George William of Simpson

George William von Simpson (born June 14, 1820 in Plicken , Gumbinnen district ; † September 13, 1886 at Gut Georgenburg near Insterburg ) was a German manor owner and member of the Reichstag .

Simpson was the son of Wilhelm Simpson the Elder. Ä. (1788-1858). He came from a merchant family in Memel , had acquired Gut Georgenburg in 1828, had been a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Prussia and was raised to the nobility in 1840 as William von Simpson.

Simpson attended high school in Tilsit and the university in Berlin . By traveling to Belgium, France and England he deepened his agricultural knowledge, especially in horse breeding , which he used on his manor in Georgenburg. He was chairman of the board of directors of the Tilsit-Insterburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, member of the board of directors of the East Prussian Southern Railway Company. Member of the board of directors of the Preußische Boden-Kredit-Aktien-Gesellschaft, member of the representative committee of the Union- Klub, the large court of arbitration for racing matters. During the war against France he was involved in voluntary nursing.

Georgenburg Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Grave of George W. von Simpson in Georgenburg (2013)

From 1876 Simpson was a member of the Prussian manor house . From 1867 to 1874 and from 1878 to 1881 he was a member first of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and then of the German Reichstag for the Conservative Party for the Reichstag constituency of Gumbinnen 6th district .

Simpson was buried in Georgenburg (today in Kaliningrad Oblast ). In the former German local cemetery there is still (or again) his grave monument (2012), with traces of bullet holes.

literature

Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 (with picture).
Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 9, Saur, Munich et al. 1998.

Web links

Historical-Political Yearbook from 1880.
von Simpson-Georgenburg, George William in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Georg William von Simpson . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 308, short biography p. 469-470.
^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 11; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag . Publishing house Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 7.

personal data
SURNAME	Simpson, George William of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German manor owner and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	June 14, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Peck
DATE OF DEATH	September 13, 1886
Place of death	Gut Georgenburg near Insterburg

[1] Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 308, short biography p. 469-470.

[2] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 11; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag . Publishing house Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 7.