Karl Rudolf von Strauch

Karl Alois Rudolf Strauch since 1827 Karl Alois Rudolf von Strauch (born January 21, 1771 in Aachen ; † September 14, 1844 there ; according to another source also Carl Rudolf Josef Aloys von Strauch ) was a cloth manufacturer , landowner and from 1816 to 1836 district administrator of the district Aachen .

Life and career

Karl Rudolf Strauch was the son of the businessman, needle manufacturer and owner of the Kalkofen estate , Johann Caspar Gottfried von Strauch (* 1733; † before 1790) and Maria Margarete Josephine, née. von Collenbach (* 1738; † before 1775) and nephew of the former mayor of the imperial city of Aachen Peter Balthasar Strauch (1728–1802). After attending high school he studied law at the University in Bonn . In addition to his position as a cloth manufacturer, he owned the Wiesenthal estate on the former Kölnsteinweg in front of the city gates (today around Wiesental 8, north of Europaplatz). During the time of the Napoleonic occupation he was offered public offices. He held the honorary position of commercial judge and was appointed to the Prefectural Council of the Département de la Roer in Aachen on August 30, 1811 . After the Rhineland passed to Prussia on May 1, 1816, he was appointed the first district administrator of the newly formed district of Aachen. The shrub, suffering from health problems since the beginning of the 1830s , was retired at its own request on December 15, 1835 with the highest cabinet order (AKO) of March 7, 1836. On April 15, 1836, he officially resigned from the service.

family

The Catholic Karl Rudolf Strauch married Isabella Maria Walburga von Thimus on December 30, 1805 in Aachen (born November 8, 1769 in Aachen; † 1821), a daughter of Aegidius Leonhard von Thimus and Maria Agnes, née. of shrub. Her daughter Clementine Ottilie Hubertine von Strauch (born January 5, 1809 - † September 25, 1893 in Aachen) married the Prussian chamberlain, member of the manor and mayor of Aachen , Theodor Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg (born September 25, 1806 in Cologne; † July 3, 1882 in Aachen). Karl Rudolf von Strauch was raised to the Prussian nobility on March 31, 1827.

literature

• District of Aachen (Ed.): 150 years of the district of Aachen, Aachen 1966, p. 49f.
• 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. 772 .
• Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtmann and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 15. Folder 1151-1236. SPECKHEWER-WALDBOTT VON ULMEN. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies , Cologne, New Series No. 94). Cologne 1998, p. 330ff. (from Strauch).
• Herbert M. Schleicher: 80,000 death notes from Rhenish collections. (= Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, New Series No. 38), Volume II, Cologne 1987, without ISBN.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtmann and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 15.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} 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 .
3. ↑ HFMacco: Aachener Wappen und Genealogien Vol. 2, S. 176
4. ↑ ^{a b} Herbert M. Schleicher: 80,000 death notes from Rhenish collections. Volume II.