Anton von Wegnern

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Anton Wilhelm Pius Gustav von Wegnern (born April 6, 1809 in Preußisch Eylau , † November 14, 1891 in Berlin ) was a Prussian administrative officer and German politician.

family

He came from a family who originally lived on their estate in Osterweddingen ( Province of Saxony ), but had already moved to Königsberg in the 16th century, where they were raised to the Polish nobility in 1635 and given the Prussian indigenous status. He was the son of Carl von Wegnern (1777-1854), Königsberg Tribunal President and Chancellor of the Kingdom of Prussia , and Emilie Hedwig Countess zu Eulenburg (1780-1853) from the House of Prassen.

Wegnern married on April 24, 1840 in Königsberg Elma Biegon zu Czudnochowski (born March 17, 1818 at Bledau Castle near Cranz ( Königsberg district ); † February 22, 1900 in Berlin). Two sons came from this marriage, the royal Prussian Colonel Friedrich (Fritz) Wilhelm von Wegnern (1851–1924), most recently director of the Great Military Orphanage in Potsdam , and the princely schaumburg-Lippe state minister and real secret councilor Martin von Wegnern (1855–1897 ).

Life

Wegnern studied law at the Albertus University in Königsberg and became a member of the Lithuania Corpsland Team . Around 1835 he was transferred to the Masonic lodge to the three crowns in Königsberg i. Pr. In which his father, the Chancellor of the Kingdom of Prussia Carl von Wegnern , had recently received the honorary master's degree for his services as master of the lodge.

After the preparatory service, Wegnern was appointed as a government assessor on April 20, 1843 to the district administrator in the district of Lyck . He took the same position in 1851 in the district of Königsberg i. Pr. A. From 1856 he was senior government councilor and government vice-president in the Liegnitz administrative region . From 1871 he performed the same function in the Poznan administrative district . In 1873 he was appointed district president in the district of Bromberg . He was a real secret councilor.

During the German Revolution of 1848/49, Wengern was a deputy member of the Prussian National Assembly and a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly . In this he belonged to the Café Milani faction and the Casino faction . In 1850 he was a member of the Erfurt Union Parliament . In 1855 and 1856 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives .

See also

literature

  • Egbert Weiß : Corps students in the Paulskirche , in: Einst und Jetzt , special issue 1990, Munich 1990, p. 45.
  • Protocols of the Prussian Ministry of State Vol. 6 / II P. 726 Digitized
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Adeligen Häuser , Alter Adel und Briefadel 1928, page 706, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1928
  • Bernhard-Maria Rosenberg: The East Prussian MPs in Frankfurt 1848/49. Biographical contributions to the history of political life in East Prussia. Grote, Berlin / Cologne 1970, pages 162–170.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 140/37.
  2. ↑ Patrick Wagner: Farmers, Junkers and officials . local rule and participation in eastern Elbe in the 19th century. Wallstein-Verl., Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-946-5 , p. 209 ( excerpt from Google book search [accessed November 16, 2010]).
  3. ^ Bernhard Lindenblatt: Preussenland. History of East and West Prussia 1701-1945 , page 133, Verlag Arndt, 2001
  4. ↑ Jochen Lengemann: The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850 , 2000, p. 332.
personal data
SURNAME Wegnern, Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wegnern, Anton Wilhelm Pius Gustav von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and Member of Parliament in the Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Prussian Eylau
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1891
Place of death Berlin