Carl Winterberg

Carl Winterberg (born January 19, 1812 in Korbach , † April 15, 1872 in Arolsen ) was a German politician and Waldeck head of government.

Winterberg was a son of the pastor Christian Winterberg (1770-1832) and his wife Luise nee Varnhagen. He married Emma Rhode (1816-1884) in Korbach, daughter of the Supreme Court Councilor August Rhode in Arolsen.

He attended the old state school in Korbach and then studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1828 . From 1835 to 1847 he was a lawyer in Korbach. From June 1847 to September 1847 he was procurator at the court in Korbach and then government secretary in Arolsen. As a liberal, he was entrusted with lectures in the Secret Cabinet from August 1848 after the March Revolution , in October 1848 as a government assessor and on June 6, 1849 as a councilor (which corresponds to a state minister in larger states) in the Wolrad Schumacher cabinet . In this role he was responsible for the departments of the Princely House, Foreign Affairs and Justice, Churches and Schools.

With the beginning of the reaction era, Wolrad Schumacher was dismissed on February 28, 1851 and Winterberg moved to the head of the government of the dual principality. He headed the government until his retirement on April 3, 1869. On June 29th, he was appointed State Councilor by Regent Emma and on March 3rd, 1853 by Prince Georg as a Privy Councilor and Government Councilor.

literature

• Ludwig Luckemeyer: Liberales Waldeck and Pyrmont and Waldeck-Frankenberg 1821–1981. 1984, pp. 79-80.