Adolf Wedemeyer

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Johann Friedrich Adolph Ferdinand Wedemeyer (also: Johann Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand Wedemeyer , nickname Adolf or Adolph ; born September 5, 1793 in Elbingerode , † December 15, 1869 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer , Hanoverian privy councilor and minister of state .

Life

Born at the time of the Electorate of Hanover in 1793 in the city of Elbingerode in the Harz, in the office building of the local office as one of eight children of the chief magistrate Christian Friedrich Wedemeyer (* October 2, 1747 in Hardegsen ; † April 12, 1828 in Elbingerode) and Johanne Friederike Bona (born July 14, 1755 in Uebelngönne ; † April 3, 1807 in Elbingerode), Adolph Wedemeyer was baptized in the church a few days after his birth on September 12, 1793 . However, his parents sent him to Ilfeld to attend the local monastery school . Wedemeyer then studied medicine in Göttingen at the Georg August University for a year, which made him "[...] hypochondriac in terms of his health". Therefore, he switched to studying law . During this so-called " French era " in what was now the Kingdom of Westphalia , his father was only able to support him financially to a limited extent due to the negative economic consequences during the occupation by Napoleon Bonaparte's troops . Wedemeyer studied all the more diligently, also worked as an auditor in Harste during his studies and finally passed "[...] a sensationally good exam".

In the early years of the Kingdom of Hanover , Wedemeyer entered the Hanoverian civil service in 1818, initially receiving the position of Official Assessor to August Wilhelm Rehberg .

On November 11, 1821 Wedemeyer married his first wife Johanne Sophie Louise (born November 2, 1799 in Hanover; † April 23, 1833), a daughter of the Hanover government councilor Gabriel Wilhelm Ubbelohde and Eleonora Christine Louise, in the castle church of the Leineschloss , born von Chüden , with whom he would have the first five of his seven children.

From 1824 Adolf Wedemeyer belonged to the Hanoverian War Ministry , in which he was successively appointed initially to the war council, then to the secret war council and finally to the general secretary , equivalent to the position of undersecretary of state .

After the death of his father Wedemeyer was the result of the ongoing personal union between Britain and Hanover still in the center of the British Empire reigning King George IV. In 1829 with numerous and large partly goods in Hanover Kingdom invested : Provided with the signatures of the Hanoverian Minister Friedrich Franz Dietrich von Bremer , Franz von Meding and August von Stralenheim as well as the secretary Starcke , Wedemeyer - together with numerous other male relatives - “[...] with the in Dep. 25 A No. 101 (from 1598 August 10) named goods ”such as“ [...] the free court St. Galli in Hanover ”, but also with goods in or around Eldagsen - similar to Konrad Wedemeyer the centuries before Older people - but also in Alferde , Renwersen , Diedersen , Völksen , Kovingen , Berkel , Wangelist near Hameln , Hastenbeck , Börry , Hossingen , Lauenstein (Salzhemmendorf) and Linse .

In the meantime, Wedemeyer had also become active in parliament in addition to his administrative activities: first he traveled to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to Georg IV in the early 1830s as a lecturer in state affairs as a lecturer and companion of the Count and Minister of Kielmansegge seven “ commissaries ” who, together with the deputies from the upper and lower houses , had to examine the draft of the Hanoverian constitution .

In the following year, 1832, Wedemeyer became a member of the second chamber of the state assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover , initially by election, later by royal appointment. Around the same time, the royal court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves was about to complete the extension of the throne room for the first Hanoverian house of estates .

A good year after the death of his first wife, who was buried in Neustädter St. Andreas-Friedhof in 1833 , the father of three underage children - two others had already died in late August / early September 1829 - married on May 20, 1834 in the Church of St. Ulrici Brothers in Braunschweig the Auguste (Anna Henriette Auguste; * March 21, 1804 in Braunschweig; † January 16, 1871 in Hanover), a daughter of the Duke Braunschweig Chamber of Commerce and Forester Johann Georg Melsheimer and Anna Dorothea Henriette Hase . Wedemeyer had two more children with his second wife, who was “artistically very gifted” and a portrait of the painter Conrad L'Allemand (painter) was later burned.

In his function as a member of the second chamber of estates, which he would exercise alongside his other activities until the first year of the German Revolution in 1848, Wedemeyer distinguished himself as a determined representative of the changing governments. From 1841 to 1847 he was also president of the second chamber.

In 1848, Wedemeyer lived in a house in the - then - Georgstraße 8, according to the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover (from 1849) . During the March government in the same year, he - who was still Secretary General of the War Ministry - supported the Ministry of Interior Minister Johann Carl Bertram Stüve, particularly in opposition to the Frankfurt National Assembly . But when, after Stüve's resignation in autumn 1850, General Carl Jacobi took over the war ministry under "[...] the newly formed Münchhausen - Lindemann Ministry", Jacobi found it more expedient to transfer Wedemeyer's general secretariat to an officer. So Adolph Wedemeyer finally resigned from the Hanover War Ministry at Easter 1851 and was transferred to the office there as Oberamtmann in Ilten .

Only a little later, on May 21, 1851 , King Georg V. called Wedemeyer to take over the ministry of the interior under the newly formed cabinet of Prime Minister Eduard Christian von Lütcken . However, the Ministry of the Interior only existed for a few years. At least one correspondence from the Minister of the Interior to the scientist Carl Friedrich Gauß regarding a meteorological measuring instrument from his mechanic Moritz Meyerstein from 1854 has been preserved from these years . During this time, the Interior Ministry also intervened decisively in the simmering constitutional conflict when it presented the memorandum drawn up by Gustav Zimmermann to the Bundestag in Frankfurt on November 16, 1854 . With this book, Hanover fully supported the complaints of the knighthood , thus paving the way for the intervention of the Bundestag: After George V as a supporter of the so-called “monarchical principle”, i.e. absolutism , “[...] 1855 the constitution of 1848 in favor of the reactionary constitutional law of 1840 ”, and the Interior Ministry under Lütcken, who did not want to implement the decisions of the Bundestag, finally resigned at the end of July 1855 and made room for Wilhelm von Borries , who then implemented the Bundestag's instructions on August 1st that year, took Adolph Wedemeyer took his final leave of the Hanoverian civil service while retaining the title " Real Secret Council " previously awarded to him and moved to Göttingen .

When the Kingdom of Hanover had annexed Prussia after the Battle of Langensalza , Adolf Wedemeyer moved back to Hanover in autumn 1866, where he lived at Klagesmarkt 6 I - according to the address book of 1868 as a privy councilor and Excellency . In 1869 he was buried in the Engesohde town cemetery , as was his wife soon after him and one of his daughters at the beginning of the 20th century.

Others

Wedemeyer was a commander of the Guelph order first class. In terms of his family, he was head of the Anrode family affidavit (later Paetzig) and owner of the third majorate for Eldagsen and senior of the Wedemeyer tribe in the Voigt family foundation Gut Neuhof .

Archival material

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literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the year 1850 is given as the date of Wedemeyer's departure from the War Ministry, compare Klaus Mlynek: Wedemeyer, (2) .... In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 378; online through google books
  2. ↑ Deviating from this, “November 1853” is probably accidentally mentioned as the date of the appointment, actually the date of Wedemeyer's departure was probably thought of; compare Ferdinand Frensdorff: Wedemeyer, Adolf. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 41 (1896), pp. 414f .; Transcription as a German biography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Gernot Becker (responsible): 34.Wedemeyer , Adolph , illustrated family history (s) on the gebe.paperstyle.de page , last accessed on July 13, 2016
  2. ^ Wedemeyer, Johann Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek , last accessed on July 13, 2016
  3. ↑ Gernot Becker (responsible): 68. Wedemeyer, Christian Friedrich , illustrated family history (s) on the gebe.paperstyle.de page , last accessed on July 13, 2016
  4. ↑ a b c d Klaus Mlynek : Wedemeyer, (2) Johann Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 378; online through google books
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Leineschloss. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 598f.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Ferdinand Frensdorff : Wedemeyer, Adolf. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 41 (1896), pp. 414f .; Transcription as a German biography
  7. ↑ a b c NLA HA Dep. 25 A No. 238 on the arcinsys.niedersachsen.de page , last accessed on July 13, 2016
  8. ↑ Manfred Hamann (edit.): Overview of the holdings of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Hanover , Vol. 4: Deposit, map department and collections until 1945 (= publications of the Lower Saxony Archive Administration , Vol. 47), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992, ISBN 3-525-35531-9 and ISBN 9783525355312 , p. 253 Preview of Google Books
  9. ↑ Helmut Knocke : Ständehaus. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 598
  10. ↑ Ibid., P. 157
  11. ↑ Klaus Hentschel : Gauss, Meyerstein and Hanoverian Metrology (in English), in: Annals of Science , Vol. 64, No. 1, January 2007, p. 41-75; online via researchgate.net
  12. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Georg V, King of Hanover. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 210
  13. ↑ a b c Entry on Adolf Wedemeyer in Kalliope
personal data
SURNAME Wedemeyer, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedemeyer, Johann Friedrich Adolph Ferdinand; Wedemeyer, Johann Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand (full name); Wedemeyer, Adolf; Wedemeyer, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Hanoverian privy councilor and Minister of State
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Elbingerode
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1869
Place of death Hanover