Eduard of Magdeburg

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Eduard von Magdeburg as President of the Prussian Chamber of Accounts, ca.1904

Eduard Ludwig Karl Magdeburg , since 1904 of Magdeburg (born October 16, 1844 in Biebrich , † January 15, 1932 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer and social politician in the German Empire . He was raised to hereditary nobility in 1904 .

Origin and youth

Eduard Magdeburg came from a respected family of civil servants. He was the son of the court chamber councilor and later ducal-Nassau court chamber president Heinrich Magdeburg (1811-1885) and his wife Karoline geb. Künzli (1816–1900). His grandfather, the Judicial Councilor JLA Magdeburg (1768–1839), was a ducal-Nassau bailiff in Idstein , “a real German man who looked fruitful in the days of the Corsican adversary”, according to the Idstein pedagogue and historian Max Kirmsse , and one of the three Idstein residents Citizens who were involved in founding the Society for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research in 1812.

From 1854 to 1863 he attended the Dilthey School in Wiesbaden . After graduating from high school, he began to study law and political science at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1864 he was reciprocated in the Corps Suevia Heidelberg . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin.

Professional career

After the exams, Magdeburg entered the state administration service of the Kingdom of Prussia , which had annexed the Duchy of Nassau the year before . In 1867 he became a trainee lawyer at the district court in Diez , in 1868 a government trainee lawyer and in 1871 a government assessor with the Prussian government in Potsdam . During the Franco-Prussian War he was administrator of the sub-prefecture in Château-Thierry in the Aisne department . After the end of the war he first became a government assessor at the Landdrostei in Osnabrück , but in 1871 he moved to Metz as an unskilled worker and from 1872 as a government assessor at the District Presidium of the Lorraine district in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . From 1875 to 1879 he was district administrator for the district of Sonderburg in northern Schleswig .

In 1879 he became assistant in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, in 1881 assistant in the II. (Economic) department in the Reich Office of the Interior . In the same year he was there as a secret government adviser for the support residence law and the miners' associations . In this position he was secretary of the Federal Council in 1881 . During this time he was one of the Federal Council representatives at the Reichstag Commission for the law on health insurance for workers (KGV) of 1883. He was instrumental in the conception of the third template for accident insurance , where he designed the basic types of commercial employers' liability insurance associations . The Accident Insurance Act passed by the Reichstag on July 6, 1884 and entered into force on October 1, 1885 , was developed primarily by the speakers Eduard Magdeburg, Karl Gamp and Tonio Bödiker , with Chancellor Bismarck having had a strong personal influence on it with numerous directives. In 1881 Magdeburg developed a draft bill for a radical reform of the Support Residence Act, which, however, was not implemented.

In 1884 Magdeburg was appointed vice president of the government, d. H. Head of the regional council, transferred to the Kassel administrative region . There he suggested the formation of an aid association for released prisoners in 1884 in order to support them in their efforts to reintegrate into society after they had served their sentences. At Magdeburg's invitation, 18 committed men decided on November 28, 1884 in the small meeting room of the government building in Kassel to found the Association for the Welfare of Released Prisoners in the Cassel District (Prison Welfare Association) and elected a board of directors. On December 31, 1884, the eight board members signed the statutes of the association from which today's association “Soziale Hilfe e. V. ”emerged in Kassel.

On July 1, 1886, Magdeburg was appointed district president of the Kassel district. This reflected the change and upgrading of his office, as he was the first head of this authority after the State Administration Act of 1883 had revoked the senior president's authority to lead . Only five months later, on December 6th, 1886, he was appointed as Undersecretary of State to the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry in Berlin and was appointed to the Real Secret Upper Government Council, but remained Government Vice-President in Kassel until March 11th, 1887. From 1887 to 1890 he was authorized representative for Prussia to the Federal Council, in 1891 he was deputy authorized representative. In 1892 he returned to the provincial capital of Kassel as President of the Hesse-Nassau Province . In 1895 he was appointed to the Real Privy Council with the title of excellence . In 1898 he finally became chief president of the Prussian Chamber of Accounts and at the same time President of the Court of Accounts of the German Reich .

Personal

Eduard von Magdeburg was retired in 1904 and raised to hereditary nobility . He died in 1932 at the age of 87.

He was married to Cecilie Elisabeth geb. von Homeyer (1853-1941). The two had a son and daughter Luise Christiane Auguste Karoline Sophie von Magdeburg (* December 27, 1885 in Kassel; † 1967)

Honors

literature

  • Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia in Heidelberg. 3. Edition. (Members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 588
  • Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 103 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
  • Florian Tennstedt: Employers' liability insurance association as the carrier of the statutory accident insurance. The role of the Kassel District President Eduard von Magdeburg in the process of becoming a welfare state. In: Wolfgang grid, Bertram Schulin, Hans F. Zacher (eds.): Festschrift for Otto Ernst Krasney on the 65th birthday. CH Beck, Munich 1997, pp. 611-627.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In some places Diez an der Lahn is also given as the place of birth. B. Magdeburg, Eduard . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 13, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p.  62 .
  2. ^ Hainbuch / Tennstedt (edit.): Sozialpolitiker, p. 103; elsewhere Emilie geb. Stahlin from Idstein († 1892) referred to as the widow of President Magdeburg ( http://www.alt-idstein.info/html/stiftung_zur_rechte_zeit.html )
  3. ↑ a b alt-idstein.info
  4. ↑ alt-idstein.info
  5. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 67/586.
  6. ^ Theodor Lohmann, Tonio Bödiker and Erich von Woedtke were also involved as Federal Council representatives in the Reichstag Commission.
  7. ^ Bödiker was the first president of the Reich Insurance Office from 1884 to 1897 .
  8. ↑ Andreas Hänlein, Florian Tennstedt: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: The workers' legislation of the German Empire: Safeguarding standard risks in working life with the help of public law. ) (PDF) p. 56.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / cms.uni-kassel.de
  9. ↑ Marcus Dittrich: Bundle & direct: the Kassel regional council between managing and designing. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-89958-400-4 , p. 217.
  10. ↑ Social aid for 125 years. (PDF; 2.7 MB) Social Aid e. V., Kassel 2010, p. 5.
  11. ↑ Sozial-hilfe-kassel.de
  12. ↑ Since 1871 the Prussian Chamber of Accounts has also been the “Court of Accounts of the German Empire”.
  13. ↑ Outstanding representative of the Prussian civil service (City of Kassel)
personal data
SURNAME Magdeburg, Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Magdeburg, Eduard; Magdeburg, Eduard Ludwig Karl; Magdeburg, Eduard Ludwig Karl von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian District President, Upper President and President of the Chamber of Accounts and the Court of Accounts of the German Reich
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden-Biebrich
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1932
Place of death Potsdam