Max Weber senior

Max Weber Sr. with his wife Helene

Maximilian Max Weber (born May 31, 1836 in Bielefeld , † August 10, 1897 in Riga ) was a German lawyer , municipal civil servant and national liberal politician.

Weber came from the Bielefeld commercial matriculation . His brother was the Oerlinghausen entrepreneur Carl David Weber . Weber studied in Göttingen , where he joined the fraternity of Hannovera in the winter semester of 1854/55 , and in Berlin . After a doctorate to Dr. jur. utr. and second state examination in law, he worked for a short time at the city administration of Berlin.

Between 1862 and 1869 he was a paid city councilor in Erfurt . After that he was in a similar position in Berlin until 1893 , although he lived in Charlottenburg, which was still independent at the time .

He was a leading member of the National Liberal Party and was a member of the central board. Weber was a member of the Reichstag between 1872 and 1877 (Coburg constituency), 1879 and 1881 (Magdeburg-Stadt constituency) and from 1881 to 1884 (Holzminden-Gandersheim constituency) . He belonged to the Prussian House of Representatives from 1868 to 1882 (constituency of Erfurt) and from 1884 to 1892 (constituency of Oschersleben-Halberstadt-Wernigerode).

Weber was a member of the Reich Debt Commission and the Prussian Debt Commission.

He wrote some smaller political papers and works on local statistics.

Weber family grave in Berlin-Kreuzberg

With Helene Weber, b. Fallenstein (1844-1919), whom he married in 1863, he had eight children, six of whom reached adulthood, including the sociologists Max and Alfred Weber , Karl Weber , who became an architect and fell off Brest-Litovsk in World War I in 1917, and the youngest son Arthur (1877–1952), an officer. The oldest surviving daughter Clara (1875–1953) married the doctor Ernst Mommsen (1863–1930), a son of Theodor Mommsen .

Max Weber Sr. rests - after he died on a trip in Riga - in a family grave in cemetery IV of the congregation Jerusalems- und Neue Kirche on Bergmannstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg , where his wife, Clara and Ernst Mommsen were also buried.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity Hannovera Göttingen, 1848–1998 , Düsseldorf 1998, page 23, there: "Maximilian"
2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 578.
3. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 404f (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)
4. ^ Hinnerk Bruhns: Max Weber and the First World War . Mohr Siebck, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-16-152542-1 , p. 159 .
5. ^ Henning Tegtmeyer: Directory of members of the fraternity of Hannovera Göttingen, 1848–1998 , Düsseldorf 1998, page 23

literature

• Max Schwarz : MdR, Biographisches Handbuch der Reichstag , Hannover: Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen, 1965
• Biographical handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives : 1867–1918. Edited by Bernhard Mann with the assistance of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne, Düsseldorf: Droste, 1988, p. 404 f.
• Thomas Kühne: Handbook of the elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 420-421, 453-455 and 960.
• Guenther Roth: Max Weber's German-English family history 1800–1950 , Tübingen 2002
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft , Volume I: Politicians, Part 6: T – Z, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2005, p. 222 f.

Web links

• Max Weber senior in the database of members of the Reichstag