Theodor von Heppe

Theodor Alexander von Heppe (born December 2, 1870 in Marienwerder , West Prussia , † August 2, 1954 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian officer, district administrator and district president. From 1923 he was head of the crown estate administration in Berlin and from 1930 vice-president of the Prussian Chamber of Accounts .

Life

origin

Von Heppe came from a noble family in Hesse and was the son of Adolf von Heppe (1836–1899), later Prussian district president of Trier and a real secret councilor , and Wilhelmine Butterweck (1840–1930).

Career

After studying law at the Universities of Lausanne , Leipzig , Berlin and Marburg , v. Heppe passed his legal traineeship exam in 1892 . From 1892 he did military service and in 1895 was appointed lieutenant in the reserve in the 2nd Rhenish Hussar Regiment No. 9 in Trier. In the meantime, his father had become the district president of the Trier administrative district . From 1897 he started his civil service career as a government assessor and was initially employed at the district office of the district of Trier in the Prussian Rhine province and from 1899 to 1902 as a district assistant worker in the district of Süder-Dithmarschen on the island of Helgoland in the then Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein .

In 1901 and 1902 he undertook study trips to India , Ceylon (today's Sri Lanka) and Egypt . When he returned, he continued his civil servant training and in 1902 was promoted to government councilor at the high presidium in Breslau ( Lower Silesia ). In 1903 he became the district administrator of the district Fraustadt in the province of Posen appointed. He held this office for 11 years until 1914. In the same year v. Heppe was promoted to the Upper Government Council and was hired as the representative of the President of the Royal Prussian Settlement Commission in Poznan .

When the First World War broke out , he was employed from August 1914 as Rittmeister of the Landwehr and adjutant to the commander of the stage munitions system of the 8th Army and later the 9th Army . From 1917 he was head of the military administration Białystok - Grodno and from 1918 head of the military administration of Lithuania in the city of Vilnius . Shortly before, in December 1917 , the Taryba had declared the separation from Russia and the restoration of the "independent" state of Lithuania with the capital Vilnius and with ties to the German Empire . Since Germany delayed recognition, the independent Republic of Lithuania was proclaimed again in 1918 , which was also enforced after fighting against the Red Army and Polish troops.

After the end of the war, v. Heppe was appointed regional president of East Friesland in 1918 , which belonged to the Prussian province of Hanover . Just 4 years later, however, he was temporarily retired in 1922 for political reasons. However, in the following year 1923 he was appointed head of the crown estate administration in Berlin and moved into the apartment of the former court garden director in the park of Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam . In 1924 he was promoted to director and in 1930 to vice-president of the Prussian Chamber of Accounts in Potsdam, which also functioned as the Weimar Republic's audit office . In 1935 v. Heppe to retire.

During his studies in Lausanne , Heppe became a member of the Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne in 1888 , where he was chairman of the honorary council of the old men’s association from 1927 . In addition, Heppe was a legal knight of the Order of St. John .

family

On January 2, 1904, he married his wife Wilhelmine Koenigs (born May 16, 1881 in Düsseldorf ; † August 2, 1947 in Hamburg ) in Berlin , the daughter of the royal Prussian secret councilor Gustav Koenigs and Alwine Bosier.

Orders and decorations

• Prussian Red Eagle Order 4th class
• Grand Cross of the House Order of Albrecht the Bear
• Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class
• Lübeck Hanseatic Cross
• Sachsen-Meinigische Medal of Honor for merit in the war

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jörg Wacker: Georg Potente, 1876–1945, plans and drawings. Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg. Akad.-Verl., Berlin 2003. p. 22.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Gerhard Schulze: Acta Borussica - New episode. 1st row: The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817-1934 / 38. Volume 11, II: November 14, 1918 to March 31, 1925 . from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2002, page 599.

literature

• Gerhard Schulze: Acta Borussica - New episode. 1st row: The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817-1934 / 38. Volume 11, II: November 14, 1918 to March 31, 1925 . from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2002, page 599 ( online view ; PDF; 2.0 MB)
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelige Häuser B Volume XIV, page 299, Volume 78 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1981
• Dr. Erwin Garvens : Directory of members of the Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne , Hamburg 1937
• Martin Tielke (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for East Frisia. Volume III, Aurich 2001, pp. 198–199 ( online )