Otto Eichhorn

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Otto Georg Friedrich Eichhorn (born April 14, 1884 in Lennep ; † January 16, 1966 in Tübingen ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer and worked as a district administrator in the Waldbröl district from 1919 to 1932 and then in the Verden district until 1933.

Life

Origin and education

Otto Eichhorn was the son of Friedrich Eichhorn, who last worked as a district judge in Cologne (died there on June 9, 1901) and his wife Elisabeth (Elise) Eichhorn, née Hentzen (1862-1946). He attended the apostle grammar school in Cologne , which he left in 1903 when he passed his school- leaving examination , in order to subsequently study law and political science in Tübingen , Berlin and Bonn from 1903 to 1906 . With the passing of the first legal state examination on July 14, 1906, Eichhorn received his appointment as court trainee on July 26 . After passing the major state examination on November 4, 1911, he was appointed government assessor . In this role he was initially employed at the Aabenraa District Office and finally, from November 1913, at the District Office of the Osthavelland district in Nauen . There he received his appointment to the government council on March 11, 1918 , before he was transferred to the Prussian government Gumbinnen for further employment in December 1918 .

Career

As the successor to the long-time district administrator of the Waldbröl district, Hermann Gerdes , who was on leave on July 1, 1919 and retired on October 1 , Eichhorn was commissioned with the administration of the district on July 1, 1919. After his definitive appointment in May 1920, he remained in this office until the Waldbröl district was dissolved on October 1, 1932. In the same position and also on October 1, Eichhorn received his transfer to the district office of the newly formed district of Verden, where he In the meantime the National Socialists seized power on June 15, 1933 and was put into temporary retirement . From this he was taken back into active service after only a few weeks and transferred to the Kassel government in August 1933 , where he filled a position as a government councilor from September 1935 and was appointed to the senior government council on August 1, 1939. As a government director, Eichhorn was retired from May 1, 1949.

family

The Protestant Otto Eichhorn married Elisabeth Anna Alexandrine Freiin Koenig von und zu Warthausen (born January 4, 1901 in Leutkirch) in Warthausen on December 29, 1933 , daughter of the Württemberg chief magistrate Hans Koenig von und zu Warthausen and his wife Ella Koenig von und zu Warthausen , born von Neubronner .

literature

  • Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945. (= Sources and research on Hessian history, 70; Ed. Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse), Darmstadt / Marburg 1988, ISBN 3-88443-159-5 , p. 259, note: after Klein, Eichhorn became in 1924 in Halle to the Dr. jur. doctorate (according to DNB: possibly with the work house life insurance , 1923.), a personal identity needs to be verified.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816-1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 430 f .
  2. ↑ Reinhold Zilch , Bärbel Holtz (edit.): The protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. In: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Acta Borussica . New episode. Olms-Weidmann , Hildesheim 2003, p. 554 ( Online ; PDF 2.2 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Eichhorn, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichhorn, Otto Georg Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative lawyer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Lennep
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1966
Place of death Tübingen