Paul Wesenfeld

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Paul Hermann Wesenfeld (born September 27, 1869 in Barmen (now part of Wuppertal ) in the Rhineland , † November 27, 1945 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German industrialist and politician ( DNVP ).

family

Paul Wesenfeld came from a family of manufacturers from Barmen in the Rhineland. The university professor Arnold Wesenfeld was one of his direct ancestors. He was born on September 27, 1869 as the son of the factory owner Carl Ludwig Wesenfeld (1816-1883) and Emilie Siebel (1840-1922), the daughter of the factory owner Carl August Siebel (1805-1888) in Barmen. His half-brother Carl Ludwig Wesenfeld contributed to the worldwide spread of corrugated iron with a special invention . In 1895 Paul Wesenfeld married Hildegard Klein (* 1875), the daughter of the Barmer factory owner Georg Klein (1843–1901).

Life

From 1888, Wesenfeld studied law at the Université de Lausanne , the University of Strasbourg and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1891 he completed his legal traineeship and was awarded a doctorate in law . In 1895 he completed his law studies with the assessor examination and first settled as a lawyer and notary in Barmen in the Rhineland , where he was awarded the title of Counselor . Since 1900 he was a city ​​councilor for almost 30 years on the city council of the city of Barmen, which had grown into a large city with 60,000 inhabitants since around 1884. His office ended when the city of Wuppertal was founded in 1929 from the merger of Barmen with other cities and communities .

In 1920 he was elected a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Rhine Province and a member of the Provincial Committee based in Düsseldorf , of which he was a member for 13 years until 1933. In addition, in 1921 he was elected a member of the Prussian State Council , the second chamber of the Parliament of the Free State of Prussia , of which he was a member for 12 years until its dissolution in 1933. There he worked, among other things, as chairman of the constitutional committee. In 1929 he was also appointed a member of the General Synod by the regional church committee of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .

After retiring from politics in 1933, he was chairman of the supervisory board of the traditional German textile company JP Bemberg AG in Wuppertal, as well as a member of the supervisory board and member of the regional committee for West Germany at Commerz- und Privat-Bank .

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4
  • EW Röhrig: History of the Wesenfeld family. Wuppertal-Barmen, 1934

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Boberach , Carsten Nicolaisen , Ruth Pabst: Handbook of the German Evangelical Churches 1918 to 1949: Organs - Offices - Associations - Personnel. P. 222.
  2. ↑ Commerz- und Privat-Bank AG: Annual report on the 65th business year (1934) of Commerz- und Privat-Bank AG , p. 8, 9. ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Wesenfeld, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wesenfeld, Paul Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist and politician (DNVP)
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen , Rhineland
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1945
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau