Wilhelm Heyden

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Wilhelm Carl Christian Heyden (born October 4, 1844 in Hamburg ; † July 7, 1932 there ) was a German lawyer, journalist, historian and politician.

Life

Heyden visited the Johanneum and later studied in Heidelberg , Berlin and Goettingen jurisprudence . After receiving his doctorate, he was enrolled as a lawyer in Hamburg on April 29, 1867 and was admitted as such until 1885. In addition to his legal work, he also worked as an editor for Hamburg state affairs for the Hamburg Correspondents . In 1885 Heyden became secretary of the Hamburg citizenship and the citizens' committee as the successor to the late Carl Hermann Eberstein . From 1912 his official title was Syndikus der Bürgerschaft . Heyden retired on July 1, 1920. From 1877, with interruptions, until 1892, Heyden was the record-keeping director of the Hamburger Sparkasse from 1827 . From 1881 he belonged to the Association for Hamburg History , in the meantime also as a board member, and has published some historical treatises in the journal of the Association for Hamburg History .

Works

  • The members of the Hamburg Parliament. 1859–1862 , Hamburg 1909
  • The development of political suffrage in Hamburg , Hamburg 1894
  • The Hamburger Sparkasse from 1827 , Hamburg 1893

literature

  • Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: Wilhelm Heyden (1844-1932) memories of the old citizens. In Hamburgische Geschichts- und Heimatblätter, Volume 13 (1994), Issue 4, pp. 89f

Individual evidence

  1. Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg legal profession from 1815 to 1879 . Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 364