Ferdinand Rintelen

Ferdinand Klemens Otto Rintelen (born October 25, 1839 in Münster ; died December 2, 1930 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German district administrator in the Daun district (1876–1881) and the Bernkastel district (1881–1903).

Life

The Catholic Ferdinand Rintelen was the son of the lawyer and notary Eduard Karl Hermann Rintelen and his wife Louise Rintelen, née Bundemann. He was given his first lessons by private tutors before he took further school lessons at a grammar school in his hometown of Munster. At the age of 17 he finally joined the 13th Infantry Regiment as an avantageur . He actively participated as an officer in the German-Danish War of 1864 and in the war against Austria in 1866. “Suffering from a stubborn rheumatic back ailment” he asked for his departure in 1868, leaving him as an inactive officer during the Franco-German War No longer did military service in 1870/71.

After serving in the Prussian military for 12 years, Rintelen was employed in the Prussian administrative service. He was first appointed from September 30, 1869 as a bailiff in Sprockhövel and from December 12, 1874 in the same position in Ibbenbüren . With the implementation of the previous Daun district administrator, Peter Eich , by means of a transfer decree of September 29, 1876 and when he took up his duties in Kleve on November 5 , Rintelen received his appointment as the new district administrator of the Daun district on a temporary basis with a decree of November 28, 1876 Eifel . A year later, with the highest cabinet order of December 12, 1877, he was appointed subject to the examination.

former district administration in Daun, Leopoldstr. 9 (2016)

Rintelen did not get to these administrative offices through a regular training path (legal or cameralistic studies plus a final state examination) and was therefore subject to an examination for the purpose of proving his qualifications. Along with August von Harlem ( Prüm district ), he was one of the last candidates for district office positions in the Rhine Province to be subjected to these tests. The superior authority, the Royal Prussian Government in Trier, insisted on accepting the test at von Harlem and Rintelen, while the incumbent President of the Rhine Province Moritz von Bardeleben pointed out that in similar cases it had also been dispensed . Ultimately, the Prussian Minister of the Interior met in both cases with a rescript dated November 9, 1877, that a dispensation would only be requested at the highest level “if the candidate presented by the electorate for a district office belonged to the respected and influential landowners of the district and there are no doubts about its practical usefulness for the position as district administrator ”. This was not the case with von Harlem and Rintelen. The Minister of the Interior went on to write: “Since the personal influence that naturally arises for the resident Landratsamt candidates from their status as landowners in the district is not present, all the more value will be placed on them their formal qualifications have no reservations ”. The exams of the candidates produced the usual results, that the written test work was definitely in need of improvement, but the oral exam and the achievements so far shown in practice spoke for the candidates, according to Rintelen after fulfilling the condition, from the appointment of December 1877, on March 16, 1878 received the definitive appointment as district administrator in Daun on April 1, 1878.

When Rintelen began his service in Daun, the Daun district was at an economic low point. Larger waves of emigration, poor medical care that contributed to the high child mortality and the poorly supplying the locals, agriculture, which was characterized by crop failures, and the inadequate transport infrastructure drove him during his five-year term in office. The decision on which route a railway connection from Gerolstein should be built through the district was made only after he left Daun.

Barely three years after your definitive appointment in Daun, Rintelen followed, after the previous district administrator in Bernkastel had been transferred, Friedrich von Kühlwetter , who moved to Düsseldorf in June 1881 , at his previous place of employment on the Moselle. Appointed provisionally on August 13, 1881, he received on May 17, 1882 the definitive appointment as the new district administrator of the Bernkastel district. He stayed there until his retirement on May 1, 1903 on request and with Dimissoriale from April 15. Rintelen was obviously enjoying himself as a good district administrator, with a humble appearance in the Bernkastel district. As district administrator, he also made particular efforts there to strengthen the traffic routes and here the development through the construction of the Moselle and Hunsrück railways . The latter cut through the Bernkastel district in its part south of the Moselle in an east-west direction; the sections in question were opened shortly before and after his retirement.

family

Ferdinand von Rintelen married the Protestant Josephine von Lom in Wesel on September 20, 1860 (born on March 7, 1842 at Gut Westervoort ; died on May 14, 1919 in Bad Godesberg), daughter of the landowner Albert von Lom and his wife Maria von Lom , née Visser. The children from the Rintelen / von Lom marriage were raised Protestants. During the Kulturkampf , the couple's mixed confessional marriage caused difficulties.

Bad Godesberg, Rüngsdorfer Str. 31 (2012)

As a retired district administrator and honored with the character of a privy councilor , Rinteln died in Bad Godesberg, Rüngsdorfer Str. 31, where the couple spent the last years of their lives.

Web links

• Entry on Ferdinand Rintelen in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} 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. 694 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Claudia Schmitt: Middendorf, Hermann, District Administrator, Government Director in: Heinz Monz (Hrsg.): Trier biographical lexicon . Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , p. 373 (note the writings listed there do not come from the pen of Ferdinand Rintelen, but from Viktor Rintelens and can partly be found again in his short biography immediately below R. then moved to Ibbenbüren in 1872 and not in 1874 and left the military in 1868).
3. ^ 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. 428 .
4. ^ 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. 171 and note 171 f .
5. ↑ Nico Sastges: District Rintelen 1876-1881 in: Daun. Leopoldstrasse 9 ( District administration Daun (ed.)): District Daun. Heimatjahrbuch 1982 , Weiss-Druck, Monschau 1981, ISSN  0720-6976 , p. 152–158, here p. 155 f. with picture.
6. ^ 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. 590 .
7. ↑ Landesarchiv NRW, Rhineland Department, PA 3103 (civil status register deaths), no. 10468, Godesberg, document no. 159 from May 15, 1919 (according to her death certificate, her father was called Bernhard von Lom) digital
8. ^ 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. 30 .
9. ↑ Landesarchiv NRW, Rhineland Department, PA 3103 (civil status register deaths), No. 10480, Godesberg, document No. 262 of December 2, 1930 digital