Paul Joseph von Pröpper

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Baron Paul Joseph von Pröpper (born January 9, 1765 at Hülchrath Castle ; † August 4, 1848 at Hülchrath Castle) was the first Prussian district administrator in the Grevenbroich district from 1816 to 1839.

Studies and career

From 1783 to 1786 he studied law in Bonn and Heidelberg, but without taking a final exam. In 1787 he began a military career, initially in the service of Landgrave Ludwig Georg von Hessen-Darmstadt , then from 1795 in the service of the empire with the rank of colonel. In 1806 he retired to Hülchrath Castle. In 1794, the French confiscated the castle as a former property, but the family was able to buy it on September 17, 1803.

From Pröpper as district administrator

On April 24, 1816, the royal Prussian government in Düsseldorf announced the division of its district into districts and designated Grevenbroich as the district seat and the Freiherr von Pröpper as the first district administrator of the newly created district. He took his oath of office on June 15, 1816.

First he rented two rooms on the upper floor of the former monastery used as a factory, but he soon had to leave the rooms. With the district government, after he had not found any other rooms in Grevenbroich, he was able to move his residence to Schloss Hülchrath and the office to Wevelinghoven, which was complied with. The district office opened on Christmas Day 1816 in a house on Feldstrasse (Wevelinghoven), today's Poststrasse.

Shortly before the age of 75, von Pröpper retired on December 31, 1839. He died on August 4, 1848 at Hülchrath Castle.

literature

  • Karl Emsbach: The district administration in Wevelinghoven . In: 900 years of Wevelinghoven. Edited by the history association for Grevenbroich and the surrounding area e. V. Grevenbroich 1996 (Contributions to the history of the city of Grevenbroich 12), pp. 70–76.
  • Karl Emsbach: The district office of the Grevenbroich district and the construction of the state house . In: Contributions to the history of the city of Grevenbroich 10 (1994), pp. 135–144.

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personal data
SURNAME Pröpper, Paul Joseph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator of the Grevenbroich district
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Hülchrath Castle
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1848
Place of death Hülchrath Castle