Walther von Miquel
Walther Philipp Franz von (since 1897) Miquel (born April 28, 1869 in Osnabrück , † November 26, 1945 in Schwanenbeck ) was a German administrative lawyer and district president in Prussia.
Life
Walther von Miquel was born as the son of the then mayor of Osnabrück and later Prussian finance minister Johannes Miquel (ennobled in 1897). After attending school, he studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he became a member of the Corps Hannovera in 1889 . As an administrative lawyer, he became district administrator in the Westhavelland district in Rathenow in 1900 and from 1909 district administrator in the Saarbrücken district . In 1916 he was appointed police president of Wroclaw and in 1917 the government president of the Opole administrative district in Opole . Already during the First World War there were first unrest among the population in Opole in July 1918 and strikes in the mines. In connection with the strike alone, Walther von Miquel issued almost 2000 penalty orders against striking miners from the Giesche mine . In 1921 he resigned from civil service. He was deputy chairman of the Lower Silesian Land Delivery Association and President of the Reich Landowners Association. He later retired at the Kollm estate by marriage near Sproitz in Upper Lusatia, where he was kidnapped by the Russians in 1945 and died in custody.
Walther von Miquel had been married to Alice since October 9, 1917. Baroness von Rüxleben, b. Countess of Reichenbach. With her he had two daughters.
literature
- 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. 631 f .
- Hanspeter Buchleitner: The Saarbrücken district administrators since 1816. In: Border as fate. 150 years of the Saarbrücken district. Saarbrücken 1966, p. 204.
Web links
- Saarland biographies
- Walther von Miquel in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
Individual evidence
- ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 70 , 474.
- ^ A calendar of events in 1918 ( Memento of April 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.schloss-kollm
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miquel, Walther von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miquel, Walther Philipp Franz von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer and Prussian administrative officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osnabrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1945 |
| Place of death | Schwanenbeck |