Robert von Reitzenstein

Baron Alexander Gustav Otto Robert von Reitzenstein (born August 28, 1821 in Ehrenbreitstein , † June 6, 1902 in Recklinghausen ) was a lawyer and Prussian district administrator for the Recklinghausen district .

Life

Robert von Reitzenstein came from the Blankenberg-Sparrenberg line of the Reitzenstein family . He was the son of the Prussian Colonel Ludwig von Reitzenstein. His father died on March 8, 1868 in Wesel. After attending school in Koblenz and Wesel he studied in Bonn and Berlin law . In 1841 he became a member of the Corps Palatia in Bonn . He then worked as a trainee lawyer. In 1848 Reitzenstein represented the sick district administrator of Recklinghausen, Friedrich Carl Devens . In 1849 he was appointed provisional district administrator and finally in 1850 district administrator. On September 2, 1882, he was character awarded as Privy Councilor. In 1893 he left office after 45 years of service. He had been married to Maria Susanna Lobeck (October 30, 1819 - December 17, 1895) since 1855. She was the daughter of the city councilor August Lobeck and Josepha Kindermann. It was unusual for the time that he married a Catholic woman as a Protestant.

Honors

1869: Order of the Red Eagle III. class
1872: Order of the Crown IV class
1893: Order of the Crown, 2nd class
1892: Honorary citizen of the city of Recklinghausen
In 1913 a memorial stone was erected on the Herzogswall in Recklinghausen.
The Reitz stone road in Recklinghausen is named after him.

literature

Christian Schneider, Joseph Wiedenhöfer: The Recklinghausen district 1850-1910. In memory of the District Administrator Freiherr von Reitzenstein . Commissioned by Heinrich Schöningh, Münster 1911.

Web links

Working group of vestischer Geschichts- und Heimatvereine eV - district administrators

Individual evidence

^ Albert Weskamp: Robert Freiherr v. Reitzenstein - biography . In: Christian Schneider, Joseph Wiedenhöfer: The Recklinghausen district 1850-1910. In memory of the District Administrator Freiherr von Reitzenstein . Commission publisher by Heinrich Schöningh, Münster 1911. pp. 1–5, here p. 2.
↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 25 , 57
^ Albert Weskamp: Robert Freiherr v. Reitzenstein - biography . In: Christian Schneider, Joseph Wiedenhöfer: The Recklinghausen district 1850-1910. In memory of the District Administrator Freiherr von Reitzenstein . Commission publisher by Heinrich Schöningh, Münster 1911. pp. 1–5.
^ Günter Brakelmann: In the footsteps of contemporary church history: Festschrift for Helmut Geck on his 75th birthday, LIT Verlag Münster, 2010
↑ Karin Schwarz: Bourgeois self-portrayal in the Ruhr area between 1871 and 1918 . Diss., University of Trier 2004, p. 75.

personal data
SURNAME	Reitzenstein, Robert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reitzenstein, Freiherr Alexander Gustav Otto Robert von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and Prussian district administrator for the Recklinghausen district
DATE OF BIRTH	August 28, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ehrenbreitstein
DATE OF DEATH	June 6, 1902
Place of death	Recklinghausen

[1] Albert Weskamp: Robert Freiherr v. Reitzenstein - biography . In: Christian Schneider, Joseph Wiedenhöfer: The Recklinghausen district 1850-1910. In memory of the District Administrator Freiherr von Reitzenstein . Commission publisher by Heinrich Schöningh, Münster 1911. pp. 1–5, here p. 2.

[2] Kösener corps lists 1910, 25 , 57

[3] Albert Weskamp: Robert Freiherr v. Reitzenstein - biography . In: Christian Schneider, Joseph Wiedenhöfer: The Recklinghausen district 1850-1910. In memory of the District Administrator Freiherr von Reitzenstein . Commission publisher by Heinrich Schöningh, Münster 1911. pp. 1–5.

[4] Günter Brakelmann: In the footsteps of contemporary church history: Festschrift for Helmut Geck on his 75th birthday, LIT Verlag Münster, 2010

[5] Karin Schwarz: Bourgeois self-portrayal in the Ruhr area between 1871 and 1918 . Diss., University of Trier 2004, p. 75.