Georg Wilhelm von Willich

Georg Wilhelm von Willich (* July 8, 1718 in Celle ; † March 5, 1792 ibid) was Vice-President of the Higher Appeal Court in Celle . He was the father-in-law of Albrecht Daniel Thaer .

Life

He came from the Willich family in Brandenburg and was the son of the Celle rural physician Friedrich Wilhelm Willich (1683–?) And Gertrud Elisabeth von Bilderbeck . Willich was raised to the imperial nobility on March 21, 1765 in Vienna , and on July 1, 1766, he also received Brunswick-Lüneburg recognition of his nobility .

Willich studied law at the University of Göttingen in 1738 and in that year joined the “ German Society ” (also: “Göttingen Society”), which was founded there. He began his professional career as a secretary at the royal justice office in his hometown, where he is still mentioned in 1748 as a member of the "German Society". He then became the country stands the county Hoya to their counsel and legal adviser to the Hoyaschen landscape in Nienburg / Weser ordered. In this function later accompanied the entire negotiations between the Calenberger and the Hoyaschen landscape as well as the electoral government in Hanover regarding the cooperation in fire insurance. In 1759 he was appointed to the electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg Higher Appeal Council and in 1786 was promoted to second vice-president of the Higher Appeal Court. He held this office until 1791.

Willich married Dorothea Elisabeth Dietrichs . Both daughter Philippine got engaged in 1785 to the city ​​physician and court physician Albrecht Thaer (1752-1828) after he had cured her of a serious illness, and married him in 1786. The daughter Henriette (1755-1782) married the lawyer Georg Ernst von Rüling and died early of consumption. After her death, she became known for her grave, the " Open Grave " in the Hanoverian garden cemetery.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Simons: Albrecht Thaer; based on official and private documents from a great time , page 3, Verlag Paul Parey, 1929 ( excerpt )
2. ^ Entry in genealogy.net
3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, page 224, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISBN 3-7980-0837-X
4. ↑ Willich , No. 952 in: Christian Friedrich August von Meding : Nachrichten von adelichen Wapen , Volume 3 (1791), Page 752 ( digitized version )
5. ^ Heinrich Kraeger : Der Byronsche hero type , page 24, Verlag C. Haushalter, Munich 1898
6. ^ Johann Christoph Strodtmann, Gabriel Wilhelm Goetten, Ernst Ludwig Rathlef: Contributions to the historie der Gelahrheit , 1748, page 262 ( digitized version )
7. ↑ A "fruitful and profitable work" - the establishment of the Calenberger Brand-AssekurationsSozietät . In: Festschrift on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the fire fund for the counties Hoya and Diepholz , page 14 and 15 (Willich coat of arms) ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 2.36 MB) 
8. ^ Annals of the Braunschweig-Lüneburgischen Churlande , Volume 6, Page 595, Hanover 1792 ( digital copy )
9. ^ Theodor Fontane : Walks through the Mark Brandenburg , Volume 2 (1863), page 229 ( digitized version )
10. ^ Wilhelm Körte: Albrecht Thaer. His life and work , page 50, Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1839 ( digitized version )
11. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : Rüling, Henriette von In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 303.