Florens von Bockum-Dolffs (District Administrator, 1842)

Florens Felix Bockum-Dolffs , actually Bockum gen. Dolffs , (* 19th May 1842 in Soest , † 5. January 1939 to house Völlinghausen ) was a Prussian administrative officer and district administrator of the circles Bochum and Soest . He was also entrusted to House Völlinghausen and House Ahse.

Life

origin

Florens Felix von Bockum called Dolffs was a son of the District Administrator of Soest and later a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and the Reichstag Florens von Bockum called Dolffs and his wife Aurelie Melusine Sophie Luise von Bockum called Dolffs born. Countess of Flemming . The family belongs to the old Sassendorfer family of heirs.

Education and career

The sources say nothing about Florens Felix von Bockum-Dolffs' early school education. From his military service , which he performed as a one-year volunteer in the hussar regiment "King Wilhelm I" (1st Rheinisches) No. 7 in Bonn from October 1, 1862 , he had to be dismissed as a half- disabled before the end of his service life.

He studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . He then entered the Prussian judicial service, where he initially found employment as an auscultator at the Hamm Court of Appeal (appointed May 24, 1865). There he was appointed court trainee on June 5, 1867 , before joining the Arnsberg district government as a government trainee on September 16, 1867 . After he had passed the second state law examination on May 17, 1871 , he was appointed government assessor in Arnsberg on June 6th .

A good four months later, von Bockum gen. Dolffs was transferred to the Koblenz district government on October 17, 1871 in the same position . As part of the reoccupation of the vacant post of the Bochum district administrator after the early death of Friedrich von Forell , the district council there declared unanimously on December 20, 1872 that it wanted Florens von Bockum called Dolffs as the new district administrator. Due to a lack of candidates, a formal election was waived and the candidate was appointed district administrator of the Bochum district on February 1, 1873. Almost six years later, on January 1, 1879, he initially took over the administration of the Soest district, from which he was born. On July 25, 1879, the local council elected him unanimously as the first candidate; the definitive transfer from Bochum to Soest took place on August 18, 1879. At his own request, because of his advanced age - he was now 76 years old - he was finally awarded the 8th June 1918 his discharge from the Prussian civil service.

Florens von Bockum called Dolffs was a member of the Order of St. John .

Political commitment

According to his political orientation, von Bockum called the free conservative . Dolffs was a Prussian chamberlain by birth . In addition, he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia in 1884 as a representative of the Prince of Rheina-Wolbeck and from 1898 to 1919 for the constituency of Soest . He was also a member of the Prussian House of Representatives. Regionally he was also chairman of the agricultural district association Soest and chairman of the board of the Ruhr-Lippe-Kleinbahn .

Awards

Von Bockum called Dolffs was repeatedly suggested for higher positions. When he left in 1918, he was awarded the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class with Oak Leaves. He was also a holder of the Royal Crown Order 2nd Class and the Iron Cross 2nd Class on a black and white ribbon .

family

The Protestant von Bockum called Dolffs married Klara Karoline von Flemming from the Basenthin house on June 15, 1871 in Berlin (* November 2, 1853 in Berlin; † March 29, 1943 at the Völlinghausen house), a daughter of the Lord in Basenthin, Zebbin , Benz and Paatzig, Hereditary Land Marshal Franz Wilhelm Karl von Flemming and his wife Franziska von Flemming born. von Schöning from the Sallentin house. The Bockum / Flemming couple had two sons and four daughters.

literature

• Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (Ed.): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978. (= Westphalian source and archive directories , volume 2.) Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 192.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Dietrich Wegmann: The leading state administrative officials of the province of Westphalia 1815-1918. (= Publications of the Historical Commission of Westphalia XXII a; Historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group , volume 1.) Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1969, p. 245 f.