August Overweg
August Overweg (born June 10, 1836 in Iserlohn ; † March 2, 1909 in Letmathe , today a district of Iserlohn) was a German politician.
Life
August Overweg was the son of the industrialist and politician Carl Overweg . He studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1856 he was reciprocated in the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg . From 1862 to 1877 he was district administrator of the Iserlohn district . From 1875 he also ran the regional cultural society for the Arnsberg administrative region on a voluntary basis . In 1878 Overweg worked as a consultant in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture in Berlin before he became district administrator of the Bochum district from 1879 to 1883 . He then returned to the Ministry of Agriculture as a lecturing council . After the reform of the provincial constitutions, the districts and independent cities formed a new body, the Provincial Association of the Province of Westphalia . The members of the provincial parliament were no longer determined by the estates, but by representatives of the districts and independent cities, often according to party-political orientation. Other organs of the provincial self-government were the provincial committee (government) and the function of the governor (head of government). Overweg was elected the first governor of the province of Westphalia in 1887 . At the same time he was a member of the state parliament for the Iserlohn district. He supported the self-government of the province of Westphalia and was one of the initiators in 1888 with the inventory of the architectural and art monuments in Westphalia. In 1899 Overweg was re-elected as governor for another twelve years, but had to give up the office in 1900 for health reasons.
Overweg sponsored the construction of a Protestant rectory and a Protestant church in Letmathe through donations.
Honors
On 22 February 1883 he was awarded the city of Gelsenkirchen its honorary citizen . In Iserlohn, Overwegstraße in the center of the Letmathe district is named after the influential family.
Fonts
- News about the Overweg family. Typescript , Berlin 1906
- Patrick Sensburg : The great lawyers of the Sauerland . 22 biographies of outstanding legal scholars. 1st edition. FW Becker, Arnsberg 2002, ISBN 978-3-930264-45-2 (276 pages).
Web links
- Literature by and about August Overweg in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 122/296.
- ^ Walter Kramer: 1875-1975. 100 years of history of the Protestant parish Letmathe . Iserlohn 1975, pp. 17, 20, 22
- ^ City of Gelsenkirchen: August Overweg , accessed on July 14, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Overweg, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iserlohn |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1909 |
| Place of death | Letmathe , now Iserlohn |