Ludwig von Meerheimb

Ludwig Wilhelm Ferdinand Jaspar Freiherr von Meerheimb (born January 11, 1864 in Würzburg , † May 1, 1924 in Rostock ) was a German politician and civil servant. From 1914 to 1918 he was State Councilor and Head of the Ministry of the Interior in the State Ministry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

origin

Tomb of Ludwig and Else von Meerheimb in the New Cemetery in Bad Doberan

Ludwig von Meerheimb came from the Mecklenburg noble family of the Barons von Meerheimb . His parents were the landowner and Lieutenant Colonel Jasper Friedrich Andreas Leopold von Meerheimb (* October 1, 1824 - February 16, 1888) and his wife Ida Wilhelmine Luise Eleore von Lückner (* October 28, 1828).

Live and act

He grew up on his estate Gnemern near Bützow , where he initially received home schooling. Then he attended the cathedral school in Güstrow and obtained his Abitur in 1883. He then studied law in Heidelberg, Kiel and from 1886 at the University of Rostock . In October 1888 he passed the first state examination in law and then worked as a trainee lawyer in Güstrow, Schwerin and finally Rostock, where he passed the second examination in April 1894.

As a grand ducal domain official, Ludwig von Meerheimb first worked for two months as an official assessor at the domain of Bad Doberan before moving to the Grabow office . There he held the position of administrator from 1896. In 1899 he was transferred to the Bützow office and in 1904 appointed to the office . From 1905 he was the administrator of the Schwerin office and from 1906 district official of the grand ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin property management.

In 1908 Ludwig von Meerheimb was retired for health reasons and moved to Doberan. However, in 1910 he returned to government service and worked with the Office Doberan, where he spent two years later to Amtshauptmann was appointed. From 1912 he worked again as a district official.

On April 1, 1914, Ludwig von Meerheimb was appointed State Councilor and Chairman of the Ministry of the Interior in the State Ministry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . There he was also chairman of the main committee until 1918 . In 1915, the Kaiser awarded him the Iron Cross 2nd Class with a white and black ribbon for his “services to the preparation and implementation of the army’s railway operations” . On November 18, 1918, Ludwig von Meerheimb was dismissed on the occasion of the November Revolution . On the same day, Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV signed his appointment to the Real Secret Council .

After his release, Ludwig von Meerheimb first lived on his father's estate, then in the Rühn monastery . In 1922 he moved to Rostock, where he worked as a department head at the Mecklenburg Viehversicherungsgesellschaft and died in 1924 at the age of 60.

family

Ludwig von Meerheimb had been with Elisabeth (also Else; 1870–1909), born in 1895. Baroness von Brandenstein , married. She was the daughter of the cavalry general Georg von Brandenstein (1827-1897). The marriage had four children; the daughter Ilsabe (1898-1926) was married to Christian von Hammerstein .

Awards

• 1908: Knight's Cross of the House Order of the Wendish Crown
• 1915: Iron Cross 2nd class on white and black ribbon
• 1917: Predicate excellence
• 1917: House order of the Wendish Crown 2nd class
• 1918: Title Real Privy Council

literature

• Meerheimb, Ludwig von. In: Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871–1952. A biographical lexicon. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 , pp. 202-203.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser. 1893. Volume forty-third, p. 585. , 1915 p.619

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1884 member of the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg ; see. Kösener corps lists 1910 122 , 572.
2. ^ Enrollment of Ludwig Freiherr von Meerheimb , Rostocker matriculation portal , accessed on October 1, 2014.
3. ^ ^{A b c} Meerheimb, Ludwig von In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871-1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 202.
4. ^ ^{A b} Meerheimb, Ludwig von In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871-1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 203.