Karl von Pastor

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Karl von Pastor

Karl Theodor Pastor , since 1907 by Pastor (born November 24, 1857 in Burtscheid , † October 13, 1919 in Aachen ) was a Prussian administrative officer and district administrator of the Malmedy and Aachen districts .

Life

Origin from training

Karl von Pastor was the son of the needle manufacturer and commercial councilor Arthur Pastor and his wife Emilie, geb. Jug maker. After attending high school in Weilburg, where he in the fall of 1878 Graduate took off, he studied from 1878 to 1881 at the universities of Bonn and Berlin law . In 1879 he became a member of the Corps Palatia Bonn . After the first legal review (29 April 1882), he was charged with starting the Aachen Regional Court on 16 May 1882 as a court clerk sworn in.

Career

As a government trainee (October 6, 1884), Karl Pastor transferred to the Prussian administrative service, where he was employed by the governments in Aachen and Posen . After taking the assessor examination , he was appointed government assessor on August 15, 1888, with subsequent employment with the Münster government . As the successor to the future mayor of Cologne, Max Wallraf , he was sent to Malmedy on December 14, 1893 as a provisional district administrator, where he took office on January 16, 1894. After the council asked on 30 June 1894 waiving the right to own proposal definitive appointment pastor, this was on August 12, his appointment on September 1, 1894. The first also provisional appointment (May 6, 1899) as the District Administrator of the Aachen (succeeding Franz Freiherr von Coels von der Brügghen ) he finally moved back to his home district. The assumption of office there (May 29, 1899) was followed by the definitive transfer on December 4, 1899 and the introduction to Aachen on February 14, 1900.

Pastor as Aachen district administrator

When Karl Pastor took office in Aachen, he was to become the last royal Prussian official. In the 20 years of his service, he had the opportunity to contribute his experience gained in Malmedy and as managing director of the Rurtalsperrengesellschaft. In 1903 he established the district office for electrical power , which was responsible for power distribution. 1909 followed the establishment of the waterworks of the district Aachen GmbH, whose shareholders the district and the majority of the communities belonging to it became. Pastor himself presided over the board. With its numerous water extraction systems, such as the Dreilägerbachtalsperre , the Kalltalsperre or the participation in the construction of the Rurtalsperre with the Obersee, the company gained importance as the most important water distributor in the Aachen region and also supplied parts of the neighboring districts of Düren , Jülich and Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg . During the First World War , in 1917, the district administration received its first typewriter, and the distribution of food and ensuring basic supplies had become the main tasks before Allied troops entered the district in late 1918. The pastor, who had been suffering from health problems for years, continued to suffer from the difficulties of the post-war period. Allegedly he prepared a resignation letter, but then died before going on vacation.

family

The Catholic Karl Pastor married Hildegard, born on June 18, 1898 in Aachen. von Hartmann (born July 6, 1878 in Hanover; † October 7, 1910 in Aachen), the daughter of the Aachen district president Julian von Hartmann and Ottilie, b. from and to the mills. On March 1, 1907, the Prussian King Karl Theodor appointed Pastor to the Prussian nobility. Karl Theodor von Pastor found his final resting place in the Burtscheid hot mountain cemetery .

literature

  • District of Aachen (Ed.): 150 years of the district of Aachen. Aachen 1966, p. 53 (with picture).
  • 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. 664 .

Individual evidence

  1. 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 .
  2. Kösener corps lists 1910, 25 , 444.
  3. ^ Aachen district (Ed.): 150 years Aachen district .