Georg Ludwig von Wedemeyer

Ludwig Georg von Wedemeyer (born September 6, 1781 in Hanover ; † November 25, 1867 in Schönrade , district of Friedeberg Nm. ) Was a German lawyer, landowner and politician.

Life

Von Wedemeyer studied law in Göttingen from 1799 to 1802 , where he was a member of the Lunaburgia Landsmannschaft. In 1802 he became an auditor at the judiciary in Hanover, in 1810 a tribunal judge in Einbeck . He took part in the wars against Napoleon in 1806 and 1813/14 and in 1814 became a captain in the 1st Hanoverian battalion of the Grubenhagen infantry regiment. He then left the judicial service and was the owner of the Langhagen estate in Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1815 to 1846 (until 1846). In 1836 he also acquired the Schönrade estate near Friedeberg in what was then Brandenburg.

Wedemeyer was a member of the pre-parliament and the fifties committee . From May 18, 1848 to March 29, 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly ( Café Milani , Casino ). He elected Friedrich Wilhelm IV as Emperor of the Germans.

Works (selection)

• What is advisable? . Berlin 1857 (twelve pages) ( e-copy ).
• On legislation and judicial reorganization . Second edition, Berlin 1857 ( e-copy ).
• On Fair Distribution of the Tax Burden , 1856.

literature

• Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical handbook of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and the political parties. Volume 8). Droste, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-7700-5193-9 , p. 351.
• Chronica Wedemeyeriana. Copy with additions and some translations, completed in early 1989 , undated, undated