Joseph Anton Friedrich August von Hövel

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Joseph Anton Friedrich August Freiherr von Hövel (born November 24, 1842 in Siegen , † March 23, 1917 in Essen ) was a German politician and district president in Koblenz .

origin

His parents were the mining captain Freiherr Friedrich Anton Johann Joseph von Hövel (born June 24, 1797) and his wife Freiin Wilhelmine Hedwig von Lilien zu Borg and Lahr (born April 27, 1811).

Life

After graduating from school, he studied law and on June 12, 1866 he became an auscultator at the appellate court in Paderborn . On May 2, 1868 he was appointed government trainee. From November 24, 1870 provisional and from June 26, 1872 full-time district administrator of the Essen district . On February 6, 1899, he was appointed president of the Koblenz administrative district. Together with the provincial curator Paul Clemen , he founded the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection in Cologne on October 20, 1906 . On May 25, 1910, he resigned from civil service.

The von Hövel family provided the hereditary death of the Werden monastery until 1802 and the treasurer of the Essen monastery until 1803 . On the occasion of the unveiling of the Rhenish provincial monument for Kaiser Wilhelm I at the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz on August 31, 1897, he awarded these two offices to Baron von Hövel and his heirs.

Honor

In Essen , Hövelstraße in the Altenessen district is named after him.

swell

  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads: who was what? , Bacht, Essen 1985 ISBN 3-87034-037-1
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1855. Fifth year, p.278f

Individual evidence

  1. Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1855. Fifth year, p.347