Robert Urban

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Robert Karl Urban (born September 29, 1826 in Schädlitz near Pless ; † November 11, 1899 in Darmstadt ) was a German district administrator.

Life

Urban was the son of the princely councilor in Pless, August Urban and his wife Antonie nee Drosdarius. On August 17, 1864, he married Marianne von Knobelsdorff (born March 26, 1837 in Sprottau), daughter of the captain of the artillery guards, Heinrich von Knobelsdorff.

Urban attended high school in Gliwice, where he passed the Abitur. He then studied law and camera science at the University of Breslau and Berlin. During this time he became a member of the Corps Silesia in 1847 . On October 1, 1849 he passed the first state examination ("passed"). After his legal clerkship at the district court of Quedlinburg and district court of Halberstadt, he passed the oral second state examination in the repeat examination on March 15, 1852.

On September 10, 1852 he became a government trainee with the Potsdam government and the district office of the Teltow district. After years of illness, he was released on December 15, 1857. On November 30, 1859, he was taken back into the civil service and on February 5, 1862 he took the Grand State Examination (“not passed sufficiently at the moment”). On January 7, 1863, another Grand State Examination took place (“well passed”). On February 7, 1863, he became a government assessor, first in the Frankfurt (Oder) government and then in the Bromberg government. From April 6, 1865 he was on leave for one year to work in the Foreign Ministry. After the annexation of Electorate Hesse and the Free City of Frankfurt, he worked in the civil government in Kassel and Frankfurt am Main, then at the embassies in Darmstadt, Stuttgart and Munich. On January 29, 1971, he was employed by the State Department. On October 26, 1872, he was given leave of absence for use in internal service. On October 18, 1872, he became provisional and from November 19, 1873, permanent district administrator of the Pleß district. On November 29, 1873 he was formally dismissed from the Foreign Ministry.

In 1877 he was first provisional and in 1878 finally district administrator of the Untertaunus district . He held this position until his retirement in 1895. After that he lived in Darmstadt.

military service

In 1847/48 he was a one-year volunteer in the 6th Jäger Battalion in Berlin. In 1852 he became second lieutenant in the 28th Landwehr Regiment. In January 1864 he was called up and served as adjutant in the 4th Brandenburg Landwehr Regiment No. 24. In the Franco-German War he was called up as a Landwehr officer in July 1870 and took part in the fighting in France in the 2nd Nassau Infantry Regiment 88 . In 1888 he was passed as a major.

Awards

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. 228.
  • Fritz Maywald: General directory of members of the Corps Silesia 1821–1961 , Part I, Cologne 1961, serial no. 246
  • Kösener corps lists 1960, 83 , 246

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Civil registry office Bessungen : death register . No. 159/1899.
  2. ↑ Brief reference
  3. ↑ Proof on territorial.de
personal data
SURNAME Urban, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urban, Robert Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative officer, district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Pless
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1899
Place of death Darmstadt