Friedrich Willich (politician)

Wilhelm Friedrich Willich (born August 2, 1846 in Seckbach , † November 29, 1917 in Birkenfeld (Nahe) ) was an Oldenburg government official and from 1909 to 1917 the district president in the Principality of Birkenfeld .

Life

Willich originally came from a Pomeranian pastor's family. His great-grandfather (presumably Michael Lorentz Willig) was the mayor of Göttingen and his grandfather was vice-rector in Hanau . Willich's father was the Seckbacher pastor Philipp Carl Willich (1806-1882), who in 1851 had been appointed as seminar director (later secret school council ) at the Evangelical teachers seminar in Oldenburg . Willich grew up in Oldenburg and attended the old grammar school there . He then studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen .

From 1873 he worked as a secretary and assistant judge at the Varel Supreme Court . In 1874 he came to Vechta as a court assessor , where he was magistrate in 1878 and magistrate in 1883. In 1884 he worked as Amtshauptmann the chief administrative officer of the Office Brake . In 1887 he was appointed lecturing council in the State Ministry of the Grand Duchy, where he was responsible for the departments of justice and the churches and schools. He was also given the title of Ministerial Councilor . In 1893 Willich was appointed to the secret ministerial councilor and in 1899 to the secret senior government councilor. After the dissolution of the Oldenburg government under State Minister Günther Jansen , Willich took over the chairmanship of the State Ministry on August 20, 1900, in which he acted as Minister of the Interior, the Grand Ducal House and Foreign Affairs. Shortly thereafter, he was also appointed representative of the Oldenburg Federal Council. As Minister of State, Willich enforced the increase in the civil list for Grand Duke Friedrich August , which his predecessor had refused to do . However, when he did not want to appoint the Catholic Franz Driver as regional president of the Principality of Lübeck , an Oldenburg exclave, he was put on hold after sharp attacks on August 17, 1908 and transferred to the Principality of Birkenfeld on May 1, 1909 as regional president. After his sudden death in autumn 1917, Hermann Pralle became his temporary successor in office.

Willich had been a member of the Literary Society in Oldenburg since 1898 .

family

Willich married Christine Wilhelmine Antonie geb. Berding (1854–1937), the daughter of a lawyer in Vechta. He had at least three children with her. His brother Wilhelm Albert Willich (* 1845) was president of the regional court in Ellwangen. A brother of his great-grandfather was ennobled in 1786, a brother of his grandfather in 1810.

literature

• Harald Schnieckel: Willich, Wilhelm Friedrich. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 799 ( online ).