Ernst von Weyrauch

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Ernst Karl Georg Valentin Weyrauch, from 1888 von Weyrauch (born August 5, 1832 in Neukirchen , † February 10, 1905 in Marburg ) was an initially Kurhessian and later Prussian civil servant and a conservative German politician.

Life

Ernst Weyrauch studied law in Marburg and Berlin . During his studies in 1851 he became a member of the old Marburg fraternity Franconia . He then entered the Hessian judicial service, but soon switched to administrative service. In 1862 he was an assessor at the District Office in Marburg. A year later he was an "unskilled worker" (a kind of assistant ) in the Ministry of the Interior. In 1865 Weyrauch was appointed Secretary General of the State Ministry of the State of Hesse. He was also a member of the Secret Civil Cabinet. In 1866 Weyrauch was appointed Legation Councilor and Lecturing Council in the Foreign Ministry and in the Electoral House Ministry. In this capacity he advocated rapprochement with Prussia. At the time of the occupation of the electorate by Prussia in 1866, Weyrauch withdrew.

After the annexation was completed, he entered the Prussian civil service. In 1868 he became district administrator of the Kassel district . In 1881 he became president of the consistory in Kassel. As such, he was responsible for the unification of the three Protestant church communities of the Evangelical Church in Hessen-Kassel into a confederation. From 1883 he headed the United Consistory in Kassel.

Politically, he had already participated in the founding of the German Conservative Party in 1876 . For this party he sat between 1879 and 1882 in the Prussian House of Representatives . He was a member of the Reichstag from 1887 to 1891.

In 1891 Weyrauch was appointed Undersecretary of State in the Prussian Ministry of Culture.

In 1888 Weyrauch was raised to the Prussian nobility. He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Marburg in 1889 and that of the University of Königsberg in 1894 .

Weyrauch was the son of Rector Kaspar Weyrauch and his wife Karolin, born von und zu Löwenstein; he was married to Sophie, née von Trott zu Solz.

Individual evidence

  1. Bernhard Mann (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. 415 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)

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