Leo Wehrmann

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Leo Wehrmann (born December 10, 1840 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † September 9, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer and, as ministerial director, head of the administrative department in the railway department in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works.

Life

After the family moved to Berlin, Leo Wehrmann, the son of a government assistant, attended the French grammar school there and passed the Abitur at the age of 17. He then did a year-long agricultural internship because his father “thought he was too young for student life”. So he only moved to the University of Göttingen in 1858 and immediately joined the Hannovera fraternity . He continued his law studies in Berlin. The internship in the district of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce was interrupted by participation in the wars of 1864 and 1866; Wehrmann distinguished himself during the storming of the Düppeler Schanzen in the German-Danish War .

After working as a court assessor for two years, he moved to the Prussian Railway Administration in 1868 and was initially employed at the Elberfeld Railway Directorate . In 1876 he was appointed government councilor, and in 1881 he was promoted to senior government councilor at the Bromberg Railway Directorate . For two years he served at the Erfurt Railway Directorate, of which he became President in 1892. The following year he took over as president of the much larger Wroclaw Railway Directorate . In 1899 he was appointed to the Prussian Ministry of Public Works and headed the administrative department in the transport department as ministerial director. His efforts to make the Reich responsible for the railways in Germany were unsuccessful, but in many cases he succeeded in creating uniform regulations in the German states. His work was recognized by the award of the Prussian Red Eagle Order II. Class with Star and Oak Leaves as well as the Prussian Crown Order I Class.

In 1903, Wehrmannstrasse near the train station in Wilhelmsburg (at that time an independent town in the Prussian province of Hanover , now part of Hamburg) was named after him. In 1908 he received the title of "Excellence". On the occasion of his retirement in 1909, he was appointed to the Real Secret Upper Government Council.

In 1914 he became a member of the lawless society in Berlin, a gentlemen's club founded in 1809, which still exists today and which is committed to maintaining tradition, culture and science.

Fonts

  • Travel studies on the facilities and equipment of the English railways, in particular on the organization of freight traffic and transport , Elberfeld: Bädeker, 1877
  • The administration of the railways , Berlin: Springer, 1913

literature

  • Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State, Berlin 1891–1913
  • Joseph Kürschner: State, Court and Municipal Handbook of the Empire and the individual states, 1894–1909
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , p. 232

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity of Hannovera Göttingen, 1848–1998 , Düsseldorf 1998, page 33
  2. ↑ http://www.bahnstatistik.de/Dirktionen/KED_Bromberg.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.bahnstatistik.de/Dirktionen/Rbd_Erfurt.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.bahnstatistik.de/Dirktionen/RBD_Breslau.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.alt-wilhelmsburg.de/strassennamen.htm#W
  6. ↑ http://www.gesetzlose-gesellschaft.de/alphabet.phtml#W
  7. ↑ http://www.gesetzlose-gesellschaft.de/
personal data
SURNAME Wehrmann, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and ministerial director
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1919
Place of death Berlin , Free State of Prussia