Wilhelm von Voss (District Administrator)
Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig Freiherr von Voss (born December 6, 1784 in Magdeburg , † May 13, 1818 in Höhscheid , today a district of Solingen ) was a Prussian administrative officer.
Life
origin
Wilhelm von Voss belonged as the son of the Prussian major Albrecht Leopold von Voss and Auguste Albertine Ehregott von Voss, nee. Countess von der Schulenburg to the Mecklenburg nobility. The unmarried von Voss was of Lutheran denomination. In addition to his civil service career, he traded as a landowner in the Brandenburg Glien and Löwenberg district .
Career
There is no news of Wilhelm von Voss' training. According to Romeyk he was "district deputy, head of the knighthood and the estates in the Berlin landscape," when he was transferred to the Rhineland, which fell to Prussia after the Congress of Vienna, on November 28, 1815 . As civil commissioner he belonged to the general government of the Lower and Middle Rhine in Aachen and was at the same time assigned as special commissioner to the district director in Kleve. From there, in June 1816, he was initially commissioned temporarily with the administration of the newly formed Solingen district , which was finally entrusted to him with the highest cabinet order of January 16, 1817. His recall was in preparation when he committed suicide on May 13, 1818.
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. 796 .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Voss, Wilhelm von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Voss, Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig Freiherr von (= full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian administrative officer, district administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1784 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1818 |
| Place of death | Höhscheid |