Friedrich Bernard Hubert Freiherr von Korff

Friedrich Bernard Hubert Freiherr von Korff (born February 2, 1865 in Wesel , † March 8, 1928 in Kassel ) was a German administrative officer, police chief and district administrator.

Life and work

After attending school, Korff initially completed an officer career from 1884 to 1898 , then studied law at the University of Bonn . He spent his legal clerkship at the regional courts in Cologne and Bonn and at the Königswinter district court . From 1904 von Korff first worked as a government trainee with the governments in Cologne and Potsdam , then from January 1907 as a government assessor at the Lauenburg district office .

From June 5, 1907, initially on a provisional basis, after his election on December 18, 1907, on February 12, 1908, he was also officially appointed district administrator of the Malmedy district - today part of East Belgium . He held this office until January 10, 1920, when the area was ceded to Belgium as a result of the Treaty of Versailles .

From February 1920, von Korff was the successor to Karl von Hammacher as police chief of Aachen . At the beginning of 1923 he was taken prisoner together with the Aachen government president Wilhelm Rombach and the government vice president Robert von Görschen due to passive resistance against the highest authority of the areas on the left bank of the Rhine occupied by French and Belgians at that time - the "Interallied Rhineland Commission ". They were released on January 23, 1923, but with the condition that they no longer enter these areas.

In 1924 and 1925, von Korff was head of the police in Bielefeld , and from March 14, 1925, police chief in Kassel. There he died in office in 1928.

Others

Baron von Korff Bridge, Born

During his tenure, the strategic railway line from Born to Vielsalm was built in the Malmedy district . The line branches off in Born by means of a flyover over the Vennbahn . This viaduct, built in 1916 and 285 m long, was named after von Korff.

literature

• 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 .
• Gerhard Schulze: Acta Borussica . The protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817-1934 / 38, Volume 11 / II, p. 624. Hildesheim 2002, ISBN 3-487-11663-4 , bbaw.de (PDF; 1.9 MB) accessed on September 22, 2010.

Web links

• Korff, Friedrich Bernhard Anton Nepomuk Hubert Maria Freiherr von. Hessian biography. (As of February 2, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).