Eugen von Wagenhoff

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Eugene v. Wagenhoff

Odoardo Ernst Eugen Adolph von Wagenhoff (born February 22, 1874 in Berlin , † February 4, 1958 in Gifhorn ) was a German administrative lawyer and landowner.

Life

Eugene v. Wagenhoff was the son of the manor owner of the Dankwitz estates in the Nimptsch district and Kulmikau in the Steinau district and later major general Ernst Eugen von Wagenhoff (1850-1929). After attending the Askanisches Gymnasium, he studied law at the University of Lausanne , the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . From 1894 he was a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . After the state examination and the doctorate to Dr. iur. he entered the Prussian administrative service. As a government assessor , he was initially employed as a laborer in the Osthavelland district and in the Prussian Ministry for Agriculture, Domains and Forests . Wagenhoff was then as successor to Louis of the Wense 1908-1937 District Administrator of the district Gifhorn , where he in the bog cultivation as a settlement founder and namesake of the community Wagenhoff emerged. He did a great job building roads, paths and bridges in the district and ensured the electrification of the villages. Wagenhoff is one of the founders of the Kreissparkasse Gifhorn .

He was a member of the Hanover Provincial Parliament from 1918 as a successor until 1919, but resigned when the local workers 'and soldiers' council demanded that he be removed from his position as district administrator. With his successor in the provincial parliament, the farmer Christian Thielhorn , he suffered a serious traffic accident in 1929, in which Thielhorn died. Wagenhoff became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 . In August 1937 he was suspected of being close to the Confessing Church by the Secret State Police . At his own request, he was retired on October 1, 1937.

He kept the Dankwitz estate until 1945. Most recently he lived in Dannenbüttel .

Fonts

  • List of members of the Saxo-Borussia in Heidelberg with details of later living conditions etc. , 1896
  • List of members of Saxo-Borussia in Heidelberg with details of later living conditions etc. , 1920

Awards

  • Honorary member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg

literature

  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 375–376.
  • Stefan Felleckner: The Gifhorner District Administrator Dr. Eugene v. Wagenhoff in a new perspective , district of Gifhorn u. a., Gifhorn 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 66 , 1017.
  2. ↑ Critical to this: Stefan Felleckner: The Gifhorner District Administrator Dr. Eugene v. Wagenhoff in a new perspective
personal data
SURNAME Wagenhoff, Eugen von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagenhoff, Odoardo Ernst Eugen Adolph von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1958
Place of death Gifhorn