Andreas Widmer
Andreas Widmer (born June 19, 1856 in Wittenberg , Bessarabia ; † May 7, 1931 ) was a Bessarabian German farmer and politician.
Life
Widmer's origins from Swabia were unmistakable, not even in Russian , which he had mastered completely. In the early 1870s he attended secondary school in Comrat . At that time the German administration was adapted to the Russian peasant administration. In May 1874 Widmer joined the Tarutino community as a village clerk . He succeeded the Russian official clerk of the Volost . The Russo-Ottoman War (1877–1878) presented him with particular challenges. As the first civil servant to speak and write the Russian language, Widmer was exempted from service in the Imperial Russian Army in 1877 . Until the October Revolution he was a permanent member of the recruiting commission. Dmitri Andreevich Tolstoy sent him a letter of commendation in 1881. He refused the ennoblement . Born a farmer, he wanted to die as a farmer too.
He stayed at the post in Tarutino for 30 years. The Zemstvo of Akkerman , he sat in the since 1881, chose him in 1903 as Vice President. After the Russian Revolution in 1905 , he moved to the Duma as a member of parliament in 1906 . In 1907 he became director of the Akkerman prison system and was a justice of the peace for many years . He was repeatedly an administrative member, vice-president and authorized representative of the Zemstvo, which decorated the conference room with his picture. In the Parliament of the Kingdom of Romania , Widmer was first a senator and then a member of the Chamber. Ferdinand I (Romania) made him vice-president and then president of the Akkerman Zemstvo by decree . Widmer was president of the first German committee in inner-ethnic life. With his expertise in the land question, he rendered valuable services to the German peasantry. The school commission of the German minority of Bessarabia elected him on January 4, 1922 to head the three-person board with Daniel Haase and Heinrich Roemmich.
Widmer was not only a very capable civil servant, but also one of the greatest wine growers . He was married to Salome Christine born on October 1, 1876. Raugust. The marriage produced five daughters and seven sons. Wilhelm and Olga lived in Stuttgart, Klara and Alma in Romania. Widmer's wife died on March 21, 1931, seven weeks before him.
Honors
- Silver medal on the ribbon of the Order of Stanislaus (1892)
- Silver medal on ribbon of the Russian Order of Saint Anne (1898 and 1899)
- Golden medal on the Annaband (1904)
- Silver medal on the ribbon of the Order of St. Vladimir (1910)
- Golden medal on the Alexander bracelet (1914)
- Order of the Crown of Romania (1923)
literature
- August Erdmann: Andreas A. Widmer , in: Richard Heer: The old and the new homeland of the Bessarabian Germans. Documentation 1920–1980 . Bietigheim-Bissingen, ISBN 3-922942-00-8 , pp. 134-136.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cornelia Schlarb: Tradition in Transition: the Evangelical Lutheran Congregations in Bessarabia 1814-1940 (2007)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Widmer, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Andrej Andrejewitsch (common name, also among the Bessarabian Germans) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bessarabian German farmer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maloyaroslavz Perschyj , Bessarabia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1931 |