Ludwig Conrad Leopold Wibel

Ludwig Conrad Leopold Wibel (born January 16, 1768 in Glückstadt ; † July 26, 1833 in Eutin ) was an Oldenburg government official and from 1817 to 1831 first district president in the Principality of Birkenfeld, which belongs to Oldenburg .

Life

Wibel came from a family of civil servants and was the son of senior administrator Georg Friedrich Wibel. He studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Kiel and then became an auscultator at the government chancellery for Holstein in his hometown in 1790 .

In 1795 he moved to the government and justice chancellery in the royal seat of the Principality of Lübeck Eutin as secretary . In 1797 he was appointed office assistant professor and in 1804 promoted to office and government councilor. In the same year he also became a member of the "Literary Society" in Eutin.

In 1817 Duke Peter I. Wibel transferred the administration of the Principality of Birkenfeld, which had been awarded to Oldenburg in the Congress of Vienna . As chairman of the provisional administrative commission, he took possession of the area in April 1817 together with the Bundestag envoy Günther von Berg for the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and was appointed the first government director on September 2, 1817. As a result, Wibel was able to overcome the difficulties of the initial phase of the Oldenburg administration, but has been criticized with increasing severity since 1820 for his weak administration. A general visit carried out by Günther von Berg, who has now been appointed Minister of State, confirmed these allegations. As a result, in June 1831, Wibel was replaced by Laurenz Hannibal Fischer , who with his autocratic - patriarchal style led the government relentlessly but also energetically. Wibel retired, which he spent in Eutin, where he died two years later.

family

On October 13, 1797, Wibel married Luise Friederike geb. von Mecklenburg († 1825), the daughter of the district and government councilor Friedrich Wilhelm von Mecklenburg. The couple's two sons, Wilhelm (1800–1864) and Ernst (1802–1863), became members of the Oldenburg state parliament . The daughter Maria Amalia Anna (1798–1833) married the Oldenburg senior government councilor Ernst Hellwag (1780–1862). The son Wilhelm Hellwag (1827–1882), Wibel's grandson, who came from this marriage , became an important railway engineer.

literature

• Hans Friedl: Wibel (Wiebel), Ludwig Conrad Leopold. In: 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. 788 ( online ).