Hermann Leo Knickenberg

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Hermann Leo Knickenberg (born March 11, 1848 in Telgte ; † April 12, 1939 in Magdeburg ) was a Prussian district administrator in the Beckum district .

Life

Career

Postcard from Telgte with his father's Knickenberg Institute (left, 1897)

Hermann Leo Knickenberg was a son of Telgter Rector Joseph Knickenberg (1814-1884) and Klara geb. Niemann. In 1859 Joseph Knickenberg founded the Knickenberg'sche Institut , a higher private boys' school with boarding school, at today's Knickenbergplatz in Telgte. The older brother Franz Knickenberg (1844–1915), who had been working at his father's school since 1869, succeeded in its management before he sold it in 1906. Hermann Leo Knickenberg, meanwhile, studied law at the universities of Bonn , Halle and Leipzig after completing his school-leaving certificate at the Münster and passed the examination for trainee lawyer at the Naumburg Court of Appeal on February 28, 1872 . During his studies in 1867 he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity . On March 19, 1872, he was sworn in as a trainee lawyer at the Münster Court of Appeal . Previously, he had done his military service as a one-year volunteer in the 1st Westphalian Hussar Regiment No. 8 in Paderborn and was second lieutenant here . The successful examination as a court assessor followed in September 1876.

Before he was employed by the General Commission of Münster on October 1, 1877 , he was employed by the public prosecutor's offices in Dortmund and Hamm. On October 18, 1877 he received the certificate of appointment as a government assessor and in April of the following year he became special commissioner in Neuwied. On August 1, 1880, he became a special commissioner in Lippstadt . After four years with the Danzig government , he was entrusted with the municipal administration of the Beckum District Office on September 20, 1885, and on July 26, 1886, at the request of the Beckum District Council, he was finally appointed District Administrator of the Beckum District. On October 6, 1891, he moved to the Stralsund government as a councilor and then worked for the Magdeburg and Hildesheim governments, most recently as a senior councilor. After 1914 he retired. From 1887 to 1890 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia for the Beckum constituency. He took conservative positions.

family

Knickenberg, who was a Catholic denomination, married Franziska Welschof in Minden in 1887, the daughter of the District Court Councilor Welschof and the Bernhardine nee Merschof.

Honors

literature

  • Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 383.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Magdeburg-Altstadt registry office No. 837/1939. In contrast, Bruns names 1949 as the year of death (without specifying a day or month)
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ [2]
  4. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 104.
personal data
SURNAME Knickenberg, Hermann Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator in the Beckum district
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Telgte
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1939
Place of death Magdeburg