August Weber (politician, 1829)

August Wilhelm Weber (born January 31, 1829 in Darmstadt ; † October 11, 1900 there ) was a German politician and finance minister of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

August Weber

family

August Weber was initially Protestant, but then converted to Catholicism. He married Antonia Emmerling (1833–1930), the daughter of member of the state parliament Georg Ludwig August Emmerling (1797–1867) and his wife Luise nee Siebert. His son August Karl Weber (1859-1940) was also a high official in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

Life

August Wilhelm Weber studied law and became a city judge. During his studies in 1846 he became a member of the Allemannia Gießen fraternity . In 1875 he joined the Grand Ducal Interior and Justice Ministry as a ministerial advisor . In 1884 Grand Duke Ludwig III appointed him . as head of the Ministry of Finance (initially with the title of President of the Ministry of Finance and from 1890 with that of Finance Minister). In 1898 he resigned as minister and went into retirement.

literature

• Eckhart G. Franz : Hessen-Darmstadt 1820–1935. In: Klaus Schwabe (Ed.): The governments of the German medium and small states. 1815–1933 (= German leadership classes in modern times. Volume 14 = Büdinger research on social history. Volume 18). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1983, ISBN 3-7646-1830-2 , p. 303.

Web links

• Weber, August Wilhelm. Hessian biography. (As of March 11, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, L. Allemannia. # 156.