Maximilian von Elverfeldt

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Maximilian Friedrich von Elverfeldt (born July 31, 1763 in Haus Langen , Westbevern , † January 23, 1831 in Paderborn ) was a royal Prussian district administrator and canon of Paderborn.

Life

Maximilian von Elverfeldt was born as the son of the married couple Clemens August von Elverfeldt (royal chamberlain, * 1732, † 1783) and Maria Elisabeth Therese von Etzbach of the Elverfeldt family belonging to the Westphalian nobility of the county of Mark . He studied law at Göttingen and was canon in Paderborn from 1787 to 1804 . He belonged to the Paderborn Freemason Lodge Zum brightflammenden Schwerdt .

After the prince-bishopric of Paderborn became Prussian through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, he became district administrator of the Unterwald district on March 19, 1803 . Before he became head of the government commission in Paderborn in 1813 , he worked for five years as sub-prefect in the Paderborn district of the Kingdom of Westphalia . On April 8, 1817, subject to the examination, he was finally appointed district administrator of the Paderborn district and released from civil service on November 12, 1830 with effect from January 1, 1831.

literature

  • Friedrich Keinemann: From crook to the republic - Westphalian nobility under Prussian rule 1802-1945, 1997, ISBN 3-8196-0541-X , p. 492.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. On the history of Freemasonry in Paderborn (box page; accessed on March 3, 2017)