Ludwig Wilhelm Wilhelmi

Ludwig Wilhelm Wilhelmi (born November 19, 1796 in Neuenhain ; † May 11, 1882 in Wiesbaden ) was a Protestant regional bishop in the Duchy of Nassau and a member of parliament.

Life

After attending grammar school in Idstein from 1806 to 1813, Wilhelmi studied Protestant theology at the universities of Marburg and Heidelberg from 1814 to 1817. After completing his studies, he was first assistant preacher in Frankfurt am Main and from 1818 court chaplain in Biebrich am Rhein. 1818–1828 he was third and then second pastor in Wiesbaden. From 1821 to 1835 he was a school inspector in the city and district of Wiesbaden and was appointed to the church council in 1830. From 1836 to 1840 he was the first pastor and dean in Wiesbaden. In 1837 he was awarded a doctorate by the University of Göttingen. theol. PhD. In 1840 he was appointed to the Privy Council of Churches. From 1841 he was Episcopal Commissioner on behalf of Bishop Heydenreich. In 1856 he became chairman of the Nassau Gustav-Adolf-Verein. In 1858 he was appointed regional bishop. With the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau by Prussia in 1866, he was the last holder of this title. From 1870–1876 he was chairman of the Berlin Church Conference.

politics

From 1840 to 1848 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Estates of the Duchy of Nassau . He was elected in a by-election for Wilhelm Giessen from the group of heads of the clergy and higher education institutions. In 1848 he was a member of the Frankfurt pre-parliament . From 1849 he was commissioned by the Protestant Church with the disciplinary prosecution of oppositional clergy. From 1852 until the end of the Duchy in 1866 he was a member of the First Chamber of the Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau. 1852-1857 he was a representative of the sick regional bishop Ludwig Heydenreich , from 1858 a member there as regional bishop.

family

Wilhelmi comes from a pastor's family. Both his father Johann Heinrich Franz Ferdinand Wilhelmi (born September 18, 1760 in Nordheim near Worms, † December 23, 1851 in Diez) and his father Johann Nikolaus David Wilhelmi were pastors. The mother Elisabetha Luisa Reichold (* 1768 in Hochspeyer; † October 18, 1804 in Neuenhain / Taunus) was the daughter of pastor Johann Georg Reichold and Anne Elise Knell.

Wilhelmi married on December 6, 1821 in Frankfurt am Main Johanna Philippine (Jenny) born Fuchs (born January 4, 1799 in Frankfurt am Main; † June 9, 1845 in Siegburg), the daughter of the merchant Matthias Christian Fuchs and his wife Anna Maria Elisabeth Manskopf (man's head).

After the death of his first wife, he married Marie Auguste, born Manskopf (born June 7, 1816 in Frankfurt am Main; † January 29, 1889 in Wiesbaden), the daughter of the wine merchant Jacob Philipp, on January 18, 1847 in Frankfurt am Main Leerse called Manskopf and the Jacobea Fuchs.

Works

• Evangelical-Christian country catechism for the Duchy of Nassau (1831, in use until 1890)

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). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 411.
• 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 , No. 276.
• Sauer, Wilhelm:  Wilhelmi, Ludwig Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 231 f.

Web links

• Wilhelmi, Ludwig Wilhelm in the Hessian biography