Robert von Görschen (administrative lawyer)

Robert von Görschen

Robert Walter Ernst Richard von Görschen (born March 27, 1864 in Aachen ; † January 4, 1936 there ) was a Prussian senior government councilor and government vice-president.

Professional background

Robert von Görschen came from the old Thuringian and later evangelical aristocratic family of von Görschen and was the son of the regional court assistant as well as legal advisor and chairman of the board of directors of the Aachen and Munich fire insurance companies Robert Oskar Julius von Görschen and Elise Brüggemann (1833-1917). After graduating from high school, he studied law and political science in Kleve in autumn 1884 in Munich , Marburg , Heidelberg and Berlin . Here he passed his legal traineeship on May 13, 1888 . From June 9, 1888 by Görschen as a court clerk in the District Court of Eschweiler accepted and sworn in on June 22 1888th He then completed his legal traineeship in Eschweiler and at the regional court in Aachen .

On September 9, 1890, von Görschen began his professional career as a government trainee with the Aachen government. Three years later he was promoted to Regierungsassessor and was with the government in Kassel , at the District Office Stormarn and probably in Wandsbek , before he was transferred back to the government on November 4, Kassel 1895th Finally, on August 1, 1902, he was promoted to the government council . One month later he worked initially as a provisional and from February 23, 1903 as a permanent district administrator in the Altenkirchen district . On October 10, 1912, he was finally appointed to the higher government council of the Cologne government. The last stage of his career was on June 1, 1919, when he was promoted to Vice President of Aachen.

In 1923 he was taken prisoner together with the Aachen district president Wilhelm Rombach and the police president Fritz Freiherr von Korff due to passive resistance against the highest authority of the areas on the left bank of the Rhine , the Interallied Rhineland Commission , which was occupied by French and Belgians at that time . They were released on January 23, 1923, but with the condition that they no longer enter these areas. The Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission initially pushed her to the unoccupied area around Elberfeld and a few days later brought her to Königswinter and Altenkirchen / Westerwald. Returning to Elberfeld after constant back and forth, the Aachen district president Rombach and his representative von Görschen finally opened a branch of the Aachen government in the town hall of Barmen at the end of February 1923 and both were now able to resume their government duties. After intensive discussions with the occupation authorities and after the end of the war in the Ruhr as part of the occupation of the Ruhr , the deportation was withdrawn a year later and von Görschen was able to return to Aachen on March 12, 1924 together with Rombach. Here von Görschen submitted an application for retirement, exhausted and frustrated. This request was granted with effect from July 1, 1924.

Secondary and club activities

In addition to his professional career as a senior administrative officer, Robert von Görschen has been active in senior positions at various associations and institutions since his tenure in Aachen. These were as follows:

• November 22, 1919: Member of Club Aachener Casino
• 1920: Member of the Aachen recreation society
• February 16, 1898 Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John
  • 1906 foreman of the Rhenish Cooperative of the Order of St. John and member of the convention
  • June 24, 1908 Knight of the Knight of the Order of St. John
  • From 1424 also foreman in the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stift Bonn, today Johanniterkrankenhaus Bonn
• June 26, 1920 to October 14, 1934 chairman of the Luisen Hospital in Aachen
• May 9, 1924 to January 4, 1925: Chairman of the supervisory board of Aachen Münchener Feuer-Versicherungs-Gesellschaft (predecessor of AachenMünchener Versicherungs AG) and supervisory board chairman of numerous companies affiliated with AM.
• 1927 to 1934: Chairman of the Aachen Museum Association
• 1932 to 1933: President of the Aachen Rotary Club
• 1935: appointed councilor of the city of Aachen

Honors

• For his services in passive resistance, he, " the upright bearer of the old Prussian administrative spirit, the tireless fighter for German culture in the threatened Westmark, the sensitive patron of local art " was awarded honorary citizenship of the RWTH Aachen on May 22, 1925 .
• For these services Robert von Görschen was also honored with the Prussian Landwehr Service Award of 1st class.
• " On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of his birth, and in grateful recognition of his great contributions to the design and development of the university " was appointed by Görschen on March 27, 1934 Honorary Senator of the RWTH Aachen.
• Furthermore, a street in Aachen was named after him in his honor on March 28, 1934 by the police chief.

family

House Deusner-Görschen, residence of the Robert von Görschen family

Robert von Görschen was married to Emy Marie Rosalie Honigmann (1871-1944), daughter of the mine director Carl Eduard Honigmann, son of Eduard Honigmann . In 1880 they acquired the Matthéy house in Aachen, built by Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel , in Hindenburgstrasse 67, today's Theaterstrasse , which the family later sold to the cloth merchant Teo Mattéy after the Second World War.

The couple had two children, a son and a daughter. The son Hans-Wolf von Görschen (1894-1944) became honorary senator of the University of Greifswald , banker in Cologne and Rotterdam and belonged as a resistance fighter to the Kreisau circle , which is why he was arrested in December 1944 and executed in April 1945. The daughter Eleonore (1901–1983) married the banker Werner Arthur von Schnitzler (1888–1964).

Robert von Görschen found his final resting place in Westfriedhof I in Aachen.

Literature and Sources

• RWTH Aachen University Archives, file 190
• Annette Fusenig: How to invent a world equestrian festival - The Aachen jumping, riding and driving tournament from 1924 to 1939 , dissertation 2004
• Alfred von Reumont , 100 Years Recreational Society Aachen . Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the society, Aachen 1937, p. 90;
• Albert Huyskens , The Aachen cultural associations of a scientific direction , in: Yearbook of the Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen 3 (1950), p. 170 196;
• Eduard Arens, Wilhelm L. Janssen , History of the Club Aachener Casino , new ed. by Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens , Aachen 2nd edition 1964, no. 878, p. 227;
• Bernhard Poll (ed.), History of Aachen in data , Aachen 1965, pp. 288, 318;
• 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. 472 .
• Klaus Habetha (ed.), Science between technical and social challenges: the Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen 1970 to 1995 , Aachen 1995, p. 667
• Memorandum of the Aachener und Münchener Feuer Versicherungsgesellschaft, Aachen 1925 , p. 65 (picture), 70; In memoriam Robert von Görschen, 1936 (with address at the funeral service given by Grünagel, obituary notices) ( Stadtarchiv Aachen LG 510);

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Wolf von Görschen - entry in the British National Archives