Joseph Werren

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Joseph Christoph Otto Werren (born March 27, 1810 in Wiesbaden-Biebrich , † September 17, 1881 in Wiesbaden by suicide) was a Nassau civil servant.

Joseph Werren was the son of Lieutenant Colonel, General Auditor of the Ducal Nassau Army Hermann Joseph Ignaz Werren (1774–1838) and his wife Karoline Elisabeth née Leo. Werren, who was a Catholic denomination, married Elisabetha née Ortenbach (* 1840) from Höchst. Their son Hermann Werren became a railway engineer and in 1881 married Auguste Kirschbaum, the daughter of the natural scientist Carl Ludwig Konrad Kirschbaum.

Joseph Werren attended the Weilburg high school and after graduating from high school, studied at the University of Göttingen . After graduating, he was the official secretary in the Usingen office . In 1841 he became a captain and auditor in the 1st Nassau Regiment. In 1845 he was transferred to the 2nd Nassau Regiment. In 1848 he was temporarily bailiff in the Königstein office .

In the March Revolution he expressed himself as a constitutional. In 1848 he became Nassau Government Councilor in the Ministry of the Interior of the government of the Duchy of Nassau , also head of the theater commission. In 1850 he became a ministerial advisor. In 1850 he was a member of the state house of the Erfurt Union Parliament . He was involved in the repeal of the revolutionary laws in 1851. In 1852 he also became chief of the police department (including the secret police). In 1864 he was appointed government director in Wiesbaden and became government commissioner in the Nassau state parliament . From 1865 to 1866 he was a member of the State Council and director of the Chamber of Accounts. After the annexation of Nassau by Prussia, he was relieved of his duties on July 31, 1866 and retired in 1867.

Werren was "highly conservative, Catholic, Greater German and loyal to his Duke" He was awarded the Commander's Cross 2nd Class of the Duke of Nassau Adolf's Order.

literature

  • Otto Renkhoff, Nassauische Biographie, 2nd edition 1992, 864, no.4718
  • Jürgen Hartmann, The family of soldiers and officials in Nassau, Werren, in: Nassau. Annals 116, 2005, 429-443.
  • Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 335-336.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Hartmann, The Nassau family of soldiers and officials Werren, p. 438
personal data
SURNAME Werren, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werren, Joseph Christoph Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nassau official
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden-Biebrich
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1881
Place of death Wiesbaden