Ludwig Wenckenbach

Ludwig Karl Wenckenbach (born September 29, 1803 in Herborn , † March 2, 1854 in Wiesbaden ) was a Nassau official and politician.

Life

Ludwig Wenckenbach attended school in Herborn, then from 1818 to 1819 the Dillenburg Latin School and then from 1819 to 1822 the grammar school Weilburg . From 1823 he studied law at the University of Marburg .

In 1826 he became an office advisor in the office of Meudt . In the same function he worked in the offices of Herborn (1827), Diez (1828), Idstein (1830), Wehen (1831), Königstein (1832), Selters (1834) and again Königstein (1834-1836). From 1836 to 1838 he was official secretary in the Rennerod office and from 1838 to 1843 inquirent at the criminal court in Dillenburg . In the years 1843 to 1844 he worked successively as Secretary in Hadamar , Selters and Nassau . In 1846 he became regional high school student in the labor office. Due to his liberal views , he was dismissed from this office in 1850 with a reduced pension.

politics

After the March Revolution , he was a member of the Nassau Estates Assembly for constituency 11 (Idstein / Wehen) from 1848 to 1851 . He resigned at the last session of the state parliament. There was no by-election. He was one of the most famous members of the opposition after the March Revolution. He was a participant in the Idstein Democrats' Congress of Radical Democrats in June 1849 and was elected to the Committee of 7 there. In the subsequent high treason trial against leading participants from February 8 to 15, 1850 before the criminal court in Wiesbaden , he and the other defendants were acquitted by the jury.

family

Ludwig Wenckenbach, who was a Protestant denomination, was the son of the Official Assessor Johann Peter Wenckenbach (* July 4, 1774 in Wetter ; † July 14, 1829 in Herborn) and his wife Johanne Elisabethe Katharina nee Meerbott (* November 11, 1772 in Nauheim ; † March 30, 1856 in Herborn). His brother Ernst Wenckenbach was also a member of the state parliament.

Before September 1837 he married Johanette, nee Deul (born November 28, 1811 in Diez; † March 27, 1872 in Ems), the daughter of the city councilor Daniel Deul.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. 48, 7). Published on behalf of the Hessian Parliament. Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 407.
• Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1: Cornelia Rösner: The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. 59 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 16). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 , p. 188.

Web links

• Wenckenbach, Ludwig Karl. Hessian biography. (As of March 2, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

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