Bernhard Wuermeling (politician, 1854)

Bernhard Wuermeling family grave in the Münster Central Cemetery.

Bernhard Wuermeling (born October 15, 1854 in Schwetz an der Weichsel , † August 29, 1937 in Münster ) was a German civil servant and politician ( center ). In addition to his administrative career in various ministries, he was involved in social policy at the municipal level in Münster and in association politics, among other things, in the German Caritas Association .

Life

Education and administrative career

Bernhard Wuermeling was the son of the lawyer and parliamentarian Bernhard Wuermeling . He attended high schools in Kulm , Posen and Münster until 1872 . He then studied law in Leipzig , Tübingen , Heidelberg , Bonn and Breslau . Since 1873 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Guestfalia Tübingen ; later he became a member of the VKDSt Saxonia Münster . As a trainee lawyer he went to Greifswald . From 1877 to 1879 he worked at the Münster District Court and finally did his doctorate in Göttingen . From 1880 he worked as a court assessor in Essen , Duisburg , Wiesbaden and Münster. In 1884 he became a lawyer at the Münster Regional Court . In 1897 he went to the Wiesbaden district court as a lawyer .

In 1898 Wuermeling became a member of the government at the Reich Insurance Office in Berlin . In 1901 he moved to the Reich Office of the Interior as a Privy Councilor , where he was a consultant for miners' associations , profit sharing for workers, liability law , rural workers and usury legislation . In 1917 he was promoted to ministerial director. In 1918 he became a ministerial director in the Reich Economics Office and then in the Reich Labor Office . From 1919 to 1922 he served as President of the Prussian Province of Westphalia .

Party and socio-political engagement

Bernhard Wuermeling belonged to the center. From 1886 to 1893 he sat for the constituency 3 Münster in the Prussian House of Representatives and from 1910 to 1918 for the constituency 4 Minden . In 1889 he became a city councilor in Münster and served as second mayor of Münster from 1889 to 1896 . As chairman of the poor committee, he supervised the Münster welfare institutions. As 2nd mayor, Wuermeling set up 15 urban poor districts and initiated a joint stock company to finance a construction program for small apartments for workers.

Wuermeling was one of the founders of the Caritas Association for Catholic Germany (DCV) in 1897 and co-founded the Caritas Association in Berlin in 1901 . From 1901 to 1906 he was second and from 1907 to 1916 first chairman of this association. In 1913 he became a member of the central board of the DCV and was its deputy chairman from 1917 to 1920. In 1920 he was made an honorary member of the DCV. From 1921 to 1934 he was also a member of the central board of the DCV and was also its first deputy chairman from 1924 to 1931. Wuermeling was also involved in the Vinzenzverein . From 1901 he was chairman of the administrative board and from 1907 to 1912 chairman of the senior administrative council of the Vinzenzverein in Berlin. He was also a member of the Boniface Society .

His son Franz-Josef Wuermeling was also a politician.

literature

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 177 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Complete directory of CV 1925, Vienna 1925, p. 530.