Arthur Will

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Arthur Will as a member of the Reichstag in 1912

Arthur Will (born September 11, 1848 in Trebenow , Cammin i. Pom. , † December 4, 1912 in Schweslin ) was a farmer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Will attended elementary school up to the age of 14 and from 1864 to 1870 the grammar school in Treptow . Between 1871 and 1875 he studied languages ​​and history in Berlin . Then, on the advice of the doctor, he swapped the scientific profession for agriculture and in 1886 bought a farm in Schweslin. As a one-year-old he served in the Pomeranian Field Artillery Regiment No. 2 and took part in the war against France with this regiment . He was a reserve officer, office and community leader and member of the district council.

From 1894 to 1912 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and from 1893 to 1912 also a member of the German Reichstag for the electoral district of Köslin 1 ( Stolp , Lauenburg in Pomerania ) and the German Conservative Party .

In the Reichstag elections in 1898 there were serious irregularities that kept the Reichstag's electoral examination committee busy until 1903. After the first ballot, Will won 11,016 out of 22,371 valid votes, and the liberal candidate Karl Eduard Wüstenberg from Rexin won 10,030. In the runoff election that followed, Will won by 1,184 votes. Both in the main election and in the runoff election, "numerous deviations from the election regulations" were found. The draft proposal of the commission for further investigations was no longer put to the vote in the Reichstag due to the end of the legislative period and thus remained unresolved.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 418 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)
  2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 50; Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 85 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250)
  3. ^ Report of the Election Examination Commission. (PDF) Munich Digitization Center, p. 185 , accessed on June 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Reichstag - Gesammtregister. (PDF) Munich Digitization Center, p. 9405 , accessed on June 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Will, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Trebenow , District of Cammin i. Pom.
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1912
Place of death Schweslin