Gustav Ahlhorn
Gustav Theodor Johann Ludwig Ahlhorn (born August 23, 1886 in Oldenburg , † January 11, 1971 in Bad Sooden-Allendorf ) was a German lawyer and president of the German War Graves Commission .
Life
Ahlhorn was the son of the provincial government of the Principality of Birkenfeld , Georg Adolf Moritz Ahlhorn (1838-1917) and his wife Louise (née von der Lippe), born. After attending grammar school in Birkenfeld and completing his Abitur in 1905, he studied law at the universities of Lausanne , Jena , Berlin and Göttingen . In 1905 he became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity . He passed his legal examinations in 1909 and 1914. He took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 as a first lieutenant in the reserve , in which he received the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords before Verdun . After the war he was a government assessor in the Oldenburg civil service, then in the Reich administration before he became head of the tax office in Delmenhorst . In 1921 he became the first secular member of the Evangelical Lutheran Upper Church Council in Oldenburg, where he headed the finance department. In 1934 he resigned from this office due to differences with the German Christians . From 1925 to 1930 he was also a member of the Oldenburg City Council as a member of the German People's Party and the regional bloc . He took part in the Second World War from 1939 to 1944 as an officer and from 1944 was initially an unskilled worker at the Hanover regional church office , of which he became president in 1946. From 1951 to 1959 he was one of the successors of his brother Wilhelm, President of the German War Graves Commission.
Among other things, he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit and in 1959 the Great Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .
His brothers are Walther Ahlhorn and Wilhelm Ahlhorn .
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 9-10.
- Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 19 ( online (PDF; 4.6 MB)).
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
Joseph Koeth (1919–1923) | Fritz Siems (1924–1928) | Otto Geßler (1928–1932) | Siegfried Emmo Eulen (1933–1945) | Wilhelm Ahlhorn (1946–1949) | Eberhard Hagemann (1949–1952) | Gustav Ahlhorn (1952–1959) | Walter Trepte (1960–1970) | Willi Thiele (1970–1977) | Josef Schneeberger (1977–1982) | Eduard Haßkamp (1982–1987) | Hans-Otto Weber (1987–1998) | Karl-Wilhelm Lange (1998–2002) | Reinhard Führer (2002–2013) | Markus Meckel (2013–2016) | Wolfgang Schneiderhan (since 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ahlhorn, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ahlhorn, Gustav Theodor Johann Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1971 |
| Place of death | Bad Sooden-Allendorf |