Hans von Cossel

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Hans von Cossel , completely Hans Paschen Gustav Ritter and Edler von Cossel (born May 8, 1886 in Geldern , † February 12, 1975 in Düsseldorf ) was a German lawyer, bank director, diaconal functionary, Johanniter and Rotarian.

Life

Hans von Cossel came from the Mecklenburg noble family von Cossel and was the middle son of the royal Prussian secret councilor Otto von Cossel (1845–1915) from the house of Jersbek and Sophie, née. Countess von Zeppelin-Aschhausen (1856–1945). Cossel was born in Geldern in 1886, where his father was district administrator at the time . His older brother was the genealogist Otto von Cossel (1883–1967); his younger brother was the officer of the Imperial Air Force , observation pilot and Colonel Maximilian von Cossel (1897–1967).

Cossel studied law and initially worked in the Prussian government service in Aachen . As a senior councilor a. D. he switched to banking in the 1920s and became director of the Düsseldorf branch of Deutsche Bank und Disconto-Gesellschaft .

Since 1916 he was married to Laura Clotilde Engelberta, geb. Erckens (1886–1976), a granddaughter of Oskar Erckens .

Social Commitment

Since 1933 Hans von Cossel was a member of the board of the Kaiserswerth deaconess institution ; from 1935 to 1965 he was chairman of the board. In 1936 he took over the chairmanship and management of the Kaiserin-Auguste-Victoria-Stiftung (Mount of Olives Foundation) , which is responsible for the Auguste-Viktoria-Hospital (Jerusalem) and the Church of the Assumption (Jerusalem) . He headed the foundation until 1966; then the management passed to the EKD . During the war he was church master of the Evangelical Congregation of the Johanneskirche (Düsseldorf) and a longstanding member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

Hans von Cossel was a member of the German Men's Club . In 1930 he was one of the founding members of the Düsseldorf Rotary Club with Kurt Poensgen and Paul Girardet and was District Governor for District 97 in 1954 and 1956. In 1954 he initiated a donation from five major German cities (Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Bremen, Cologne) to the Reconstruction of the Laurenskerk (Rotterdam) .

In the Order of St. John he was a legal knight and from 1958 to 1965 Chancellor.

In addition to his decades of commitment to Kaiserswerth, von Cossel was also a member of numerous other administrative boards of hospitals and diaconal institutions, such as the board of trustees of the Johanniter Hospital in Oberhausen- Sterkrade , the Protestant educational and nursing home Mönchengladbach ( Protestant Foundation Hephata ) and the Protestant hospital in Düsseldorf (today Florence Nightingale Hospital (Düsseldorf) ).

On his 80th birthday in 1966, Federal President Heinrich Lübke and Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard paid tribute to his work in letters of congratulations.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He is to be distinguished from his cousin Hans von Cossel (Hans Henning von Cossel, 1899–1997), who was cultural attaché and regional group leader of the NSDAP in Brazil in the 1930s .
  2. ↑ Fliedner-Kulturstiftung Kaiserswerth, archive: Holdings 3-2 / 1: Kaiserin Auguste Victoria-Stiftung , accessed on October 25, 2017
  3. ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt: Düsseldorf: The industrial and administrative city (20th century). Düsseldorf: Schwann im Patmos-Verlag 1989 ISBN 9783491342231 , p. 309
  4. ^ Susanne Hilger: Rotary in Düsseldorf - The beginnings of the Düsseldorf Rotary Club
  5. ↑ Christine Gundermann: The reconciled citizens: The Second World War in German-Dutch encounters 1945-2000. Göttingen: Waxmann 2014 ISBN 9783830981299 (= civil society processes of understanding from the 19th century to the present ISSN  1868-3002 13), p. 87f
  6. ↑ Oberregierungsrat aD Hans von Cossel 80 years in: The hospital ZDB -ID 3262-1 58 (1966), p 257
  7. ↑ Printed in the Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government ZDB -ID 1320-1 1966 (from May 10, 1966), p. 484
personal data
SURNAME Cossel, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cossel, Hans Paschen Gustav Ritter and Edler von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, bank director, diaconal functionary, Johanniter and Rotarian
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Funds
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1975
Place of death Dusseldorf