 1847 in Eupen (born December 8, 1822 in Eupen; died on March 2, 1881 in Aachen), a daughter of the cloth manufacturer Christian Bernhard Sternickel and his wife Elisabeth Sternickel, née Gülcher. August von Reimann , who managed the Eupen district from 1837 to 1849, was a brother-in-law of Antonie Gülcher, nee Sternickel, through his marriage to Auguste, née Sternickel.

literature

• 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. 487 f .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e} Horst Romeyk: The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816-1945.
2. ↑ ^{a b} C. Rutsch: Eupen and the surrounding area. C. Julius Mayer, Eupen 1879, p. 269.
3. ↑ Royal Commissioners for the neutral area of ​​Moresnet ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.