Friedrich von Kesseler

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Friedrich von Kesseler

Friedrich Hubert Hermann Heinrich von Kesseler (born July 9, 1867 at Vogelsang House near Vogelsang (Cologne) ; died April 4, 1940 in Pattern ) was a Prussian district administrator in the Monschau district (1905 to 1917) and subsequently in the Eupen district (1917 to 1920 ).

Life

origin

Friedrich von Kesseler was a descendant of a Jülich family. His parents were the manor owner Franz von Kesseler (born January 21, 1830) and his wife Klara von Kesseler, née Simons (born February 8, 1827). His uncle was Eugen von Kesseler , a member of the Reichstag .

education

After attending the higher city school in Ahrweiler and the grammar schools in Koblenz and Düren , he passed the school leaving examination in 1889 . He then studied law and political science at the universities in Louvain , Munich , Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin and Bonn from 1889 to 1892, before taking his first legal examination on November 4, 1893. After being sworn in to the court clerk on 21 November 1893, he continued his legal training at the District Court Opladen and the Cologne Regional Court continued and stepped over to the November 21, 1895 and appointed government clerk in the Prussian administrative services. There he found employment with the Royal Prussian Governments in Aachen and Hanover , before he was transferred to the District Office of Düren as an unskilled worker after passing the Grand State Examination and being appointed government assessor (March 10, 1899) and on December 19, 1901 moved to the police headquarters in Breslau .

Career

Due to the transfer of the previous District Administrator of the Monschau district, Theodor von Guérard , to the Upper Presidium of the Rhine Province on April 1, 1905, Friedrich von Kesseler was entrusted with the provisional administration of the District Office on March 21, 1905. His definitive appointment as District Administrator of the Monschau district followed on June 1, 1906. He remained in this position until the beginning of the fourth year of the First World War .

After the district of Eupen had only been administered by order or provisionally on August 6, 1914, since its last district administrator, Walter The Losen , was temporarily retired , most recently by Friedrich von Zitzewitz , von Kesseler became involved with the decree of September 28, 1917 commissioned by the temporary administration. Taking up his new post on October 9th, he received his formal transfer to Eupen on July 23rd, 1918 before the end of the war. While the Eupen district fell to the Kingdom of Belgium as a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty at the beginning of 1920 , Friedrich von Kesseler was retired on September 1, 1920 by decree of August 17, 1920.

family

Wittgenstein House

The Catholic Friedrich von Kesseler married Theresia von Wittgenstein on November 26, 1902 in Cologne (born March 29, 1880 at Haus Loo; died December 5, 1927 in Bonn), a daughter of the manor owner Otto von Wittgenstein and his wife, Huberta von Wittgenstein , née Kocks. Heinrich von Wittgenstein was her great-grandfather. An older brother of his was Maximilian von Kesseler , who was also a district administrator.

After the death of his widowed and childless sister-in-law Sibylle von Wittgenstein, Friedrich von Kessler and his wife inherited the Wittgenstein house in Roisdorf . They then had a boundary stone with the initials "vK" erected and a new wrought-iron grille made with the coat of arms of the Kesseler family and the year 1918. Later the house was bequeathed to Friedrich Franz Freiherr von Proff-Irnich von Kesseler (1905-1984), after whose death the plant was sold by the community of heirs to the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party .

literature

  • Handbook of the Prussian Nobility, Volume 1, 1892, p. 259

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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. 565 f .
  2. ^ Portrait of House Wittgenstein , on the pages of Heimatfreunde Roisdorf e. V.
personal data
SURNAME Kesseler, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kesseler, Friedrich Hubert Hermann Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Vogelsang House (Cologne) near Vogelsang (Cologne)
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1940
Place of death Pattern