Felix von Merveldt

Felix von Merveldt

Felix Friedrich Graf von Merveldt (born October 28, 1862 in Salzkotten , † October 21, 1926 in Münster ) was a German civil servant and politician ( DNVP ).

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Felix von Merveldt came from the Westphalian Uradels -Gender Merveldt from Münsterland. His brother was the painter Paul von Merveldt .

In his youth he attended high school in Münster. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Göttingen (1883–1884) and at the University of Leipzig (1886). After the first state examination, which he passed in Celle in 1886, Merveldt embarked on an administrative career. The second state examination followed in 1891.

After a brief activity as an unskilled worker for the district administrator of Lingen, Merveldt worked from December 1891 to July 1893 as assistant to the police chief and deputy police chief of Magdeburg . From July 1893 to May 1894, Merveldt initially served as provisional district administrator for the Recklinghausen district , followed by the final appointment as district administrator in May 1894. In 1895 he married. From 1897 to 1919 Merveldt was a member of the provincial parliament . As a district administrator, he helped found the company Elektrizitätswerk Westfalen AG , waterworks for the northern Westphalian coal district AG and the Mülheim waterworks.

Merveldt also made a living by setting up agricultural educational institutions and businesses, the public chemical investigation office, the police school and the district's first children's home.

On December 1, 1913, Merveldt was appointed district president of Munster, which he held until July 1922. When he resisted introducing secular schools in his administrative district, he was dismissed for disciplinary reasons. From August to the end of November 1914, in the initial phase of the First World War , Merveldt temporarily headed the German administration of the Russian part of Poland that came under German control during the initial phase of the war. In the further course of the war, Merveldt took on duties as state commissioner for nutrition issues for the provinces of Westphalia , Rhineland and Hesse-Nassau as well as chairman of the Westphalian cattle trade association, the provincial meat and fat agency and the provincial potato agency.

After the end of the war, Merveldt joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). In the Reichstag election of May 1924, he moved to the second Reichstag of the Weimar Republic as a member of the Reichstag election of his party . After his re-election in December 1924, he was a member of the German parliament until his death in October 1926. Merveldt's mandate was then exercised by Ewald Sauer until the end of the electoral term in May 1928 .

Merveldt was also a deputy member of the State Railway Council of Hanover and Commissioner of the Minister for Art, Science and Education and Chairman of the Examination Office for Economics at the Wilhelms University of Münster . From 1919 to 1920 Merveldt also gave lectures on economic issues at this university. After all, he was a deputy member of the Westphalian Provincial Committee for several years.

The Auguste-Victoria-Haus in Marl-Hüls and the Kreishaus am Herzogswall in Recklinghausen, which were built under his aegis as district administrator, are just as reminiscent of him today as the Merveldtstrasse in Marl and Recklinghausen.

Web links

• Felix von Merveldt in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biographical note (PDF file; 55 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BIORAB database.
2. ^ Conrad, Horst, Stand and Denomination. The Association of Catholic Nobles. Part 2, Westfälische Zeitschrift 159, 2009, p. 95.
3. ^ Finding aid for Merveldt in the district archive of Recklinghausen