Ernst von Heyking

Ernst August Julius Baron von Heyking (born December 14, 1862 in Neuchâtel , West Prussia , † May 15, 1940 in Görlitz ) was a German administrative lawyer and a member of the Kingdom of Prussia .

origin

His parents were the district judge Moritz Theodor Dietrich von Heyking (born January 25, 1832) and his wife Klara Maria Theresia von Suchten (born March 22, 1833).

Life

Coming from a Baltic family, v. Heyking the high schools in Marienburg and in Gdansk . He then enrolled at the Albertus University in Königsberg for law and political science . In 1881 he became active in the Corps Baltia Königsberg . When he was inactive , he moved to the University of Jena , the Friedrichs-Universität Halle and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin .

After he had passed the first state examination in law in 1884, he became a trainee lawyer in the Marienwerder district on October 10, 1884. In 1886 he went over to the administration and served in the government in Danzig . In 1891 he was administrator of the Pinneberg district office . In 1892 he worked on the income tax of the city of Altona for the government in Schleswig . From 1895 he was back in the government in Danzig. In 1898 he was appointed government assessor in Danzig. In 1899 he was caretaker of the district office of Pless . After serving as in Danzig Government had been hired, he was still in 1899 the district appointed at Pless.

From 1904 he was a conservative member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency of Pleß-Rybnik in Upper Silesia . In 1908 he was defeated by the center and the Poles in his constituency.

From 1908 to 1911 he headed the Police Headquarters in Poznan . In 1911 he was appointed governor of the province of Poznan . As such he was also the representative of the German Red Cross at the line command in Posen; repeatedly he brought trains with gifts of love to the (Poznan) 5th Army Corps (German Empire) at the front. In Poznan he was chairman of the District Association of Old Corps Students .

Districts of the Province of Posen-West Prussia

After the First World War and the November Revolution remained in office, he lost "his" province of Posen through the assignment of territory. He had to move to Meseritz and there became governor of the Posen-West Prussia border region , to which the western remnants of two Prussian provinces were combined. He lived first in Obrawalde near Meseritz, later in Görlitz, where he took an active part in the life of the corps student .

In 1894 he became an honorary knight, in 1904 a legal knight of the Order of St. John .

Awards

Order of the bust of Bolivar 3rd class (1902)
Red Eagle Order 4th Class (1906)
Franz Joseph Order , Commander in Chief (1910)
Royal Crown Order (Prussia) 3rd class (1910)
Red Eagle Order 3rd Class with Ribbon (1913)
Iron Cross on a White Ribbon (December 1915)
Red Cross Medal (Prussia) 3rd class (1916)

Fonts

Justification of the governor of the province of Poznan Ernst von Heyking in the matter of his dismissal by disciplinary means at the request of the Supreme Polish People's Council in Poznan in May 1919 . Book printing of the state administration, Meseritz 1919.
History of the Barons von Heyking family belonging to the Kurland indigenous nobility . Typewritten manuscript, Görlitz 1934, 3 volumes ( digitized version of a handwritten version of volume 1 of the Lithuanian National Library )

literature

Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51 and the history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. (1970-1985). For the first time complete, illustrated and commented new edition in two volumes with an appendix, two registers and a foreword by Franz-Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, edited by R. Döhler and G. v. Klitzing, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6

Florian Tennstedt : Heinrich Noetel and the beginnings of accident prevention in German agriculture; A study on the history of the "Association of German Agricultural Professional Associations" . In: Social Security in Agriculture. Prevention in agricultural social insurance , published by the Federal Association of Agricultural Employers' Liability Insurance Associations, 1976, pp. 103–116, here especially p. 110 ( digital copy )

Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses , Justus Perthes , Gotha 1901. First volume, p. 409

Web links

Literature by and about Ernst von Heyking in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 86/163.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51 and the history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. (1970-1985). For the first time complete, illustrated and commented new edition in two volumes with an appendix, two registers and a foreword by Franz-Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, edited by R. Döhler and G. v. Klitzing, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Heyking, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heyking, Ernst August Julius Baron von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian government official and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 14, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neuchâtel , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	May 15, 1940
Place of death	Goerlitz

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 86/163.

[SiSch-2] Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51 and the history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. (1970-1985). For the first time complete, illustrated and commented new edition in two volumes with an appendix, two registers and a foreword by Franz-Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, edited by R. Döhler and G. v. Klitzing, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6 .