Carl von Ewald

Christian Wilhelm Karl Ewald , von Ewald since 1912 , (born June 18, 1852 in Rehbach , † September 2, 1932 in Darmstadt ) was Minister of State of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and a German judge .

Life

After attending grammar school in Weimar , he studied law and camera science in Leipzig, Göttingen and Gießen. There he became a member of Wingolf . In 1874 he passed the first and in 1877 the second exam. In 1879 he became a district attorney in Mainz. In 1882 he was appointed magistrate in Worms. In 1884 he was transferred to Darmstadt and in 1885 to Mainz. In 1893 he was promoted to first public prosecutor. In 1898 he came to the Imperial Court . He was active in the 1st Criminal Senate. In 1905 he resigned from the Reichsgericht and became Hessian Minister of Justice and Minister of the Grand Ducal House. In 1906 he was also the Hessian Minister of State (Prime Minister). In 1907 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Giessen . Hesse's proposal in the Federal Council went back to him that only the workers should be represented in the Chamber of Labor. Furthermore, several basic laws were created under his government, such as the city and rural community regulations and the law on community levies. He was raised to the Hessian nobility on December 23, 1912.

Ewald's government was marked by the delayed reform of the Hessian electoral law. In the amendment to the electoral law of 1911, voters from the age of 50 received an additional vote. Before the constitutional committee of the second chamber of the Darmstadt state parliament , Ewald declared on October 26, 1917 that he wanted to change the electoral law based on the Prussian model and thus propose equal voting rights without multiple votes and proportional representation for constituencies with several members of the parliament. The deliberations were transferred to a 14-member constitutional committee for processing. A year later, on October 26, 1918, Ewald declared “the willingness of the Grand Duke and government to discuss and approve the required reforms as soon as possible,” but this no longer stopped the revolution. Shortly afterwards Ewald resigned and withdrew from politics.

family

His great-grandfather was Johann Ludwig Ewald (1747-1822) was a Reformed theologian and friend of Goethe's youth . In 1886 Ewald married Maria Valckenberg (1863–1945), a daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm Valckenberg (1825–1887), owner of the P. J. Valckenberg wine shop .

literature

• "Ewald, Christian Wilhelm Carl von". Hessian biography. (As of December 2, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Friedrich Knöpp:  Ewald, Christian Wilhelm Carl von (since 1912). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 694 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Kosch : Biographical State Handbook. Lexicon of politics, press and journalism. Volume 1 . Bern-Munich 1959, p. 304.

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf. Year 2007. p. 40.