Johann Andreas Wehner

Johann Andreas Wehner (born June 3, 1785 in Stade , † November 12, 1860 in Zurich ) was a German educator , moor commissioner and member of the state assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover .

Life

Wehner was born as the son of the lawyer and councilor David Heinrich Wehner (1745-1818) and his wife Amalie Dorothee Wehner. Spillner (1761–1826) born. He began studying theology in Halle (Saale) in 1805 and switched to law studies in Göttingen in 1806 . Even while he was still at school, he was interested in questions of upbringing in terms of clarification . Around 1820 he married Annette Nörlinger (approx. 1795–1850). They had four sons, Arnold (1820–1880), Georg (1821–1896), August (1824–1907), Eduard (1826–1831) and a daughter Sophie (1822–1846).

Work as an educator

In 1809 he accepted a position as private tutor in Courland with a confidante of the last Polish king, Stanislaus II August Poniatowski , while he was looking after a son. In the summer of 1814 he explored the Pestalozzi educational institute in Yverdon , Switzerland . In 1819 he bought a house in Wülfel near Hanover and ran a reform home in it. In 1819 he unsuccessfully offered the government in Hanover to explore and redesign the education system. Just to get a seat in the States General in Hanover, he bought in 1820 the tiny diet viable farm ostrich Werder on the left bank of the river Weser near Sebbenhausen in the county Hoya . He became a member of the Second Chamber of the State Assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover for the Hoyas Free. Wehner also took on the education of young people in the form of guardianship . So he was guardian of Friedrich Wilhelm Unger until 1835 and of his brother Bodo Unger until 1843. In 1833 Wehner moved to the First Chamber. In 1825 he became the head of the rent office in Hanover and Langenhagen as rent master . In 1829 he moved to the administration of the Langenhagen peat bog and in 1830 received the title of Moor Commissair . He organized the survey and drainage. In 1833 he took over the administration of the Landeskorn magazine. In a detailed legal opinion in 1834, he demanded that non-aristocrats must also be elected to the First Chamber.

Other political activities

After he had participated in the purchase of the manor in Geismar near Göttingen in 1834, he moved with his family to Göttingen in 1836 . When the constitution was suspended in 1837 by Ernst August von Hanover , Wehner began intensive diplomatic activities for the opposition, in particular for Johann Hermann Detmold and Johann Carl Bertram Stüve . He was elected mayor at the end of December 1839 . However, his election had to be canceled because he lived outside the city walls of Göttingen. In order to hinder his political activity, the police director of Göttingen issued a residence and travel restriction for Wehner on January 30, 1840 without explanation. This defended himself unsuccessfully with lawsuits up to the Higher Appeal Court in Celle . It was not lifted again until the summer of 1841. However, he remained a deputy of the Second Chamber until 1846. During this time he campaigned for the Gustav-Adolf-Verein in Munich , which was banned in Bavaria from 1844 to 1849.

Emigration to Switzerland

He felt increasingly politically restricted in the Kingdom of Hanover and moved to Munich with his wife in 1846. There he wanted to seek a position in the Ministry of Education. Alone he left for Zurich via Stuttgart, where he was tolerated in 1847. After the death of his wife in March 1850, he was convicted of an estate dispute with his son-in-law Johann Eduard Wappäus by the Göttingen Higher Court in 1851 . His son, the academic music director Arnold Wehner (1820-1880) represented Wehner's interests in the proceedings. Around the same time, his former ward Bodo Unger claimed that Wehner had embezzled part of his property that Wehner managed for him. In a brutal verdict, he was sentenced to five years in prison by the Hanover jury court . After his early release in February 1853, he was expelled from the Kingdom of Hanover for life without a passport or certificate of residence. He filed a nullity complaint with the higher appeal court in Celle, without success . In 1856 he sold his Strausswerder estate to Rudolf von Bennigsen , who wanted to become a deputy. After his release from prison, he lived in Zurich from 1853 until his death (stroke), most recently as a boarder.

literature

• Conversation Lexicon of the Present , Volume 4.2, T – Z, pp. 358–362, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1841

Works

• Historical illumination of the main reasons put forward in the first chamber of the general estates of the Kingdom of Hanover against the validity of the election of a non-aristocratic deputy of the Hoya Knighthood , Leipzig, Brockhaus. 1834.
• Files and legal opinions on the entanglement that had existed since February 1, 1840 , Stuttgart, Krabbe 1841, under the government of His Majesty the King Ernst August von Hanover through his Ministry of the Interior against the Moor Commissair Wehner zu Göttingen .
• To the high royal court of appeal in Celle for the united departments of the Cassation Senate Introduction of the nullity complaint submitted by the former Moor Commissioner Wehner , Riesbach near Zurich, self-published in 1857.