Heinrich von Helldorff (District Administrator, 1870)

Heinrich Otto von Helldorff (born October 18, 1870 in Halle (Saale) , † August 8, 1936 in Baumersroda ) was a German administrative lawyer , Prussian district administrator and president of the Chamber of Agriculture of the Province of Saxony .

Life

He came from the noble von Helldorff family and was the son of the landowner and Prussian district administrator Karl von Helldorff (1828–1895), landlord on Baumersroda, and Auguste Reinharth (1839–1909). He studied law at the University of Halle from 1891 to 1894 . In 1895 he published his dissertation The indirect thief and the temptation to falsehood (§ 160 R.St.GB) , Verlag Lippert, Naumburg (Saale) 1895. After his doctorate to Dr. iur. he entered the civil service in 1897 as a trainee lawyer. On March 21, 1900, he passed the Grand State Examination and became a government assessor at the Salzwedel District Office. From July to November 1903 he was an unskilled worker with the Magdeburg Higher Presidium.

In 1903 he became acting district administrator of the Querfurt district in the Merseburg administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony and successor to Eberhard Freiherr von der Recke . He finally took over the office in 1904 and held it until 1919. From 1915 to 1916 he was a soldier in the First World War , most recently as Rittmeister of the Reserve. From 1922 to 1933 he was President of the Saxon Chamber of Agriculture. The provincial parliament of the province of Saxony elected him from May 1921 to January 22, 1929 as a deputy member and from January 22, 1929 to January 1930 as a full member of the Prussian State Council .

He was the landlord of Baumersroda, Castle and Gut Bedra , Leiha, Schalkendorf and Petzkendorf ( Querfurt district ). Helldorff was also a legal knight of the Order of St. John .

Helldorff married on May 18, 1900 at Gut Dieskau (now part of Kabelsketal ) Elisabeth (Else) von Bülow (born March 14, 1878 at Gut Dieskau; † April 21, 1969), the daughter of the landowner Kurd von Bülow, landlord on Dieskau , and Ulrike von Bülow. The couple had five children.

literature

• Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945 , series A: Prussia, vol. 6: Province of Saxony, edit. by Thomas Klein, Marburg / Lahn 1975, p. 139
• Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses A volume I, page 132, volume 5 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1953
• Friedrich Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen:  Helldorff, von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 474 ( digitized version ).
• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 , p. 68.