Georg von Eucken-Addenhausen

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Georg Udo Victor von Eucken-Addenhausen (born July 29, 1855 in Aurich , † May 1, 1942 at Gut Addenhausen near Neuharlingersiel ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Georg Eucken was born in 1855 as the son of the Royal Hanoverian Rittmeister Carl Eucken (* July 22, 1825 - November 6, 1893) and his wife Caroline von Frese (* October 9, 1831 - March 30, 1916). The name affix Addenhausen was given to him by King Georg V of Hanover after the name of the family estate in East Friesland .

He attended high school in his hometown, studied law and political science at the universities in Marburg , Munich , Tübingen and Strasbourg and was a legal trainee in Aurich, Isenhagen , Göttingen , Wiesbaden , Hanover and Merseburg from 1877 to 1881 . During his training his doctorate he 1879 in Jena to the Dr. iur. In 1884 he passed his assessor exam .

Georg von Eucken-Addenhausen was married to Marianne Charlotte Emma Mathilde Oppermann (* July 8, 1860, † May 13, 1942) and had four children.

Act

Eucken held his first position as a local politician from 1881 as the first mayor of Jena . On April 1, 1885, he was introduced to the office of Lord Mayor of the Thuringian city of Eisenach , which he held until his appointment as District Director of the Eisenach administrative district in May 1893. From 1894 to 1902 he was a member of the parliament and at times also vice-president of the state parliament of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . In 1902 he was appointed as a lecturer in the Reich Office of the Interior , where he edited the new version of the Health Insurance Act and took over the supervision of the Kiel Canal and the Reichspoststampferlinien . At the request of Grand Duke Friedrich August II of Oldenburg , whom he met in Travemünde in 1905 , Eucken switched to the Oldenburg civil service and on October 25, 1905 was appointed envoy to Prussia and permanent representative of the Federal Council in Berlin , at the same time he was appointed representative for entrusted the Duchy of Anhalt and the principalities of Lippe-Detmold and Schaumburg-Lippe . On September 27, 1906 he was raised to the Oldenburg nobility and in 1913 was awarded the Order of Henry the Lion, 1st class. During the First World War , Eucken did military service from 1914 to 1916 and received several awards. He then resumed his post as Federal Councilor, which he resigned on November 12, 1918, on the day of the resignation of the Oldenburg Grand Duke. In 1919 he acted for a short time as a representative of the Oldenburg and Lippe state governments at the constituent national assembly in Weimar and then moved to his Sielhof estate in Neuharlingersiel .

In 1932 he became President of the East Frisian Estates, from 1934 to 1942 he was President of the East Frisian Landscape . He was also a member of the Central Committee for the Inner Mission of the German Evangelical Church , patron of the East Frisian Farmers College and - since 1908 - a member of the East Frisian Knighthood. He was also a board member of the German War Association , member of the executive committee of the German Association for Insurance Science and board member of several commercial enterprises . In addition, he also tried to expand adult education, for which he had already campaigned in 1906. In 1924 he played a key role in founding the first folk high schools in Jever and Aurich based on the Danish model. Since 1874 he was a member of the Corps Borussia Tübingen .

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  1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses. 1903. Fourth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1902, p. 302.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 127 , 48
personal data
SURNAME Eucken-Addenhausen, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eucken-Addenhausen, Georg Udo Victor von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurich
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1942
Place of death Gut Addenhausen near Neuharlingersiel