Wolfgang Friedrich von Schenck
Wolfgang Friedrich Philipp Heinrich von Schenck (born March 27, 1768 in Siegen , † January 10, 1848 ibid) was a Prussian administrative lawyer and the first district administrator of the Siegen district .
family
Wolfgang Friedrich was the son from the marriage of the Nassau judicial councilor and bailiff Ludwig Adolf von Schenck (1738–1816) and Anna Elisabeth born. Rückert. His family was an old nassau-siegensche, evangelical civil servant family, who were ennobled in 1775 ( imperial nobility ).
He married on March 10, 1800 in Rastatt with Maria Franziska Elisabeth Rochlitz (1780–1837), daughter of a grand ducal councilor of the Baden Chamber of Accounts; from the marriage there were three sons and three daughters.
Life
Wolfgang Friedrich von Schenck studied law at the universities of Herborn and Marburg from 1784 . From 1789 he worked as a government secretary in Dillenburg . In 1801 he became a judicial and consistorial councilor and chairman of the sub-directorate for the Principality of Nassau-Siegen . In 1804 he was appointed a councilor and removed from this office in 1809. From 1811 he was Vice-President of the Tribunal in Dillenburg. In 1813 he was again head of the sub-directorate or district director of Siegen.
In 1816 he took over provisionally, then finally in 1817 the district administration in Siegen and was therefore the first Prussian district administrator. He held this until the end of his tenure and retirement in 1846.
Act
Wolfgang Friedrich von Schenck is associated with the incorporation of the Siegerland into Prussia and initiatives on the regulation for the administration of mining, smelting and hammering in 1819, smelting and hammering regulation 1830, Haubergs regulation 1834, 1846 meadow regulation.
honors and awards
swell
- Wilhelm Güthling: The district administrators of the district of Siegen from 1817 to 1919, in: Siegerland (47) 1970, pp. 35–43
- Walther Hubatsch (Ed.): Outline of German Administrative History 1815-1945, Vol. 8: Westfalen, Marburg 1980, p. 303
- Lothar Irle : Siegerland Personalities and Gender Lexicon, Siegen 1974, pp. 285–286
- Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816 - 1945, Düsseldorf 1994, pp. / 16 - 717
- Dietrich Wegmann: The leading state administrative officials of the province of Westphalia 1815-1918, Münster 1969, pp. 324-325
- Siegen Zeitung, article from May 30, 1973
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g District Archive Siegen-Wittgenstein: Information from November 19, 2015
- ↑ Internet presence www.ancestry.com [1]
- ↑ private family-historical website archive link ( Memento from July 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Internet presence www.territorial.de [2]
- ↑ Internet presence of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district archive link ( Memento from August 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
predecessor | Office | successor |
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District Administrator of the District of Siegen 1815–1846 |
Arnold Ludwig von Holtzbrinck |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schenck, Wolfgang Friedrich von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schenck, Wolfgang Friedrich Philipp Heinrich von (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer, district administrator of the Siegen district |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1768 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wins |
DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1848 |
Place of death | Wins |