Konrad von Massow

Konrad von Massow

Konrad Friedrich Wilhelm Valentin von Massow (born September 10, 1840 in Demnitz near Fürstenwalde, † December 21, 1910 in Potsdam ) was a German administrative lawyer and social politician.

Life

Konrad von Massow comes from the Pomeranian noble family Massow and was a son of the later Prussian minister of the royal house Ludwig von Massow . From 1859 to 1864 he studied law and political science at the universities of Berlin , Erlangen , Heidelberg and Leipzig . After the first state examination in law in the autumn of 1863, he was initially an auscultator at the Halle (Saale) district court, then a trainee lawyer at the city court in Berlin. With the Brandenburg Dragoons Regiment No. 2 he took part in the war against Austria in 1866 and became a reserve officer at the end of 1868.

In 1870 Massow passed the assessor examination. In the French campaign , he participated in the battles at Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte . In September 1871 he was appointed government assessor and entrusted with the provisional administration of the Insterburg district . In the spring of 1872 he became district administrator. In 1878 he was transferred to the Oldenstadt office as district chief. During his tenure, the old Hanoverian offices were converted into circles in 1885. Massow became the first district administrator in the Uelzen district . In the same year he moved to Lüneburg as deputy regional president . Most recently he was a lecturing councilor and secret senior government councilor at the Audit Office of the German Reich in Potsdam.

One of Massow's main areas of activity was social policy. To push back the spreading social democracy , he called for a comprehensive reform in all areas of state administration. Among other things, he dealt with the situation of the wandering craft boys and the hostel system and initiated the establishment of the refreshment stations that were later set up throughout the empire. He was also chairman of the Central Association of German Workers' Colonies. In 1894 he headed the German delegation at the meeting of the “International Commission for All Interests in Protective Care”.

family

Konrad von Massow was married to Thusnelda Freiin von Reden. The marriage had five children.

Works

• The natural refreshment stations and the necessity of their reform as a prerequisite for their continued existence (Bethel near Bielefeld 1887)
• Reform or revolution! (Berlin 1894)
• The Reform of Our Political Party Life (Berlin 1895)

literature

• Reinhart Berger: Konrad von Massow, the first district administrator in the Uelzen district . In: The Heidewanderer. 1988 Yearbook, p. 140.
• Yearbook of the German nobility . Volume 3, 1899, p. 215 f. ( Online )