Eduard Marcard

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Eduard Marcard (since 1888 by Marcard ) (born December 14, 1826 in Hanover , † December 17, 1892 in Berlin ) was a civil servant initially in the service of the Kingdom of Hanover and after 1866 in Prussian services. He was also a member of the Prussian House of Representatives .

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Eduard Marcard, son of a councilor, began studying law in 1848 after attending the Lyceum in his place of birth, Hanover, in Göttingen . In May 1848 he was one of the co-founders of the Hannovera fraternity . He passed the state examination in 1851 with distinction and became an auditor (trainee lawyer) in Osnabrück, but then switched to the administrative service of the Kingdom of Hanover.

He was married to Wilhelmine, nee Gosling; his son Karl von Marcard became a Prussian administrative officer and parliamentarian.

From 1857 Eduard Marcard was a government assessor in Aurich . In 1859 he was appointed advisor to the Ministry of the Interior in Hanover and in 1866 to the government council.

After the annexation of Hanover, Marcard was accepted into the Prussian civil service and transferred to the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests in 1867 . It was here that his remarkable ministerial career began. In 1868 he was promoted to the Secret Government Council and within a very short time afterwards to the Secret Upper Government Council. In 1875 he became a ministerial director with the title of Real Secret Higher Government Council. After all, from 1882 until his death, as Undersecretary of State, he was the highest official in this department.

Marcard, who was a veterinary advisor until 1874, made particular contributions in drafting the Prussian cattle disease law , which in 1884 formed the basis of the Reich cattle disease law . In 1884 he became chairman of the technical deputation for veterinary affairs . From 1876 he was president of the Landesökonomiekollegium . At times he also chaired the Central Moor Commission.

From 1877 he was a member of the Prussian State Council. In addition, he was representative of the Prussian plenipotentiary to the Federal Council in 1890. From 1879 to 1885 he represented the constituency of Lingen-Bentheim in the Prussian House of Representatives as a member of the Free Conservative Party .

Eduard Macard died just three days after his 66th birthday on December 17, 1892 in Berlin. He found his final resting place in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg near Berlin. The grave has not been preserved.

Honors

  • In 1884 Eduard Marcard received the title of Excellency and Real Privy Councilor.
  • On the occasion of its 150th anniversary, the Law Faculty of the University of Göttingen awarded him the title of Dr. jur. hc
  • In 1888 he was by Emperor Friedrich III. raised to the hereditary nobility.
  • After the Ems-Jade Canal was completed, a village founded there was named Marcardsmoor in 1890, as a result of which Eduard Marcard's meritorious work in the Central Moor Commission was recognized. The village was incorporated into the city of Wiesmoor (district of Aurich) in 1972 .
  • After his death in 1893 a veterinary association based in Prussia commissioned the sculptor Ernst Herter to make a bust of Marcard, which was placed in the former University of Veterinary Medicine in Berlin and is now owned by the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity Hannovera Göttingen, 1848–1998 , Düsseldorf 1998, page 3
  2. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry, Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 261 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 511-514.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 754.

literature

  • Prussian administration sheet. Weekly for administration and administrative justice in Prussia. Volume IX, No. 33 from May 12, 1888
  • Handbook for the German Empire to the year 1890. Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1890
  • Biographical handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives: 1867–1918. Edited by Bernhard Mann with the assistance of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne, Düsseldorf: Droste, 1988, p. 169 and 1460
  • Thomas Kühne, Handbook of Elections to the Prussian House of Representatives, Düsseldorf: Droste, 1994, pp. 511 ff. And 894
  • Dvorak, Helge: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft, Volume I: Politicians, Part 4: M – Q, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2002, p. 25 f.
  • Keune, Angelika: Scholar portraits of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin: Humboldt University, 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Marcard, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marcard, Eduard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian and Prussian civil servant and member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1892
Place of death Berlin