Kurt von Wilmowsky
Adolf Wilhelm Kurt Freiherr von Wilmowsky (born May 7, 1850 in Merseburg , † August 6, 1941 in Jena ) was a German manor owner , head of the Reich Chancellery , President of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein and Governor of the Province of Saxony .
Life
The Wilmowsky family (also Wilmowski) was raised to the Polish nobility in 1558 by King Sigismund II August of Poland. In 1561 members of the family received a Bohemian coat of arms.
Kurt von Wilmowsky was the son of Karl von Wilmowsky (1817-1893), 1869-1888 head of the secret civil cabinet of Kaiser Wilhelm I and a member of the Prussian mansion, which was raised to the hereditary baron status in the Kingdom of Prussia, and Anna Freifrau von Wilmowsky born von Seebach († 1895). Gustav von Wilmowski was his uncle.
Wilmowsky attended the French grammar school in Berlin , where he passed the matriculation examination on September 10, 1867. He studied law at the Universities of Lausanne, Heidelberg and Berlin. After the first state examination on July 26 began in 1870 by Wilmowsky a civil service career as a Supreme Court - trainee . In 1876, after passing the 2nd state examination, he was appointed court assessor and from 1877 worked as a government assessor in Hanover . He then became a bailiff in the north (East Frisia) . In 1891 he was promoted to the Secret Upper Government Council and worked as a member of the settlement commission for Poznan and West Prussia as well as in the committee for flood issues. From 1894 he served in Berlin as head of the Reich Chancellery under Reich Chancellor Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst . In 1895 he moved to the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture as a lecturer .
In 1901, von Wilmowsky was appointed Upper President of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein. From 1906 to 1908 he was President of the Province of Saxony in Magdeburg . From 1908 to 1921 he served as governor of the province of Saxony.
In 1919 Wilmowsky became a member of the Academy of Non-Profit Science in Erfurt .
Out of special royal trust, he was appointed to the Prussian mansion for life by the Supreme Order of June 16, 1913 . This mandate ended with the November Revolution of 1918. In the mansion he was the leader of the Conservative faction. On December 28, 1915 he became district deputy in the Eckartsberga district. In 1918 he became a member of the DNVP . For this he was elected to the provincial parliament of the province of Saxony . This elected him in 1921 to the Prussian State Council, which he presided over as senior president at the constituent meeting. He was a member of the State Council until December 31, 1928. He was deputy chairman of the Constitutional Committee of the State Council.
Von Wilmowsky married on May 28, 1877 Auguste von Wilke (born April 7, 1856 ), the daughter of Hermann Karl von Wilke ( Consul General in London and Privy Legation Councilor in the Foreign Office ) and Sidonie von Wilke nee. Nuglish . In 1893 he acquired the Marienthal manor near Eckartsberga in the province of Saxony. His son Tilo von Wilmowsky was an agricultural politician for the German National People's Party and, after his marriage to Barbara Krupp, deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Friedrich Krupp AG . His second-born son Friedrich von Wilmowsky became Lieutenant General and was active as such until 1945.
literature
- Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 , pp. 179-180.
- Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? , Berlin 1928
- Tilo von Wilmowsky: Looking back, I would like to say ... Oldenburg 1961
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to Tilo von Wilmowsky: Looking back, I would like to say ... , p. 14ff., He acquired Schloss Spiez ( memento of the original from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Wilmowsky, Kurt von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilmowsky, Adolf Wilhelm Kurt Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian lawyer, head of the Reich Chancellery, senior president and governor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merseburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1941 |
| Place of death | Jena |