Otto Klingelhöffer

Otto Georg Friedrich Klingelhöffer (born January 11, 1812 in Dorheim (Friedberg) , † January 1, 1903 in Darmstadt ) was a German administrative officer.

Life

Born as the son of a city and official school and cousin of Wilhelm Klingelhöffer , Otto Klingelhöffer studied law and economics in Gießen , Heidelberg and Marburg after attending grammar school in Hanau . During his studies in 1831 he became a member of the Old Giessen Burschenschaft Germania and in 1832 the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft / Franconia . In 1833 he worked as an escape helper for the fraternities involved in the Frankfurt Wachensturm , which is why he himself had to go into hiding for a while and was later excluded from the civil service in Hessen-Darmstadt .

From 1835 he went to the state service in the state of Hesse, passed his state examination and became a government trainee at the senior tax committee in Kassel . In 1836 he went to the government in Hanau as a trainee lawyer, became district secretary in Hersfeld in 1842 and went to the Ziegenhain district in 1847 , where he became district administrator . Then he came to Eschwege with a penalty and went to Frankfurt am Main in 1851 , where he worked closely with Bismarck . In 1862 he returned to the Hessian state service as government secretary in Marburg. In 1866 he became a member of the railroad management in Kassel. He was Councilor and went in 1874 when laying the Directorate to Frankfurt am Main. In 1882 he retired, which he spent in Darmstadt.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 107-108.