Ferdinand Wuthenow

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Signature as District Judge Wuthenow (1862)

Alexander Wilhelm Heinrich Ferdinand Wuthenow (born May 6, 1812 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † June 5, 1882 in Greifswald ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Casemate of the Silberberg fortress

Ferdinand Wuthenow was born as the son of the postal secretary Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Wuthenow (born July 4, 1790 in Kyritz ), who had participated in the wars of liberation in 1813/15, and his wife Henriette Sophie, nee. Blade born. The school education took place first in Aschersleben , Mühlhausen and Querfurt . From 1824 to 1831 he attended a grammar school in Erfurt . He studied in Halle from 1831 to 1833, and in Berlin in 1833 and 1834.

In June 1834 Wuthenow was arrested for participating in the Halle fraternity, he had become a member of the old Halle fraternity in 1831 during his studies . The death penalty was revised to thirty years of imprisonment . Since June 1835 he was imprisoned at Silberberg Fortress , where Fritz Reuter and Wilhelm Wolff were also temporarily imprisoned. In 1838 he was pardoned to ten years in prison. In September 1839 he attempted to escape, but it failed. In 1840 Wuthenow was released.

Gützkow 1843

On July 26, 1842, he applied for the advertised office of mayor of Gützkow near Greifswald . When Mayor Fabriz left office on December 3, 1842, Wuthenow took over the office temporarily.

Grave of the Wuthenow couple

On September 29, 1843 he married Alwine Wuthenow , b. Balthasar, with whom he was supposed to have 5 children. It was not until February 27, 1844 that the Prussian Ministry of the Interior was officially appointed mayor. In the revolution of 1848 he was deposed as mayor with the entire magistrate by an organized opposition to the citizenship, which demanded a reform of the city constitution, in particular the introduction of city regulations and state jurisdiction, and had to flee to Greifswald. On August 1, 1842, he signed as a judge at the Greifswald District Court.

Since June 1855 he was in contact with Fritz Reuter by letter. Reuter's wife Luise wrote about Wuthenow in 1863:

“Wuthenow, district judge from Greifswald, visited us one day - he wanted to see his poor wife - and we were delighted to be able to take him in, this real old friend, this tested one; how amiable the man is, how fresh despite his bitter fate! That was still a friend! "

Ferdinand Wuthenow was buried in the New Cemetery in Greifswald.

Awards

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 391-393.
  • Arnold Hückstädt : Fritz Reuter. Letters. Hinstorff, Rostock 2009/2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gützkow church book from 1843
  2. ↑ a b c Greifswald State Archives , Rep. 65c Stralsund - Gützkow District, Doc. 1946 - Ordered by Magistrate Volume 1 1818-1852
  3. ^ A b Heinrich Bandlow : The great year in Gützkow. In: Our Pommerland . XIII. Year, 1928, p. 360ff
  4. ^ Letter to Marie Peters dated July 27, 1863 in: Fritz Reuter Calendar for the year 1908 , Leipzig 1907, p. 42
personal data
SURNAME Wuthenow, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wuthenow, Alexander Wilhelm Heinrich Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1882
Place of death Greifswald