Georg von Viebahn (statistician)

Johann Georg Wilhelm von Viebahn (born October 10, 1802 in Soest , † August 28, 1871 in Opole ) was a Prussian civil servant and statistician .

Life

From 1820 Viebahn studied law in Heidelberg and at other universities. During his studies he joined a Heidelberg fraternity in 1821/22 . Viebahn was initially an auscultator in the Prussian civil service, trainee lawyer in 1827, government assessor in 1829, government councilor in Düsseldorf in 1831 , secret upper finance councilor in Berlin in 1841 and regional president of Upper Silesia in Opole in 1858 . In 1844, together with Friedrich von Diergardt, he founded the Centralverein for the welfare of the working classes . He made official reports on the world exhibitions in London in 1851 and Paris in 1855 , which he attended as the main representative of the Customs Union .

In the first and second electoral periods (1849 to 1850) he was a member of the second Prussian chamber for the constituency of Minden 3. In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

He died of typhus at the age of 68 .

family

He married Johanna Charlotte Auguste Luise Bitter on October 1, 1832 in Berlin (* August 3, 1815, † January 12, 1897). The couple had several children:

• Eduard (born August 22, 1833), secret councilor and curator of the University of Münster
• Helene Auguste Frederike Sophie (* November 2, 1835 - December 31, 1905) ⚭ 1869 Gustav Gottfried Keil (* May 20, 1836 - January 6, 1894), Prussian district administrator
• Karl Ernst Ludwig Lucian Rudolf (* September 21, 1838; † September 30, 1928), General ⚭ 1884 Luise Pauline Bertha von dem Borne (* March 14, 1860)
• Friedrich Karl Hermann Georg (born November 15, 1840 - † December 15, 1915), lieutenant general and evangelist

⚭ 1872 Christine Ankersmit (born January 13, 1847; † February 3, 1884)

⚭ 1887 Marie Wilhelmine Frederike Ankersmit (born February 15, 1848)

• Hermann Conrad Clemens Ferdinand (* October 4, 1847 - October 16, 1919), Lieutenant General ⚭ 1884 Luise Elisabeth Henriette von Viebahn (* April 7, 1864)

Works

• Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1836 ( online at Google Books).
• Location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg, sorted according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841. Digitized
• English industry, its historical development, present headquarters, and economic results. Statistical treatise, presented to the scientific association in Berlin on March 6, 1852. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1852 ( online at Google Books).
• (with Schubarth :) Official report on the general Paris exhibition of products from agriculture, industry and fine art in 1855. Decker, Berlin 1856 ( online at Google Books).
• Statistics of the unified customs and northern Germany. 3 volumes. Reimer, Berlin 1858-68 (online at Google Books: Vol. 1 , Vol. 2 , Vol. 3 ).

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 317-318.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 131-133.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1909. Third year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1908, p. 850.