Ludwig Friedrich Franz Beckhaus

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Ludwig FF Beckhaus

Ludwig Friedrich Franz Beckhaus (born July 20, 1853 in Bielefeld , † December 6, 1936 in Potsdam ) was a German lawyer , district administrator and vice-president of the Court of Auditors of the German Empire .

Life

Ludwig Beckhaus was the son of August Beckhaus (* May 8, 1812; † August 27, 1893 in Bielefeld), secret medical councilor and district physician in Bielefeld, and his wife Dorothea, née Rieckhoff (* February 10, 1818 in Kassel ; † 29. March 1892 in Bielefeld).

Beckhaus studied in Bonn , Leipzig and Göttingen Jura . During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity in 1872/73 . In 1876/77 he served as a one-year volunteer in the 2nd Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 15 . He was released in April 1877 after an accident at work.

He passed the first state examination in October 1876, after various assignments, mainly with the Arnsburg government and the second state examination in March 1882. After that, he worked first with the Schleswig government, then with the Kassel government. On July 17, 1886, he was appointed provisional district administrator in the Hofgeismar district , with the definitive appointment being made on May 18, 1887.

On February 28, 1898 he was appointed to the senior government council and on March 19, 1898, he moved to the Frankfurt / Oder government as director of the finance department.

In 1903 he was transferred to Potsdam , where he was councilor, secret upper government councilor, director, and in the last year before his retirement in 1921, he was vice-president of the German State Audit Office .

Beckhaus married Jutta Tiemann in 1883 (born January 4, 1862 in Bielefeld; † March 27, 1938 in Potsdam), the daughter of the medical adviser Bernhard Tiemann, a co-founder of the Von Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel . As a district administrator, Beckhaus also supported the establishment of the “Institute for Epileptics”, which in 1867 became the “Ebenezer” nucleus of the v. Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel was. Later he was particularly committed to the welfare of hikers and the hostel system. So it happened that for the funeral in 1936 two “Brothers from the Landstrasse”, sent by Pastor Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the Younger , preceded the coffin with a wreath.

Awards

literature

  • Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867 to 1945. 1988, ISBN 3884431595 , p. 93.
  • Hedwig Castendyk: The Beckhaus family from Gut Beckhausen near Ergste in Westphalia with their previously known branches. Self-published, Bielefeld 1934.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 57-58.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Schulze (edit.): The protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. In: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Acta Borussica . New series, Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2002, ISBN 3-487-11663-4 , p. 533. online (1.92 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Beckhaus, Ludwig Friedrich Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, district administrator and Vice President of the Court of Audit of the German Reich
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1936
Place of death Potsdam