Georg von Richthofen
Georg Ernst Gotthard von Richthofen (born January 29, 1880 in Barmen ; † November 20, 1950 in Detmold ) was a Prussian district administrator in the Silesian district of Nimptsch and landlord .
His parents were the Catholic apostolic travel preacher Gotthard von Richthofen (1851–1915) and Anna Hewett (1857–1884), their younger brother was the British officer and painter Harald George Hewett . Georg von Richthofen visited the Knights Academy in Legnica and put in Wroclaw , the High School from. Since his father had entrusted him with the management of the Groß Rosen estate , he first trained in agriculture. Richthofen then studied law at the Universities of Freiburg i. Br. , Munich and Breslau , he completed both state exams. He first worked under the Silesian President Hans Lauchlan von Guenther and in 1913 was appointed district administrator of the Nimptsch district.
Richthofen married Gertrud Engel (1898–1980) in January 1918, the eldest sister of the later member of the Bundestag Erika Wolf (CDU). The couple had three sons, one grandson is the actor Christian von Richthofen . After the November Revolution, Richthofen resigned from the office of district administrator at his own request in 1920 and then ran his own estates in the Schweidnitz district . The Groß-Rosen quarries for granite mining also belonged to his land .
During the National Socialist era , Richthofen joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in May 1937 . A year later, Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke (DESt), an SS company , signed a lease agreement with Richthofen for a total of 80 acres (20 hectares ) of land. The Groß-Rosen concentration camp was then built on this land .
After the end of the Second World War , the couple were expelled in 1947 and finally came to Detmold.
Works
- Basic features of the constitution and administration of the municipalities and municipal associations. In: Series of publications of the Schlesisches Landbund, issue 1919
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| SURNAME | Richthofen, Georg von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richthofen, Georg Ernst Gotthard from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian district administrator in the Nimptsch district |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barmen near Wuppertal |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1950 |
| Place of death | Detmold |