Hans Victor von Unruh

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Hans Victor von Unruh , also Hans Viktor von Unruh , (born March 28, 1806 in Tilsit ; † February 4, 1886 in Dessau ) was a German civil engineer , Prussian construction officer and politician , President of the Prussian National Assembly , member of the Reichstag and landlord on the estate Otten.

Victor von Unruh

Life

origin

Victor von Unruh came from the originally Franconian noble family Unruh , who first appeared in a document with Ernestus Unrowe in 1212. He was a son of the Prussian major general Friedrich Christoph Wilhelm von Unruh (1766-1835) and his wife Karoline, née Freiin von Buttlar (1776-1858).

Career

Unruh attended the cathedral school in Königsberg . His father advised against following the family tradition and becoming a soldier. After completing an apprenticeship as a geodesist , he worked for the general commission for the regulation of landlord and rural conditions and separations. He then studied at the Berlin Building Academy . In 1828 he passed his exams with Karl Friedrich Schinkel .

In Wroclaw he worked as a hydraulic engineering inspector . In 1839 he accepted an appointment as a government and building councilor in Gumbinnen . In 1843 his request to be transferred to Potsdam was granted. In 1844 Unruh took a leave of absence from the civil service and took over the construction management of the Magdeburg-Potsdam railway line . After its completion he became a member of the board of directors of the Magdeburg-Wittenberg Railway . For this reason he moved to Magdeburg.

Together with August Borsig he went on several study trips abroad.

After the March Revolution of 1848 , Unruh for Magdeburg was elected to the Prussian Constituent Assembly . This, although he did not belong to the opposition groups Citizens' Assembly or Friends of Light in the city. He represented a constitutional model of the state with British characteristics and thus became a candidate for the moderate liberals . He was the opponent of the left-wing liberal candidate, Friedrich Pax . In the Berlin parliament, Unruh first joined the left and later the right center .

Unruh was elected Vice President on October 17, 1848, and President of the Constituent Assembly on October 28, 1848. He held this office until its dissolution on December 5, 1848. He tried to prevent new revolutionary struggles and rejected the armed struggle against the incipient counter-revolution , he also turned against the tax refusal campaign of the left wing. Unruh was elected to the second chamber of the Prussian state parliament for Magdeburg in January 1849 . After the state parliament was dissolved by the king, he spoke out against the Prussian three-class suffrage . In the period after the revolution he had to endure reprisals from the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . His appointment as mayor of Magdeburg , which was requested by the majority of Magdeburg city ​​councilors , was rejected.

In 1855 Victor von Unruh moved to Anhalt in order to escape the Prussian influence. There he founded the Deutsche Continental Gasgesellschaft in Dessau . He built urban gas stations in various cities, including Mönchengladbach , Magdeburg and Lemberg . In Magdeburg, he was also involved in the construction of the waterworks on the Wolfswerder in an advisory capacity .

Unruh was one of the founders of the German National Association in 1859 and in 1861 he was also involved in the constitution of the German Progressive Party , of which he was first chairman from 1861 to 1863. In 1863 he was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives for Magdeburg . As a result, he supported, like many of his party friends, the policies of Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck . After the breakup of the German Progressive Party due to this rapprochement, he founded the National Liberal Party together with Rudolf von Bennigsen in 1867 . From 1867 to 1879 Unruh was, again for Magdeburg, a member of the North German and German Reichstag . On September 10, 1879, Unruh resigned his seat in the Reichstag. As Vice President he introduced the Hammelsprung voting procedure in the Reichstag .

Honors

In 1876 Unruh received the honorary citizenship of the city of Magdeburg, in 1880 that of the city of Dessau. The city of Magdeburg named Viktor-von-Unruh-Strasse after him. In the city of Dessau, Unruhstrasse is located in the historic Gasviertel, today's seat of the Federal Environment Agency .

family

Grave on the new burial site in Dessau

Unruh married the divorced Ernestine von Risselmann, née von Knobloch (1802–1869), in Breslau on September 14, 1828 . The daughter Anna Gottliebe Karoline (1829-1830) emerged from the later divorced marriage.

His second marriage was in the autumn of 1834 in Frankfurt (Oder) Marie Clement (1816–1849), daughter of the Prussian judiciary Gottfried Wilhelm Clement and his wife Wilhelmine, born children. The couple had several children:

  • Hans Eugen Wilhelm (1835–1836)
  • Hans Oskar (1837–1904), engineer and city councilor in Grünberg (Silesia)
  • Hedwig Marie Ottilie (1840–1900) ⚭ June 20, 1860 Richard von Thümen (1836–1897), Prussian major general
  • Conrad Max (1842–1921), Privy Councilor ⚭ June 3, 1868 Marie Fridrike Jeannette Steffeck (* 1850)
  • Marie Ottilie (1847–1913) ⚭ Timon von Rauchhaupt (1827–1888), Prussian major general

Fonts

  • Sketches from Prussia's most recent history. 1849.
  • Experience from the last three years. A contribution to the criticism of the political middle parties. 1851.
  • Memories from life. (edited by Heinrich von Poschinger ) 1895.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Victor von Unruh  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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, Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 94.
  2. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1909. Third year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1908, p. 631.
personal data
SURNAME Unruh, Hans Victor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unruh, Hans Viktor von; Unruh, Georg Victor von; Balance, Victor von; Balance, Viktor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer, Prussian construction officer, politician (DFP, NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Tilsit
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1886
Place of death Dessau