Johannes Eduard Folckard Willms

Johannes Eduard Folckard Willms (born September 7, 1860 in Jever ; † December 19, 1937 ibid) was a German administrative lawyer and district president of the Oldenburg region of Lübeck .

Life

Willms was a son of the Jever wine merchant Onko Emmius Willms (1827–1889) and his wife Johanne Rosaline Henriette, nee. Volkhausen (1836–1871). His brother Otto Georg Hermann Willms , who was six years his junior , became mayor of Delmenhorst . He attended the Mariengymnasium Jever and studied law in Tübingen, Berlin and Göttingen. In 1880 he was reciprocated in the Corps Borussia Tübingen . In 1883 he passed the tentamen (1st state examination) and in 1889 the examination (2nd state examination). He entered the Oldenburg civil service and was initially an auditor at the Cloppenburg office . In 1891 he became a legal assistant cum votoTransferred (with vote) to the government in the Principality of Birkenfeld . In 1892 he was permanently employed and appointed as an official assessor. In 1896 he came to the Westerstede office and in 1897 to the government in Eutin. In 1899 he was appointed a member of the auditing authority in Eutin and in 1901 a government assessor in the government in Eutin. On May 1, 1901, he was governor for the office of Friesoythe . In 1905 he came as a lecturer council to the Department of the Interior under the title of government councilor. At the same time he became a member of the management of the widow's, orphan's and life annuity fund in Oldenburg . In 1906 he was appointed civil chairman of the senior replacement commission and civil chairman of the examination commission for one-year volunteers . From 1907 he was at the same time the master of the order of the grand ducal chancellery (until 1912) and from 1908 he was deputy of a member of the house affidavit directorate (until 1911). In 1911 he was appointed director of the fire fund administration in Oldenburg, and in 1912 he was promoted to senior government councilor in the Department of the Interior. On October 15, 1919 he was appointed as the successor to Peter Friedrich Nicolaus Meyer as chairman of the government in Eutin with the title of government president. He was retired on August 1, 1927.

Since 1892 he was married to Amalie Eleonore geb. Graepel (1868–1947), a daughter of the Oldenburg State Parliament President Friedrich Graepel (1818–1890) and sister of Minister Otto Graepel (1857–1924). The couple had two daughters.

Honors

• Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig
  • 1913 Honorary Knight's Cross, 2nd class, with the silver crown
  • 1914 Knight's Cross of Honor, 1st Class
• Order of the Red Eagle III. Class (1914)

literature

• Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 800 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Entry , Lower Saxony State Archives (Oldenburg location) , Directory of State Services Directory, Order 1 No. 598 p. 763

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Borussia corps list
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 126/84.
3. ^ Gravestones in Jever