Karl Scheuner

Karl Hermann Scheuner (born April 1, 1857 in Weldergoven in the Siegkreis, † September 11, 1934 in Berlin-Steglitz ) was a German administrative lawyer and government vice-president in Trier, Breslau and Münster.

Life

Karl Scheuner was born as the son of the married couple Johann Carl Scheuner (1821-1892) and Anna Katharina Jansen (* 1827) and went on March 18, 1879 at the grammar school in Nordhausen as a one-year volunteer to the Guard Fusilier Regiment in Berlin . He was last captain of the reserve here. This was followed by a law degree in Berlin . His appointment as trainee lawyer at the Naumburg Higher Regional Court was dated August 17, 1882. After working at various courts and in a law firm, he was appointed court assessor on April 23, 1887 and was employed at the local courts in Gommern and Stendal . In 1889 he switched to the Protestant church service and found employment first at the Magdeburg Consistory and then in Posen. Appointed consistorial assessor on September 22, 1890, the appointment to consistorial council fell on April 25, 1893. The following year he was transferred to the Königsberg consistory. Scheuner returned to the administration and became a member of the government on November 26, 1895. On April 1, 1900, he was acting legal advisor at the Düsseldorf district government, and on March 30, 1903, he was promoted to the senior government council. Four years later he moved to the Trier district government , where he was deputy regional president. From June 21, 1909, he was employed in the same position at the Wroclaw District Government . On January 1, 1916, he took up the position of representative of the district president in Münster and stayed here until his retirement on April 1, 1922. Scheuner was proposed several times for promotion to regional president or senior president.

family

On October 25, 1898, he married Hedwig Emmi Agnes Elisabeth Von Staff (1879–1960) in Breslau. The children Ruth Elisabeth, Ellen (1901–1986) and Ulrich (1903–1981, constitutional and canon lawyer) emerged from the marriage .

swell

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46) , Aschendorff-Verlag Münster, ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4

Web links

• Karl Scheuner short biography on the Internet portal "Westphalian History"