Karl von Hassell (District Administrator)

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Karl von Hassell

Karl Adolf Johannes von Hassell , also Carl Adolf Hans von Hassell (born February 29, 1872 in Lehe , † July 7, 1932 in Königsberg ) was a Prussian administrative officer and parliamentarian.

family

Hassell came from the local noble family of the von Hassell . He was a son of the Higher Regional Court President Leopold William Friedrich von Hassell in Kassel and his wife Helene, born. Reinecke. In 1910 he married Ottony Krimhild von Puttkamer. The son Henning-Leopold von Hassell emerged from the marriage. Karl von Hassel was also a cousin of Ulrich von Hassell .

Life

Karl von Hassell attended high school in Lüneburg and Nordhausen. He studied law at the Universities of Tübingen , Berlin and Göttingen . During his studies at the University of Tübingen he became a member of the Corps Suevia in 1891 . In 1894 he passed the trainee exam. In 1899 he became a government assessor and dike captain in Heinrichswalde in East Prussia. In 1901 he moved to the Ministry of the Royal House in Berlin, and in 1902 to the High Presidium of the Province of Posen . In 1906, he was Chief Executive of Mansfeld mountainous district in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Prussian province of Saxony and successor of Adolf Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von der Recke . He was in office until 1917 and then became senior president in the Prussian province of East Prussia . After the Kapp Putsch , he had to resign. He joined the DNVP and took over the leadership of the Heimatbund East Prussia .

MP

Hassell was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Saxony . After a by-election on July 28, 1911, he sat from 1912 to 1917 as a member of the Merseburg constituency 5 (Mansfelder Seekreis, Mansfelder Gebirgskreis, Stadtkreis Eisleben) in the Prussian House of Representatives . He belonged to the faction of the Conservative Party . Because of his promotion to senior president in Königsberg, he left the House of Representatives early on July 5, 1917.

Awards

  • Honorary citizen of Mansfeld

literature

  • Thomas Klein (arr.): Outline of German Administrative History 1815-1945 , Series A (Prussia) Volume 6 (Province of Saxony), Marburg / Lahn 1975, p. 124.
  • Ulrich v. Hassell: Memories from my life 1848–1918 , Chr. Belser'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1919, Stuttgart, p. 28.
  • Bernhard Mann : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 168.
  • Suevia-Tübingen 1831-1931 . Volume 2: Members . Tübingen 1931, No. 469.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Tilitzki: Catalogus Professorum: bio-bibliographical directory of professors, lecturers, lecturers, librarians at the Albertus University of Königsberg 1871–1918 . In: The Albertus University of Königsberg. Its history from the founding of the Empire to the fall of the Province of East Prussia (1871–1945) . tape 1 . De Gruyter, 2012, p. 542 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Hassell, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hassell, Karl Adolf Johannes von (full name); Hassell, Carl Adolf Hans von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative officer and parliamentarian
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Lehe
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1932
Place of death Koenigsberg