Franz Garenfeld

Franz Garenfeld (born June 6, 1775 in Odenspiel , † September 11, 1824 in Gummersbach ) was a Prussian administrative officer and district administrator for the Homburg and Gimborn districts .

Life

The Protestant Franz Garenfeld was born as the son of the pastor and inspector (assessor) Johann Peter Garenfeld and Maria Catharina Garenfeld, born in 1801. Wilhelmi born. At the time of his marriage to Friederike Abel in the summer of 1808, he was employed as Countess von Wallmodischer Rentmeister in Gimborn. The von Wallmoden family owned Gimborn Castle from 1781 to 1813 . On May 10, 1816, Garenfeld became the first and only district administrator in the newly formed Gimborn district. Since November 1818, after the death of the local district administrator Carl Ludwig Ferdinand Pollmann , he managed the administrative district of Homburg in personal union . Previously, the Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg had given his approval with the proviso that Garenfeld signed all documents relating to Homburg as "District Administrator of the Gimborn and Homburg districts". With the relocation of the previous two official seats to Gummersbach in February 1819, the district of the same name was practically created. The formal establishment of the same, through the merger of the Gimborn and Homburg districts, did not take place until five months after Garenfeld's death with a cabinet order of February 17, 1825.

literature

• Max Bär : The administrative constitution of the Rhine province since 1815. (Publications of the Society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde XXXV), Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998 (second reprint of the Bonn 1919 edition), ISBN 3-7700-7600-1 , p. 262
• 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. 461 .