Hermann Wever
Hermann Wever (born December 27, 1853 in Kleve , † June 1, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer in the Prussian civil service, who most recently worked as Undersecretary of State in the Prussian Ministry of Culture .
Life
Hermann Wever was the fourth of six sons of the Prussian attorney general Carl Georg Wever and his wife Catharina born. Tavenraat.
Hermann Wever studied after his school attendance law , interrupted the study in 1874 to the Emperor Franz Grenadier Guards Regiment. 2 in Berlin his military service as a one-year volunteer abzuleisten. After being transferred to the Landwehr , he left there in 1893 as captain of the reserve. He completed his legal studies in 1876 with the legal trainee exam. The assessor exam followed in 1881 .
Wever initially worked in the Prussian Ministry of Justice in Berlin and moved to the Prussian Ministry of Education in 1884 . In 1887 he joined the provincial college of the Rhine Province in Koblenz as a legal counsel . Promoted to the Government Council in 1888, he returned to the Prussian Ministry of Education in 1889, where he was promoted to the Secret Government Council and Lecturing Council in 1890 and to the Secret Upper Government Council in 1893. On July 1, 1900, Wever was appointed Undersecretary of State (today's title State Secretary ), skipping the title of Ministerial Director , and headed the spiritual department of the Ministry of Culture and was the right hand of the three ministers Conrad von Studt , Ludwig Holle and August von Trott zu Solz . During this time, Friedrich Althoff reported to him , who with his "System Althoff" made a significant contribution to the performance and good reputation of the Prussian universities. In 1907 Hermann Wever took over the higher education system in the Ministry of Education as successor to Althoff. In 1908 he received the character of Real Privy Councilor with the predicate of excellence. In 1910 he retired.
In June 1891 Hermann Wever married Amanda von Mühlenfels, the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel von Mühlenfels and his wife Maria geb. Hate. His grave is in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg.
Memberships and honors
- In 1906 Hermann Wever was awarded the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, Second Class with Oak Leaves.
- A year later, the University of Greifswald awarded him an honorary medical doctorate (Dr. med. Hc).
- Hermann Wever was an honorary member of the Wever Family Association
literature
- Walther Wever: History of the Wever family. Berlin 1898.
- Eberhard Winkhaus: We come from the family of farmers and blacksmiths. Genealogy of a southern clan group and the industrial pioneers belonging to it. Starke, Görlitz 1932.
- Walther Wever: Family Chronicle. Volume 1. 4th edition, Barsinghausen 2007.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wever, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, Undersecretary of State in the Prussian Ministry of Culture |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kleve |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1911 |
| Place of death | Berlin |