Karl von Katte

Christian Karl Wilhelm von Katte , also Friedrich Christian Karl David , (born June 10, 1750 in Zollchow ( Jerichow II ), † April 24, 1821 in Neuenklitsche ) was the manor owner and Prussian district administrator. He belonged to the Katte family .

The obelisk erected by Katte bore the inscription: “In 1780 Frederick the Second, King of Prussia, had this river widened and the quarries made arable. Chr. Karl Wilhelm von Katte. "

Katte, an uncle of the freedom fighter Friedrich von Katte , owned an estate in Neuenklitsche. Until 1784 he directed the regulation of the Stremme , a tributary of the Havel , between Genthin and Milow, ordered by Frederick the Great in 1780 . The straightening, widening and deepening of the river drained several square kilometers of marshland and made it usable for agriculture. In the course of this work, Katte laid the Wilhelmsthal Vorwerk , part of the later municipality of Klitsche . An obelisk erected by him in 1800 on the left bank of the Stremme near Neuenklitsche, which has since disappeared, bore the inscription: “In 1780 Frederick the Second, King of Prussia, had this river widened and the ravines cleared. Chr. Karl Wilhelm von Katte. "

After the Congress of Vienna , when the Prussian province of Saxony was created as part of the Prussian state reform , Katte became the first provisional district administrator of the newly created district of Jerichow II on July 1, 1816 . In 1817 he finally took over this office and introduced the Prussian administrative reform there. He remained in this office until his death.

Katte died on April 24, 1821 on his Neuenklitsche estate.

literature

• Thomas Klein (arr.): Outline of German administrative history 1815–1945. Series A (Prussia), Volume 6 (Province of Saxony), Marburg / Lahn 1975, p. 124

Web links

• Karl von Katte in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon