Klemens von Wolff-Metternich

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Klemens August Herrmann Freiherr von Wolff called Metternich (born April 25, 1803 in Wehrden , † April 27, 1872 in Wehrden ) was a German administrative lawyer .

Life

Clement v. Wolff-Metternich came from the old Rhenish noble family Wolff-Metternich . He was Catholic and married to Augusta geb. from Hartmann . His father Philipp was a landowner at Wehrden Castle on the Weser, which he inherited from him and district administrator, his mother Dorothea von Haxthausen (noble family) was a step- and godmother of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff . His younger brother Friedrich was district administrator of the Höxter district from 1845 to 1892.

Wolff studied law and embarked on a career in civil service. In 1824 he became an auscultator at the Paderborn Higher Regional Court , in 1827 trainee lawyer in Münster and Minden and in 1832 a government assessor at the Marienwerder government . It was around this time that he served as a one-year volunteer . In 1834 he became a government assessor in Cologne and in the same year district administrator in the Paderborn district . In 1842 he was promoted to vice-president of the district in Potsdam . In 1849/50 - at the time of the German Revolution - he took over the office of Upper President in the Province of Brandenburg .

1837–1841 and 1851–1858 he was a member of the Westphalian Provincial Parliament for the Paderborn constituency. From 1842 to 1848 v. Wolff member of the United States Committee in Berlin and in 1847 member of the United State Parliament .

literature

  • Clemens Freiherr von Wolff-Metternich, 1803–1872. A life and family chronicle . (= Westphalian sources and archive directories; 11). Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe, Münster 1985, ISSN  0722-3870
  • Alfred Bruns (Ed.): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826-1978 . 1978
  • Klaus Schwabe (Ed.): The Prussian Oberpräsident 1815–1945 (= German ruling classes in modern times. Vol. 15 = Büdinger research on social history. 1981). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1985, ISBN 3-7646-1857-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wolff-Metternich, Klemens von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff von Metternich, Klemens August Herrmann Freiherr von; Wolff-Metternich, Clemens von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Wehrden
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1872
Place of death Wehrden