Joseph Freusberg (politician, 1842)

Joseph Maria Kaspar Markus Freusberg (born September 23, 1842 in Olpe ; † July 30, 1917 in Berlin ) was a Prussian civil servant. Among other things, he was district administrator for the districts of Olpe and Arnsberg, and later in the Prussian Ministry of Culture, responsible for matters relating to the Catholic Church.

Freusberg was the son of Caspar Freusberg and his wife Theresia (née DuMont). The father was a judge and owner of the Voerde estate. In 1861 Freusberg passed the Abitur at the Laurentianum grammar school in Arnsberg . He then studied law and camera studies in Bonn , Heidelberg and Berlin . During his studies in 1861 he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity . In 1864 he became an auscultator at the court of appeal in Arnsberg, where he later became a trainee lawyer . In 1866 he took part in the German War as a soldier . In 1869 he passed his assessor exam.

From 1870 Freusberg was district administrator of the Olpe district. In 1871 he married Maria Herold, a sister of Carl Herold , a member of the Reichstag for the Center Party . The marriage had seven children. One child, Caspar Freusberg, later also became district administrator in the Olpe district. The son of the same name, Josef Freusberg , became auxiliary bishop in Erfurt . One daughter became a religious.

During his time in the Olpe district, Freusberg founded the agricultural winter school in Elspe . In 1883 he moved to the district administration in Arnsberg. Freusberg was a member of the Westphalian Provincial Parliament from 1875 to 1877 and from 1887 to 1898 .

In 1896 Joseph Freusberg moved to Berlin after he had been appointed administrative court director at the district committee in Berlin on July 5, 1896. On December 1, 1899, Freusberg finally received an appointment as an unskilled worker in the Ministry of Culture. There he received his appointment to the Secret Government and Lecturing Council on March 5, 1900. Freusberg, who was himself a Catholic, was responsible for the affairs of the Catholic Church. In the following years he was promoted to the secret upper government councilor in 1903 and to the real secret councilor in 1913. As an official of the Ministry of Culture, Freusberg tried to serve the interests of both the state and the church. He also worked as a legal advisor at the Charité .

literature

Gunnar Anger: Joseph Freusberg (politician, 1842). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 633-635. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 70-71.
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. 276.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Dietrich Wegmann: The leading state administrative officials of the province of Westphalia 1815-1918. (= Publications of the Historical Commission of Westphalia XXII a; Historical works on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. Volume 1) Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1969, p. 245 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Freusberg, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Freusberg, Joseph Maria Kaspar Markus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH	Olpe
DATE OF DEATH	July 30, 1917
Place of death	Berlin

[Wegmann-1] Dietrich Wegmann: The leading state administrative officials of the province of Westphalia 1815-1918. (= Publications of the Historical Commission of Westphalia XXII a; Historical works on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. Volume 1) Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1969, p. 245 f.