Rudolf von Beckerath (lawyer)

Rudolf Heinrich von Beckerath (born January 20, 1863 in Krefeld , † May 13, 1945 in Wiesbaden ) was a German lawyer and administrative officer.

Origin and education

Rudolf von Beckerath was born as the son of the businessman and factory owner Gerhard Benjamin von Beckerath (1827–1871). After attending grammar school in Krefeld, he studied law at the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . On June 5, 1888 von Beckerath, who was a Mennonite , married Elisabeth Georgine nee Wilhelmi (* February 4, 1865).

Career

In 1881/1882 he served as a one-year volunteer with the 1st Rhenish Hussar Regiment No. 7. In September 1902, he retired from the Landwehr cavalry as Rittmeister.

In 1890 he passed the second state examination in law and then worked as a government assessor in Trier until 1897 . In 1898 he was appointed district administrator of the Dill district , then from 1902 to 1909 he was district administrator of the Hanau district .

From 1905 to 1909 he was a member of the Kassel municipal council .

In 1909 von Beckerath succeeded Count Kurd von Berg-Schönfeld as police chief of the Hanover Police Department . In this position he had contact with the most important local personalities, such as the "Major General Voigt as a representative of the garrisons " in Hanover , the District President Fritz von Felsen, as well as with Hanoverian senators and city school councilors.

After the First World War and the November Revolution, von Beckerath recognized on November 9, 1918 "[...] the authority of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council [... and] assured him of the loyalty of the police ". But that was only due to the circumstances: He also acted in the Weimar Republic ...

“[...] conservative in the general sense of the word. During his almost 20 years as police chief in Hanover, he never dealt with party politics . After the overthrow, endeavored to maintain the tried and tested principles of the Prussian administration against the ruling parties' addiction to reorganization . "

In connection with the investigation of the murder of the mass murderer Fritz Haarmann , von Beckrath ordered in 1925 “[...] a major search operation for Whitsun. The water level of the Leine was lowered and the river was systematically searched, ”including human bones.

On April 1, 1928, von Beckerath retired when he reached the age limit. He was followed by Erwin Barth ( SPD ).

Private

On June 5, 1888, von Beckrath married Elisabeth Georgine , geb. Wilhelmi . They had a daughter.

In 1943 von Beckrath moved from Hanover to Halle (Saale) . Most recently he lived in Frankfurt-Höchst . Shortly after the end of the Second World War , he died in a hospital in Wiesbaden.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

• Georg-Wilhelm Hanna (edit.): The district of Hanau and its district administrators . Ed .: Kreissparkasse Hanau . Hanau 1989, p. 25.
• 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. 92.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 67.
• Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. Vol. 71 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , No. 24.
• NN : Rudolf von Beckerath . In: Hannoversche Köpfe aus Verwaltung, Wirtschaft, Kunst und Literatur , Vol. 1. H. Osterwald, Hannover 1929. The texts are not named as authors, and there are no page numbers in the book
• Dieter Pelda: The members of the Prussian Communal Parliament in Kassel 1867-1933 (= Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 22 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 8). Elwert, Marburg 1999, ISBN 3-7708-1129-1 , p. 9.
• Dirk Riesener : The Hanover Police Department. Society, industry and the police from the German Reich to the Federal Republic of Germany. Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hannover 2006. ISBN 3-7752-5926-0 , esp., 269. Preview of Google books .

Web links

• Beckerath, Rudolf Heinrich von. Hessian biography. (As of November 27, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Remarks

1. ↑ This text by an anonymous author on a portrait of Rudolf von Beckerath, which the Hanoverian painter August Heitmüller drew around 1928 and had copied through the publishing house of the printing company H. Osterwald , was probably personally authorized by von Beckerath .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Death register of the registry office Wiesbaden No. 2654/1945.
2. ^ NN: Rudolf von Beckerath ; Hanna.
3. ↑ Hanna.
4. ↑ Beckerath, Rudolf von in the database of Lower Saxony people of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library .
5. ↑ Riesener, pp. 30, 64.
6. ↑ Hans-Dieter Schmid (Ed.): Feste und Fiegen in Hannover (= Hannoversche Schriften zur Regional- und Lokalgeschichte , Vol. 10), Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 1995, ISBN 3-89534-143-6 , p. 196 ; Preview over google books .
7. ^ Riesener, p. 269.
8. ^ NN: Rudolf von Beckerath .
9. ↑ Hanna Vollmer-Heitmann: Chronicle Library of the 20th Century , Vol. 7: 1924-1927 , Gütersloh; Munich: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-577-17187-1 , p. 200; Preview over google books
10. ^ NN: Rudolf von Beckerath .
11. ^ Klaus Mlynek : 1928 , in: Hannover Chronik , pp. 165ff .; online through google books
12. ↑ Hanna.
13. ↑ Hanna.