Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden (statistician)

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden

Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Ludwig Freiherr von Reden (pseudonym Friedrich Wiemund ) (born February 11, 1802 at Wendlinghausen Castle ( Lippe ), † December 12, 1857 in Vienna ) was a German statistician and politician.

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden was a son of the Hanoverian Lieutenant Colonel Klaus von Reden (1774-1840) and his wife Philippine Auguste Amalie, née. of etiquette . He attended schools in Lemgo and Detmold and studied law and camera science in Göttingen . In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Lunaburgia. There he obtained his doctorate in 1823. iur. In 1824 Reden joined the Hanoverian civil service . There it rose to the position of assistant in the Ministry of Commerce until 1831. Since 1832 Reden belonged to the first chamber of the Hanoverian assembly of estates. A year later he was the deputy general secretary and editor of the public notices of the chamber negotiations.

family

He married in Stettin in 1841 Helene Loziczky de Baya (born August 17, 1815, † January 23, 1897). The couple had two sons and a daughter:

  • Friedrich Johann (* June 22, 1842; † March 14, 1889), Herr auf Esbeck, author ⚭ Freiin Karola Döry von Jobahaza (* May 15, 1842; † September 21, 1925)
  • Alexander Franz Friedrich Wilhelm Karl (* August 15, 1845 - † August 5, 1909) from 1894 Austrian baron kk Vice-President of the Lieutenancy for Tyrol and Vorarlberg ⚭ 1872 Emelie Wlassack (* April 13, 1854)
  • Helene Katharina Franziska Anna Klothilde (born April 11, 1849 - † 1917) ⚭ Feodor Tilgner († November 8, 1882) Prussian rail traffic controller

politics

In 1833, Reden applied to parliament to start negotiations on Hanover's accession to the German Customs Union . A year later he was one of the co-founders of the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover . Until 1840 he was the general secretary of this organization. In protest against the repeal of the constitution in 1837, Reden resigned from civil service. In the following years he worked as a writer and traveled through Europe. Between 1841 and 1843 he was a special director, therefore a senior employee, of the Berlin-Stettiner railway company. In 1843 Reden joined the Prussian Foreign Ministry as a consultant for industrial and commercial matters. He was one of the organizers of the German Trade Exhibition of 1844 in Berlin . In 1846 Reden was a co-founder of the Association for German Statistics and was the editor of the Association's Gazette.

After the start of the revolution of 1848 , Reden was elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly. There he was a member of the Westendhall parliamentary group . He was u. a. Member of the Economic Committee. Speeches was also the rapporteur for the German trade legislation in the plenary of parliament. During this time he was temporarily a member of the second chamber of the Hanoverian parliament. After Reden campaigned for the adoption of the Paulskirche constitution even after the start of the counter-revolution in Prussia , he was initially put on waiting as an official .

Grave of Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden in the Sankt Marxer Friedhof in Vienna

Since then Reden has been working as a freelance author and has lived in Vienna since 1854. There he took part in the international congress for statistics shortly before his death in 1857. He is considered to be a pioneer in statistics as a whole and in particular in financial statistics. The focus of his publications was on economic statistics and, in particular, railway statistics. In 1856 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Like his grandfather Adolph Freiherr Knigge , Reden was a member of the Freemasons Association .

In 1955 the Redengasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.

Fonts (incomplete)

  • 1829: Novellas / by Friedrich Wimund , Zerbst: Kummer, 1829
    • Microfiche edition of Edition Corvey : Wildberg: Belser Wissenschaftlicher Dienst, 1989–1990, ISBN 3-628-40927-6
  • Adolf Freiherr von Knigge, Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden, Georg Osterwald: The trip to Braunschweig , Hanover: Hahn 1839
    • 7th edition, ed. by the grandson of the author [facsimile reprint of the edition], in the series Gabe der Bremer Bibliophilen Gesellschaft , Volume 6, (Printed by: Bremen: Engelke) 1929
  • 1839: Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden: The Kingdom of Hanover described statistically, initially in relation to agriculture , trade and commerce ; 2 volumes:
    • Second division. Conditions of traffic in the kingdom of Hanover and the neighboring states; Science and Art , Hanover in the publishing house of the Hahn'schen Hofbuchhandlung , 1839, p. 477; online through google books
  • in the series The railways in Europe and America. Statistical-historical representation of its origin, its relationship to the state authority, as well as its administrative and operational facilities (reprints of the Berlin, Posen and Bromberg edition: Mittler, 1846) Frankfurt / Main: Keip, 1986
    • 1843: Section 1 (in Gothic script , also contains Section 2, Lfg. 1. (The Austrian Railways), Berlin; Posen; Bromberg: Mittler, 1843)
    • 1846: Section 2., Series 1., Suppl. - 1. The Austrian Railways first continuation
    • Sec. 2., Lfg. 3., Suppl. - 3, (In Fraktur. - Ent. Also [including]: Sec. 2. Lfg. 4. Suppl. 4. Of the railways of the Duchies of Hesse-Darmstadt and Mecklenburg, des Electorate of Hesse, the duchies of Braunschweig, Nassau and Schleswig-Holstein, as well as the first continuation in the areas of the free cities of Frankfurt, Hamburg and Lübeck. Section 2, continuation 5, suppl. 5. The Hanoverian, Bavarian and railways on the Areas of the free city of Bremen first continuation)
    • Section 2., Line 2. (The Prussian Railways)
    • Section 2., letter 3. (The Württemberg, Baden and the royal and ducal Saxon railways, also contains: Section 2, letter 4. (The railways of the Grand Duchies of Hesse-Darmstadt and Mecklenburg, Nassau and Schleswig -Holstein, as in the areas of the free cities of Frankfurt, Hamburg and Lübeck). Section 2, Lfg. 5 (The railways in the area of ​​the free city of Bremen))
  • 1844: General comparative commercial and industrial geography and statistics. A handbook for merchants, manufacturers and statesmen, also the basis for public lectures in commercial training institutions, as well as for trade-political and economic discussions , 2 volumes, Berlin: Enslin, 1844
    • as microfiche and reprint on demand: Ann Arbor; London: University Microfilms International, 1980
  • 1846: Memorandum on the Austrian trade exhibition in Vienna in 1845, its relationship to the industry of the German Customs Union and mutual trade relations , Berlin: Schroeder, 1846
  • from 1847: Journal of the Association for German Statistics , edited with the collaboration of several employees. by Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden, Association for German Statistics, Berlin: Schneider [Numbers 1.1847 - 2.1848; so that publication is discontinued]
  • 1853/54: Acquisition and traffic statistics of the royal state of Prussia. In comparative representation , Darmstadt: Jonghaus, 1853 (4 parts)
    • Facsimile: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: University Microfilms International, 1981
  • 1856: The states in the La Plata river basin and their importance for Europe. (Article in Mittheilungen from Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt about important new investigations in the total area of ​​geography, Volume 2), Gotha: Justus Perthes , 1856
  • 1856: Turkey and Greece in their ability to develop: a historical-statistical sketch , Frankfurt am Main: Völcker, 1856

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ some sources name 1804 as the year of birth
  2. ↑ Döry du Jobahaza
  3. ^ Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann : The Politics of Sociability: Freemasonry and German Civil Society, 1840-1918 . University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-11573-0 , p. 314 ( [1] ).
personal data
SURNAME Speeches, Friedrich Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speeches, Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Ludwig Freiherr von; Wiemund, Friedrich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Statisticians and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Wendlinghausen Castle , Lippe
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1857
Place of death Vienna