Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell (around 1931)

Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell (born September 17, 1855 in Lehnin , Zauch-Belzig district ; † November 21, 1931 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German politician and from 1914 to 1917 Prussian Interior Minister .

Origin and education

His parents were Robert Karl Hermann von Loebell (1815-1905) and his wife Friederike Wilhelmine Rosalie von Thümen (born March 16, 1825). Friedrich Wilhelm was the fifth and youngest child. His father owned the manor Lehnin from 1846 to 1870 and lived on the site of the former Lehnin monastery . The father made it very important that his son attended the village school with the village children; he also had private lessons. In 1866 he switched to the knight academy in Dom Brandenburg , where he passed the Abitur .

Profession and political activity

After studying law in Strasbourg and Leipzig , he entered the Prussian administrative service. In 1885 Loebell became district administrator in the newly founded Neuhaus an der Oste district (today part of the Cuxhaven district ). From 1889 to 1900 he was district administrator in the Westhavelland district . Here he tried to develop the infrastructure in the interests of the economy, for example by building railway lines . He was the driving force behind the construction of the Brandenburg Urban Railway, which was used to network five railway lines oriented radially towards Berlin . In his honor, a locomotive was also named "Landrat von Loebell", which pulled the inaugural train on the line on March 25, 1904. From 1901 to 1912 he was chairman and from 1919 to 1929 second member of the board of this railway company.

In 1898, von Loebell was elected to the Reichstag as a member of the constituency of Brandenburg ad Havel-Westhavelland . In 1900 he became general director of the state fire law firm in Brandenburg . In 1904 he moved to the Reich Chancellery as a lecturer and in 1907 became Undersecretary of State under Reich Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow . From 1909 he was President of the Province of Brandenburg before retiring to his manor in Brenken in 1910. From 1911 until his appointment to the Prussian government in May 1914, he was a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank . From 1914 to 1917 von Loebell was the Prussian Minister of the Interior and was responsible for organizing the administration during this war. It was part of the truce policy in the German Reich during the First World War that Interior Minister von Loebell issued a decree on January 6, 1915, according to which the previous practice of viewing social democrats as enemies of the state and therefore not taking them into the public service is no longer exercised . As a result of disputes in the government and with the Kaiser, von Loebell resigned from his office in 1917. From 1917 to January 1919 he was again President of the Province of Brandenburg until he resigned in the wake of the revolutionary events. Since 1919, Loebell, as chairman of the Reich Citizens Council , tried repeatedly to organize a bourgeois collection policy under conservative auspices. This was particularly successful in the presidential election in 1925 and in the referendum on the expropriation of the princes in 1926.

Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin; Loebell's hereditary burial site, based on a design by Hans Dammann

Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell lived in the last years of his life in the cathedral district of Brandenburg an der Havel , where he also died. His grave is in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin.

family

He married Margarethe Friederike Pauline von Flottwell on November 27, 1884 in Danzig (born January 16, 1862). The couple had several children:

  • Hans Joachim Hermann Robert Friedrich Wilhelm (born August 29, 1885)
  • Siegfried Arthur Maximilian (born January 19, 1887)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Adalbert (born August 4, 1888)
  • Dietrich Ostwand Eugen (born December 17, 1889)
  • Kurt Ulrich Walter Karl Max (born September 16, 1892)

After the death of his first wife, he married her niece Frida von Flottwell (1895–1967) in Potsdam on August 24, 1920 . With her he had another daughter:

  • Lilla Christa Clara (born December 26, 1921)

Fonts (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Menzel: Brandenburg city railway. For the 100th anniversary of the Treuenbrietzen – Neustadt (Dosse) railway line. Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-933254-44-2 , p. 15
  2. ↑ Handbook of the Prussian Nobility, Volume 2, 1893, p.234
  3. ^ Family tree Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell on www.einegrossefamilie.de
personal data
SURNAME Loebell, Friedrich Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loebell, Friedrich Wilhelm Georg von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Lehnin
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1931
Place of death Brandenburg on the Havel