Hugo von Strauss and Torney

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Hugo von Strauss and Torney

Hugo Karl Klemens Strauss , from 1852 by Strauss , from 1872 by Strauss and Torney (born January 13, 1837 in Bückeburg , Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe , today Lower Saxony ; † August 25, 1919 in Berlin ), was the Prussian district administrator , police president , administrative court director and President of the Senate at the Higher Administrative Court in Berlin.

family

He came from an old Hanoverian family, first mentioned in a document with Pastor Georg Burchard Strauss (around 1584–1632) in Rethmar, near Lehrte in Hanover, and was the son of the conservative poet, researcher and theologian Viktor Strauss (1809–1899 ), Schaumburg-Lippescher envoy and minister and honorary citizen of the city of Dresden , who was raised to the Austrian nobility on June 2, 1852 with a diploma of August 20, 1852 in Vienna , and by Albertine von Torney (1814–1905), last of her family .

Strauss married on September 18, 1862 in Kassel Hortense Prätorius (born November 29, 1839 in Buitenzorg , Java , Dutch East Indies ; † October 12, 1898 in Berlin), the daughter of the Dutch director of culture in Surabaya (Java), and the Antoinette Kulenkamp-Lemmers.

While Hugo von Strauss received approval for the Prussian name and coat of arms association with that of the maternal family von Torney on February 19, 1872 in Berlin , his father Viktor von Strauss and his brothers Albert and Lothar received the schaumburg-Lippe approval for names and coats of arms Coats of arms association with von Torney only on May 15, 1872 in Bückeburg.

Life

During his studies he was a member of the 1858 Schwarzenburg Bund - connection Burschenschaft Germania Göttingen , then still in Wingolf . He was also a member of the Erlanger and Berlin Wingolf .

On December 23, 1865, Strauss was appointed government assessor and initially worked in Trier . In 1866 he became provisional district administrator of the St. Wendel district before joining the government in Wiesbaden in the same year . In 1868, again after he was acting district administrator of the Biedenkopf district , he became its first Prussian district administrator.

In 1871 he became police director, then police chief of Wiesbaden and in 1887 administrative court director in Merseburg . A Reichstag candidacy in 1881 in the Reichstag constituency Wiesbaden 1 district was unsuccessful. From 1890 he was employed at the Higher Administrative Court in Berlin, where he also became President of the Senate. In 1919 he died in his study in Berlin.

The lawyer Strauss was D. theol. of the University of Erlangen and received an honorary doctorate from the medical faculty of the University of Leipzig . He was a royal Prussian real privy councilor and legal knight of the Order of St. John .

He wrote the commentary on the Prussian line of flight law of 1875.

In 1882 he was one of the founding members of the Wiesbaden section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club and its 1st chairman until 1883.

literature

  • German gender book : Strauss from Rethmar near Lehrte in Hanover. - Individual print from the 9th Lower Saxony volume (DGB 141). Carton, DIN B 6, 72 pages, CA Starke Verlag
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B Volume VI, Page 367, Volume 32 of the complete series; Limburg (Lahn): CA Starke Verlag, 1964; ISSN  0435-2408
  • Karl Huth: Administrative history of the Biedenkopf district ; Biedenkopf: District Committee of the District, 1957
  • Huth, Karl: Description of person: District Administrator von Strauss and Torney [1978, 52-53] ; in: Heimatjahrbuch 1978, Marburg-Biedenkopf district

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold Petri (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. Fourth edition, Bremerhaven 1908, p. 107, no.2265.
  2. ↑ Emil Veesenmeyer: Festschrift to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Wiesbaden section of the D. u. Ö. Alpine Club . Ed .: Wiesbaden section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club. Wiesbaden 1907, p. 3, 4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Strauss and Torney, Hugo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strauss, Hugo; Strauss, Hugo von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian District Administrator, Police President, Administrative Court Director and Senate President
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Bückeburg , Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe , today Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1919
Place of death Berlin