Ludwig Otto August Klingelhöfer

Ludwig Otto August Klingelhöfer (born November 17, 1788 in Marburg ; † in the 19th century) was an administrative official in Hesse . From August 30, 1821 (initially district council ) to December 31, 1848 he was district administrator of the Gelnhausen district .

Origin and family

Klingelhöfer was born as the son of the court and police writer Johann Ludwig Jakob Klingelhöfer and his wife Luise geb. Greißl was born in Marburg . After his appointment as district councilor in (and moving to) Gelnhausen , he married in 1823 with the approval of his sovereign Christine Luise Clever, the wealthy widow of a Gelnhausen councilor . The marriage had three children.

education and profession

On 27 October 1805 he was a student of law at the Hessian State University Marburg enrolled . After graduating, he worked for the prefecture of the royal Westphalian department of the Werra in Marburg and from 1811 at the General Directorate of Forests and Waters in Kassel . The Kingdom of Westphalia created by Napoleon I existed from 1807 to 1813; King Hieronymus (French: Jérôme ), the brother of the Emperor of the French, resided in Kassel. With the return of the Hessian Electors I. Wilhelm was Klingelhöfer early 1814 to Auditeur (military Coroner) and regimental quartermaster of the realigned Hussars ordered -Regiments, with whom he participated in the campaigns against Napoleon in 1814-15. He kept this position until his appointment to Gelnhausen in 1821.

District councilor in Gelnhausen with the longest period of service

By rescript (decree) of September 19, 1821, the elector appointed Klingelhöfer as the first district councilor for the newly created district of Gelnhausen. The district councilor, initially appointed on a trial basis with an annual salary of 800 thalers, received the confirmation provided on December 27, 1822, "in the case of proper service management".

The first seat of the Gelnhausen district council was the Graflich- Ysenburgische Rentkammer building in Meerholz , which later became the town hall of the municipality, which was independent until 1972 (today part of Gelnhausen). The extension of the district area through the redistribution of the province of Hanau , which was decreed at the end of 1829, which brought the offices of Birstein and Wächtersbach (with one town, 30 villages and a total of 10,717 souls) to the district after the assignment of six villages from the Langenselbold office to the Hanau district , applied for the district council in 1831 because of extra work and higher travel expenses a salary increase. In repeated requests, the high cost of living of a family with three children was highlighted, to which the proximity of the large cities of Hanau , Frankfurt , Offenbach and Aschaffenburg contributed. It was only when the government in Hanau confirmed that the district council had “done its extra work to our satisfaction” that he was granted a wage supplement of 100 thalers in November 1833, which was doubled six years later.

However, he was repeatedly passed over "because of a lot of neglect" for upcoming promotions. Klingelhöfer's poor health may have played a role here. On medical orders, Klingelhöfer had to go to Wiesbaden for several weeks in 1829, 1831 and 1835/36 for a cure . From the end of March 1847 he was on leave due to health-related incapacity until January 1848 and was represented by District Secretary Anton Huck. Since Klingelhöfer end of March 1848 fell ill again, the special "Anfordernisse" necessitated a proper management of the revolutionary year just south of the electorate, it was by order of 28 June 1848 in the retirement staggered.

Even then, he was the longest serving Hessian district administrator and has remained the head of administration with the longest period of service in the history of the Gelnhausen district.

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• Eckhart G. Franz and Georg Rösch: The district administrators in 150 years in the Gelnhausen district: Ludwig Otto August Klingelhöfer. In: 150 Years of the Gelnhausen District - Heimat-Jahrbuch des Gelnhausen District - Between Vogelsberg and Spessart 1971. Gelnhausen 1970, p. 37.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sections 19-25 (civil servant status of auditors in military justice), Sections 55 ff. (Investigative procedures at the military courts), Military Criminal Court Order of March 21, 1829, in: Wilhelm Möller and Karl Fuchs (eds.) , Collection of the legal provisions still valid in the Electorate of Hesse from 1813 to 1866, Elwert, Marburg and Leipzig 1867, pp. 651 to 677