Max von Gevekot

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Max von Gevekot
Grave in Detmold

Max Freiherr von Gevekot (born April 19, 1845 in Salzuflen ; † April 1, 1916 in Detmold ) was a German lawyer and from 1900 to 1912 Lippe State Minister and Head of Government in the Principality of Lippe .

Life

Max Gevekot was the youngest son of the Salzufler lawyer Hermann Philipp August Gevekot.

Gevekot first attended high school in Herford, then graduated from the Leopoldinum in Detmold in 1863 . He studied at the University of Heidelberg , passed his first legal exam in 1866 and passed the state examination in 1871 with the distinction “very good”. He was municipal judge-syndic in Salzuflen, from 1879 district judge and was transferred to the Detmold district court in 1883 . In Detmold he had a house built in Benekestrasse between 1887 and 1889 according to the plans of the city architect Bernhard Meyer. Construction management was already in the hands of Meyer's successor, Hermann Cuno Heufer .

In the course of the Lippe succession dispute and the Berlebecker-Quellen affair, in which the majority of the state parliament accused Count Regent Ernst zur Lippe-Biesterfeld of the unconstitutional donation of the Berlebeck springs to the city of Detmold for the purpose of water supply, Karl Gustav Oskar Miesitscheck von Wischkau ended in 1899 forced to resign. His successor as Minister of State and thus head of government in Lippe was Max Gevekot from the beginning of 1900, who enjoyed a broad basis of trust. On October 25, 1905, the succession dispute was finally settled by an arbitration award. In gratitude for his loyalty, Prince Leopold raised Gevekot to the hereditary baron status .

Gevekot rebuilt Lippe into a modern state, reformed the school system, provided for the establishment of an upper secondary school and new buildings for the state parliament, the government building, the archive and the Leopoldinum. As a keynote speaker he was present at the inauguration of the new building of his former school on October 22, 1907. He retired on January 1, 1913.

His daughter Elisabeth married Justus Adolf Wilhelm von Rosenberg-Gruszczynski (1877–1915), son of Justus von Rosenberg-Gruszczynski , on December 28, 1900 . His son Hans von Gevekot (1873-1926) was magistrate in Bad Salzuflen 1906/11 and Detmold 1911/26.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanns-Peter Fink: Leopoldinum - Gymnasium zu Detmold 1602–2002 (=  special publications of the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land of Lippe . Volume 64 ). Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-89528-365-7 , p. 340 .
  2. ↑ a b c Max Staercke (Ed.): People from the Lippische Boden . Verlag der Meyerschen Hofbuchhandlung, Detmold 1936, p. 320-322 .
  3. ↑ Klaus Scholz: The house at Benekestrasse 10 in Detmold and its builder, the district judge Max Gevekot . In: Historicism in Lippe (=  materials on art and cultural history in North and West Germany ). tape 9 . Jonas Verlag, Marburg 1994, ISBN 3-89445-165-3 , p. 239-243 .
  4. ^ Hanns-Peter Fink: Leopoldinum - Gymnasium zu Detmold 1602–2002 . S. 346 .
  5. ^ Dieter Siebeck: Captain Justus von Rosenberg-Gruszczynski. (PDF; 212 kB) Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Höxter eV, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Gevekot, Max von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gevekot, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Minister of State of Lippe
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzuflen
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1916
Place of death Detmold