Casimir von Dewall (District Administrator)

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Johann Kasimir Heinrich von Dewall (born September 13, 1773 in Kleve ; died April 21, 1826 in Schwanenberg ) was a Prussian district administrator in the Erkelenz district .

Life

Kasimir van de Wall was the son of the government councilor in the Prussian government of Kleve , Johann Adam Leonhard van de Wall, and his wife Christiane Johanna van de Wall, née Bilgen. About his education is narrated that he on 19 September 1798 the University to casting enrolled . He also married there in 1803, after having been raised to hereditary imperial nobility by Dewall the year before, on December 2, 1802 in Vienna . During this phase he belonged to the Freemasons (1800 apprentice , 1802-1805 journeyman ). Later, Kasimir von Dewall lived as a leaseholder of an estate in the Gross-Gerau rent office district and was deployed as a battalion chief for general surveillance. After the Wars of Liberation at the latest , von Dewall entered Prussian service, in May 1816 he received his appointment initially as provisional district administrator of the newly formed district of Erkelenz and on January 16, 1817 his final confirmation by a general cabinet order . Von Dewall died on duty. He broke his leg while getting off his horse, the consequences of which he succumbed four weeks later.

The Protestant Kasimir von Dewall married on April 18, 1803 in Gießen Wilhelmine von Grolmann (born April 6, 1780 in Gießen, died June 22, 1836 there), a daughter of the Grand Ducal Hessian Real Secret Council, Government and Consistorial Councilor Ludwig Adolf Christian von Grolmann (1741–1809) and his wife Luise von Grolmann, née Grolmann (1743–1814). The Prussian Lieutenant General Kasimir von Dewall (1811–1895) of the same name was a son of the von Dewall-Grolmann family.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c 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. 410 .
  2. ^ 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. 37 and note 98 .
  3. ^ 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. 231 Romeyk writes about 63 year old Dewall .
  4. ^ Grolman, Ludwig Adolf Christian von. Hessian biography (as of February 22, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Dewall, Casimir von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dewall, Johann Kasimir Heinrich von (full name); van de Wall, Johann Kasimir Heinrich (name until 1802)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleve
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1826
Place of death Schwanenberg