Eduard Windthorst

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Eduard Windthorst

Eduard Windthorst (born August 25, 1834 in Halle (Westphalia) , † November 14, 1914 in Hamm ) was a left-liberal politician, lawyer at the Hamm Higher Regional Court and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Eduard Windthorst was a son of Eduard Windthorst (1809–1880) and grew up in Münster and consciously experienced the revolution of 1848/49 . After graduating from the High School Paulinum in Münster, he studied in Bonn and Berlin law . From 1866 to 1873 Windthorst was district judge in Werne .

In protest against the dogma of infallibility , Windthorst joined the Old Catholics . As an avowed left-wing liberal, he was a member of the House of Representatives of the German Reichstag from 1871 to 1873 for the constituency of Berlin 3 and the Progress Party . In the autumn of 1872 he was elected to the Prussian state parliament for Bochum . From 1873 to 1879 he represented Bielefeld , where he worked first as a district judge until 1884 and later as a district judge. However, he gave up this position to become a lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Hamm . From 1886 to 1914 Windthorst was head of the city council in Hamm.

In his will, Windthorst decreed that the city could buy his house at Südstrasse 42 cheaply after his death, provided it found a suitable urban purpose. The museum association and the city ​​council of Hamm acquired the building and used it for the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm . In 1958 the Hamm Municipal Music School moved into the building.

Windthorst was buried in the Ostenfriedhof in Hamm . He was a brother of Karl Windthorst and a great-nephew of Ludwig Windthorst .

Works

  • Life experiences of an idealist , Bonn 1912.

Honors

In 1907 the city of Hamm granted Eduard Windthorst honorary citizenship .

literature

  • Alfred Bruns (ed.); Josef Häming (compilation): The members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, volume 2)
  • Bernhard Mann: Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives (1867-1918). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, volume 3)
  • Wilhelm Ribhegge: Prussia in the West. Struggle for parliamentarism in Rhineland and Westphalia 1789-1947 , Münster 2008, esp. P. 219ff. and p. 237.
  • Municipal music school Hamm. Three decades of cultural achievement , Hamm 1972 (= facts and reports 5), p. 5.
  • Herbert Zink: The Municipal Gustav Lübcke Museum in Hamm , Hamm 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ See W. Schäfer, Small chest. Munich 1941. p. 283.
personal data
SURNAME Windthorst, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Windthorst, Eduard jun.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (DFP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Westphalia)
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1914
Place of death Hamm