Philipp Wilhelm Wernher

Wilhelm Philipp Wernher

Philipp Wilhelm Wernher (born January 12, 1802 in Mainz , † October 6, 1887 in Nierstein ) was a Hessian liberal politician and winemaker .

Life

Wilhelm Wernher studied Protestant theology and law at the universities of Gießen , Göttingen and Heidelberg from 1819 to 1823 . During his studies in 1819 he became a member of the Gießen General Burschenschaft Germania . He was also a member of the Göttingen and Heidelberg fraternities. After breaking off his studies because of an eye problem, he lived from 1824 as the owner of a winery in Nierstein.

In 1844 he became a member of the second chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse for the constituency of Oppenheim and, as a colleague of Heinrich von Gagern , whom he taught in the operation of agricultural goods, was part of the liberal opposition. Together with Gagern, he took part in the Heppenheim conference on October 10, 1847 , and in the Heidelberg assembly on March 5, 1848 . He then belonged to the pre-parliament and from May 18, 1848 to May 24, 1849 represented the Alsfeld constituency in the Frankfurt National Assembly . In the Paulskirche he belonged to the Württemberger Hof parliamentary group and was a member of several committees.

In September 1848, Philipp Wilhelm Wernher, together with the President of the Pre-Parliament Carl Mittermaier, split off the Augsburger Hof faction , which, together with the casino, accepted a small German solution and a hereditary empire and generally represented more nationally liberal views. However , she continued to vote with the Württemberg court on issues relating to the Paulskirche constitution .

In 1850 he was a member of the Erfurt Union Parliament . In 1856 he was re-elected to the Hessian Second Chamber, which he still belonged to until 1872. From 1872 until his death he was a member of the Hessian First Chamber.

In 1867 Wernher became a district councilor in the Oppenheim district and director of the Darmstadt public debt repayment fund.

family

Wilhelm Wernher was the son of the Privy Councilor and Court President Johann Wilhelm Wernher . On October 1, 1825, he married Auguste Carl (1806-1833) in Hanau , the daughter of the court lawyer and Hanau mayor Georg Wilhelm Carl . After Wernher's death on September 11, 1835 in Selzen, Katharina Dilg (1810–1865), daughter of the church council and pastor of Selzen. Wilhelm Wernher was also a Protestant.

The following children were born from the first marriage:

• Wilhelm (1826–1906), grocer, member of parliament
• Julie (1828–1904), married to Major Theodor Reh (1826–1884)
• Carl (1830–1889), pharmacist in Oppenheim

The following children were born from the second marriage:

• Wilhelmine Johanne (Caroline) (1836–1862), married to the miller and farmer in Germersheim, Valentin Bernion (1829–1898)
• Ernst (1837–1909), businessman, economist, mayor, member of parliament
• Paul (1839–1901), Grand Ducal Hessian general of the cavalry
• Elise (* 1841), married to the miller and farmer in Germersheim, Valentin Bernion (1829–1898)
• Adolf (* 1841), iron merchant and politician in North America
• Julius (1845–1866), farmer and miller in Nierstein
• Sophie (* 1847), married to the dean in Kaiserslautern, August Vogt (1837–1880)

literature

Bernhard Koerner (Ed.): Genealogical handbook of middle-class families. Fifteenth volume, CA Starke, Görlitz 1909, pp. 454 ff.

• Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , pp. 268–269.
• Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical handbook of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and the political parties. Volume 8). Droste, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-7700-5193-9 .
• Roland Hoede: The Heppenheimer assembly of October 10, 1847. W. Kramer: Frankfurt am Main 1997. ISBN 3-7829-0471-0 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 274-275.

Web links

• Wernher, Philipp Wilhelm in the Hessian biography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - Die Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, D. Allgemeine Burschenschaft Germania. No. 159,
2. ^ Secret State Archives PK, IV. HA, Rep. 7, No. 3551.