Karl von Starck (politician, 1867)

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Karl von Starck (born September 27, 1867 in Kassel , † August 22, 1937 at Schloss Laar ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician.

Life

Starck's parents were Wilhelm Starck (1835–1913) and his wife Charlotte born. von Baumbach (1844–1914). Wilhelm Starck, Princely Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Real Privy Councilor and Minister of State , was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on August 20, 1888 . In 1902 he acquired Laar Castle with the associated Laar and Rangen properties .

Karl studied law at the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . In 1886 he renounced the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg . After taking his first exam, he joined the Prussian administration as a government trainee in Kassel in 1891. After his appointment as a government assessor in March 1894, he was an assistant official in the Memel district . In 1896 he came to the Reich Office of the Interior as a laborer . In 1901 he became district administrator in the Hörde district . In July 1905 he was appointed police director to Potsdam . In 1907 he became police president there and in 1917 regional president in Cologne . In this function he introduced Konrad Adenauer to the office of Mayor of Cologne on October 18, 1917 . Although Starck was only retired from his office as Cologne District President on September 1, 1919 , after his appointment on June 17, 1919, he was German Reich and Prussian State Commissioner for the occupied Rhenish from June 21, 1919 until his resignation in May 1921 Areas based in Koblenz .

Property and family

Starck was the hereditary lord of the Laar estate and castle, the landlord of Rangen and Forst Schartenberg (all in today's Kassel district ).

He married on October 29, 1902 in Ruhrort Erna Carp (* February 8, 1881 in Ruhrort; † April 19, 1938 at Schloss Laar), the daughter of the secret judicial council, lawyer and notary Eduard Carp and Alma Haniel. The couple had a daughter and four sons. His descendants still live on Gut Laar today.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 102/111.
  2. ^ Günther Schulz, Simon Ebert: Konrad Adenauer 1917-1933. Documents from the Cologne years , 2007, page 51 ( excerpt )
  3. Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963 , 2001, p. 111 ( excerpt )