Ludwig Völckers

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Ludwig (Louis) Friedrich Völckers (born February 27, 1802 in Wunstorf , † January 14, 1849 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .

Life

Ludwig Völckers was the eldest son of the Eutin doctor and district physicist for the Principality of Lübeck Friedrich Carl Völckers (1770–1866) and his wife Georgine Friederike Henriette, née. Meyer (1782-1858). He attended the community and scholarly school, today's Johann Heinrich Voss School in Eutin, studied law in Göttingen and became a member of the Corps Holsatia Göttingen in 1824 . After completing his studies, he initially worked as a lawyer in Schwartau and then entered the Oldenburg civil service. He was an auditor at the offices of Ganderkesee and Abbehausen; as assessor he came to the regional courts in Neuchâtel and Vechta. In 1832 he was transferred to the government of the Principality of Birkenfeld , which belonged to Oldenburg , and in 1839 was appointed Hofrat . In the same year he was appointed to the Oldenburg Higher Appeal Court and also assigned to the Grand Ducal Military College and the Military Court . In Oldenburg he joined the liberal literary sociable association in 1841 . In the autumn of 1847 he was transferred to the government in Eutin and head of the local law office.

In March 1848, after the March Revolution for the Eutin office in the electoral assembly, he was elected member of the assembly of 34 , the pre-parliament in the Grand Duchy, with 112 of 190 votes . The assembly of the 34 elected him at the constituent session on April 27, 1848 President of Parliament. From 1848 to 1849 he was a member of the parliament and president of the constituent state parliament.

Since 1842 he was married to Louise Adolphine Caroline, b. Kuhberg (approx. 1821–1887), the daughter of the Mecklenburg landowner Friedrich Kuhberg auf Dersenow and his wife Katharina Hedwig Ida, born. Bartning. The couple had a daughter and two sons. A memorial stone for Ludwig Völckers on the Gertrudenfriedhof bears the inscription: 'THE FIRST OLDENBURGER LANDTAG ITS PRESIDENT'.

literature

  • Albrecht Eckhardt: From the bourgeois revolution to the National Socialist takeover. The Oldenburg State Parliament and its deputies 1848–1933. Isensee, Oldenburg 1996, ISBN 3-89598-327-6 , p. 110 ( Oldenburger Forschungen NF 1).
  • Monika Wegmann-Fetsch: The revolution of 1848 in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. Holzberg, Oldenburg 1974, ISBN 3-87358-067-5 , S 124 ff. ( Oldenburger Studien 10), (also: Bonn, Univ., Diss., 1963)
  • Hans Friedl: Völckers, Ludwig (Louis) Friedrich. 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. 770 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Korpslisten 1910, 78 , 36; He was one of the signatories of the Göttingen SC Comment from 1825.