Conrad Wilhelm Delius (politician)

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Conrad Wilhelm Delius

Conrad Wilhelm Delius (born May 30, 1751 in Versmold , † February 18, 1834 in Herford ) was Mayor of Bielefeld and a member of the Kingdom of Westphalia .

Life

Delius came from the Ravensberg textile entrepreneur family Delius . His father, Daniel Conrad Delius (1697–1768) was mayor of Versmold, his mother Margareta Anna, née Heidsieck, was the daughter of a pastor and aunt of Florenz-Ludwig Heidsieck , the founder of the champagne house of the same name. Conrad Wilhelm was the youngest of thirteen children in the family. His first wife Wilhelmine Sophia Fucke (* 1746), daughter of a Bielefeld surgeon, died in 1773 after the birth of their first son Daniel Heinrich Delius , who later became President of the Prussian government. On July 23, 1777 he married his cousin Henriette Dorothee, née Heidsieck, in Buer . On May 30, 1797, he married his third wife Henriette, née Schulze, in Buer. He had fifteen children in total.

He was the leaseholder of the Reineberg office near Lübbecke . He was also a commissioner in Bielefeld, Minden and Herford. During the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia , he was a member of the Departmental Council of the Weser Department from 1808 to 1811 . From 1813 to 1818 he was a member of the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia in the group of landowners and initially represented the Weser Department and later the Fuldade Department . Between 1812 and 1817 he was also mayor of Bielefeld. His successor in this office was his nephew Ernst Friedrich Delius. In 1811 he was honored with the Order of the Westphalian Crown . In February 1825 he auctioned the Grapenstein estate near Lübbecke for 35,000 thalers and bequeathed it to his four daughters and his son Ludwig Georg Delius in December 1833 . In 1832 Delius acquired the Quernheim monastery area, which had been secularized by Prussia, and in 1834 transferred it to his son-in-law Wilhelm Bacmeister.

See also

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  • Jochen Lengemann , Biographical Handbook of the Imperial Estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Estates Assembly of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-458-16185-6 , page 134
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 104.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : Quarterly publication for coat of arms, seal and family history , Volume 27, Carl Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1899, pp. 107-108