Konrad Hartong

Konrad Wilhelm Heinrich Hartong (born September 11, 1861 in Eutin , † January 23, 1933 in Oldenburg ) was a German lawyer . He worked as a judge at various Oldenburg courts. In 1919 he was temporarily provisional district president of the Birkenfeld part of the state and most recently the district court director in Oldenburg.

life and career

Konrad Hartong, first seated on the left, center group in the Oldenburg state parliament

The son of the auditor Conrad Wilhelm Hartong († 1898) and Henriette geb. Hacke attended high school in Eutin and studied law at the universities of Freiburg and Göttingen from 1881 to 1884 . After passing the two state exams, he entered the Oldenburg civil service in 1890 and initially worked as an auditor at the local courts of Jever and Varel and at the regional court of Oldenburg .

In 1892 he became an assistant judge at the Idar-Oberstein district court in the Principality of Birkenfeld , an exclave of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . In 1894 he worked as a magistrate in Nohfelden . From 1900 to 1906 he was a judge at the Oldenburg Regional Court and in 1907 took over the management of the Birkenfeld Local Court as senior magistrate. He was also politically active and was a member of the Oldenburg state parliament from 1911 to 1924 as a member of the Center Party . The Principality of Birkenfeld, known as the Birkenfeld region after the First World War , was occupied by French troops in 1919 as part of the Allied occupation of the Rhineland . After the provisional district president Pralle was dismissed by the French occupying power, Hartong was appointed provisional district president in Birkenfeld on June 15, 1919, but only took office after obtaining permission from Oldenburg. After the proclamation of the Independent Republic of Birkenfeld, protected by the French, in July 1919, Hartong was able to exercise his office for a short time, but was deposed on August 30, 1919 by the separatist government, to which he handed over the business on September 3. Hartung initially remained in Birkenfeld as chief magistrate and was transferred to the district court in Oldenburg in 1923 after his expulsion by the French, where he was appointed district court director in 1924 .

family

Hartong married Elisabeth born on September 14, 1893. Karrig (1861–1949), the daughter of the director of the Rostock regional court and mayor Ludwig Karrig and Ernestine geb. Raspe. The son of this marriage, Konrad Ernst gen. Kurt (1894–1980) later became chief district director of the Cloppenburg district and co-founder of the Oldenburg Foundation .

literature

• Hartong, Konrad Wilhelm Heinrich. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 557-561, pp. 283-284 ( online ).