Hugo Wendorff

Hugo Wendorff (around 1912)

Hugo Wendorff (born December 16, 1864 in Stralsund , † April 25, 1945 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ; full name: Hugo Karl Gustav Wendorff ) was a German farmer , landowner and politician ( FVP , DDP , DStP).

Life and work

Hugo Wendorff was born in Stralsund on December 16, 1864 as the son of the district court president and landowner Friedrich Wendorff . After attending the Stralsund high school, the Wriezen secondary school and graduating from the Greifswald secondary school in 1883 , he first completed an agricultural apprenticeship. He worked as an agricultural civil servant in 1885/1886 and studied agriculture and economics at the University of Halle and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1886 to 1890 . In 1890 he was at the University of Halle on the basis of his dissertation Two centuries of agricultural development on three Count Stolberg-Wernigerode domains to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1890 to 1892 he worked again as an agricultural official.

From 1892 to 1907, Wendorff was the tenant of his father's Toitz estate near Nossendorf , which then became his property. In 1917 he sold the estate and then devoted himself exclusively to his political activities. In 1926 he became a member of the board of the community of local electricity companies in Berlin . Hugo Wendorff committed suicide in Berlin light field on April 25, 1945 suicide .

Hugo Wendorff was born with Helene. Wilbrandt married.

politics

During the time of the German Empire , Wendorff was a member of the Progressive People's Party (FVP), for which he was a member of the Reichstag from January 1912 to November 1918 . In parliament he represented the constituency of Waren - Malchin .

Wendorff joined the German Democratic Party (DDP) after the November Revolution and was appointed Minister of State and President of the State Ministry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on November 9, 1918 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV . At the same time he took over the management of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Interior. On February 22, 1919 he was elected Prime Minister of the state by the constituent state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , to which he himself belonged . From July 30, 1919, he was Prime Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Agriculture, Domains and Forests. On July 14, 1920, he resigned from his offices and was replaced as Prime Minister by Hermann Reincke-Bloch .

Wendorff was a member of the Rostock citizens' council in 1918/19, was a member of the Weimar National Assembly from January 1919 to June 1920 and remained a member of the state parliament in Mecklenburg-Schwerin until 1921 . Then he switched to Prussian state politics. From 1921 to 1924 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament . From November 7, 1921 to February 18, 1925, he was Minister of State for Agriculture, Domains and Forests in the government of the Free State of Prussia led by Prime Minister Otto Braun . As such, he was also a member of the Imperial Council . He was also a member of the party committee of the DDP, since 1930 of the German State Party (DStP).

Honors

• Honorary doctorate (Dr. med. Vet. Hc) from the University of Veterinary Medicine Berlin , 1927

See also

• Cabinet Wendorff I (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) - Cabinet Wendorff II (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) - Cabinet Wendorff III (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) - Cabinet Wendorff IV (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) - Cabinet Braun II (Prussia)

literature

• Helge bei der Wieden : The Mecklenburg governments and ministers. 1918–1952 (= writings on Mecklenburg history, culture and regional studies. Vol. 1). 2nd, supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1978, ISBN 3-412-05578-6 , pp. 67/68.
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Literature about Hugo Wendorff in the state bibliography MV
• Hugo Wendorff in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Hugo Wendorff in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
• List of Prussian Agriculture Ministers (Minister for Agriculture, Domains and Forests)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 (= Statistics of the German Reich. Vol. 250, ZDB -ID 542499-9 ). Booklet 2. Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, Berlin 1913, p. 101.