Hermann Strahl

Hermann Heinrich Friedrich Karl Strahl (born December 17, 1866 in Kreuznach ; † March 26, 1924 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer and worked as district administrator in Kempen (1903-1917) and Siegburg (1917-1924).

Life

Origin and education

Hermann Strahl was the son of the general practitioner or district physician , Privy Medical Councilor Dr. med. Friedrich Strahl (died November 13, 1898 in Cologne) and his wife Maria Josephine Strahl, née Seydlitz (died January 16, 1912 in Kempen, buried in Bad Kreuznach). After first attending grammar school in his hometown until 1883 , he switched to the Rhenish Knight Academy in Bedburg , where he passed the school leaving examination at Easter 1887 . He then took up law studies at the universities of Bonn , Geneva and Berlin until 1890 , which was interrupted by his military service as a one-year volunteer from October 1, 1887 to 1888 with the Hussar Regiment "King Wilhelm I." (1. Rheinisches) No. 7 in Bonn . There he was active in the Corps Saxonia in 1888 .

After successfully passing the trainee exam in June 1890 and being sworn in as a court trainee on July 7, 1890, Strahl continued his training at the Kreuznach District Court and the Koblenz District Court . However, he then switched to the Prussian administrative service, where he found employment on April 10, 1893 as a government trainee with the Royal Prussian Government in Münster . In this phase he also passed the examination for the higher administrative service on May 2, 1896, his appointment as a government assessor followed on June 24, 1896. He was also employed as an unskilled worker at the district offices in Wiedenbrück and from August 1, 1898 in Lennep . On January 11, 1900, he finally moved to the government in Düsseldorf .

Career

On the part of his new employer, the Royal Prussian Government in Düsseldorf, Hermann Strahl was temporarily commissioned with the administration of the District Office of the Kempen District by decree of June 22nd to July 1st, 1903, after the previous District Administrator, Rudolf von Bönninghausen, initially on leave and at the same time subsequently retired on October 1 of the same year. Strahl received his definitive appointment as Kempen District Administrator on January 25, with effect from February 1, 1904. During the First World War , Strahl was absent due to the war. District Deputy Hugo Herfeld took over his representation from November 1914 to October 1916 . In the meantime, Strahl served in the civil administration in Belgium , including as President of the Imperial Civil Administration of the Belgian province of Luxembourg .

After the implementation of the previous district administrator of the Siegkreis, Adolf von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels, to the government in Aachen on October 1, 1917 , Strahl was entrusted with the provisional administration of the district on October 2. Hermann Strahl received his formal transfer from Kempen to Siegburg by decree of April 13th to May 1st, 1918. He died while on duty.

family

The Catholic Hermann Strahl married Martha Gethmann, a daughter of the retired government councilor , on April 29, 1899 in Münster . D. Julius Gethmann and his wife Antonie Gethmann, née Meyenberg.

Web links

• "Files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic" Online - Biographies - Strahl, Herrmann (accessed on January 15, 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e f g} Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 771 .
2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 27 , 346
3. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 367 f .
4. ↑ Deutsche Corpszeitung 31 (1914/15), p. 406