Hans von Hammerstein-Loxten

Hans von Hammerstein-Loxten

Hans Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten (born April 27, 1843 in Lüneburg , † March 20, 1905 in Berlin ) was a Prussian civil servant and politician. Most recently he was the Prussian Minister of the Interior.

family

It came from the younger branch of the Loxten line, those of Hammerstein and was therefore only distantly related to Ernst von Hammerstein-Loxten . His father Wilhelm von Hammerstein was minister in the Kingdom of Hanover until 1865 and then minister in Mecklenburg-Strelitz until 1872 .

Hans von Hammerstein married Marie Elisabeth Charlotte von Rabiel on September 14, 1872. His son Günther Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten (* 1885) had been a member of the board of directors of the debt relief associations of the German East GmbH in Berlin since 1932 .

Professional career

Hans von Hammerstein-Loxten studied law in Heidelberg, Bonn and Göttingen. In 1864 he passed the auditor exam in Hanover. In 1866 he became Federal War Commissioner of the Hanoverian Army. After the annexation in 1866 he joined the Prussian judicial service and, after the Franco-Prussian War, he joined the judiciary of Alsace-Lorraine . From 1869 he was assessor in the government in Koblenz , in 1870 in the general government in Nancy , in 1871 in the general government in Strasbourg and in 1871 was appointed district director in the Colmar district. He later switched to an administrative career. Between 1878 and 1883 Hammerstein-Loxten was district and police director in Mulhouse . He then became district president of the Lorraine district , based in Metz . In 1896 he was appointed to the Real Secret Senior Councilor. Hammerstein-Loxten was the Prussian Minister of the Interior from 1901 until his death . He was also a member of the State Council and authorized representative of the Federal Council .

Hammerstein-Loxten took a tough line in Poland policy. The police and administration, especially in the eastern provinces, were strictly anti-Polish. The settlement policy was intended to Germanize Polish areas . The language policy he helped enforce led to the Wreschen school strike in 1906 . Hammerstein-Loxten acted basically in the spirit of Bernhard von Bülow , but the uncompromising manner of the interior minister often went too far for the prime minister.

Hammersteinstrasse in Berlin was named after Hammerstein-Loxten - along with other streets that were dedicated to Prussian ministers in connection with the exploitation of the Dahlem domain .

literature

• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography Volume 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 , Sponholtz, Hanover 1912, pp. 140-143.
• The members of Vandalia zu Heidelberg as of September 29, 1935 . Berlin 1936, p. 108.

Web links

• Entry in Meyers 1905
• Acta borussica Vol. 9 (PDF; 2.74 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hammersteinstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )