Friedrich von Velsen

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Friedrich von Velsen, photo: around 1940

Friedrich Carl Ludwig von Velsen (born October 30, 1871 in Dortmund , † September 24, 1953 in Detmold ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer and member of the DNVP .

family

His parents were the Prussian Bergrat Wilhelm von Velsen (1828-1894) and Caroline Vogt gen. Schulze Hoeing (1837-1917). Friedrich von Velsen's older brother was the Prussian Oberbergrat and industrialist Otto von Velsen (1869–1945). His cousin was the writer and women's rights activist Dorothee von Velsen (1883–1970). He married Dora Marie Ziegler (1876–1944) in Dortmund in 1896 , their youngest daughter married the later General Heinrich Wintzer (1892–1947).

Life

After passing the state examination at the University of Tübingen and the subsequent legal clerkship , he submitted the work Die exceptiones praeiudiciales , published three years earlier, as a court trainee in 1899 . Exceptiones, si praeiudicium rei maiori non fiat (printer W. Startz jr., Cleve 1896) as a legal dissertation .

In 1906 Velsen was a Councilor to the Prefect of the Province of Saxony appointed. In the same year he was appointed Finance Council in the Prussian Ministry of Finance. In 1911 he was appointed to the Secret Finance Council and Lecturing Council, and after 1913 to the Secret Upper Finance Council.

From 1917 to 1933 he worked as the district president of the Hanover district government , most recently in 1933 as the representative of the senior president . In the course of the dismissal of the Prussian state government Braun-Severing ( Preussenschlag ), he was appointed provisional high president of the province of Saxony by the Papen government in the summer of 1932 . In March 1933 he was retired by the National Socialists.

His grave is in the cemetery in Hiddesen .

literature

  • Acta Borussica (New Series), Volume 10 (1909–1918), Verlag Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim-Zurich-New York 1999, p. 446.
  • Acta Borussica 1925-1938
  • Walter Serlo: Mining families in Rhineland and Westphalia . The von Velsen family and their mining relatives. 3rd volume. Aschendorffschen Verlagbuchhandlung, Münster 1936, p. 79 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Annual directory of the writings published at German universities , Prussian State Library (Ed.), 2009, p. 256 (Tübingen 1898–1899) ( digitized version )
  2. Rademacher's German biographical archive 1871–1945 names June 20, 1934 as the last day of office. [1]