Walther Herwig

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Walther Herwig (1881)

Walther Johann Christian Adelbert Eduard Herwig (born February 25, 1838 in Arolsen , † December 16, 1912 in Berlin ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer, the doyen of German deep-sea fishing and promoter of German fisheries research .

Career

Herwig was the son of the council at the Landscape Chamber Friedrich Herwig (1809–1847) and his wife Clara née Giesecken. From 1854 to 1856 he attended the Alte Landesschule Korbach , where he had already become a member of a school association , and from 1856 studied law at the Georg-August University of Göttingen , where he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . He continued his studies at the University of Leipzig , the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin .

He married Marie nee Bunsen, a niece of the chemist Robert Bunsen . Their son Siegfried Herwig also became a member of the state parliament.

After graduating, he joined the internal administration of the Principality of Waldeck . In 1868 he became secretary of the circle of Twiste in his hometown Arolsen and in 1869 as a county magistrate in the district of Pyrmont to Bad Pyrmont added, where his uncle Carl Herwig (1802-1863) County Council had been. From 1869 to 1874 he was a member of the state parliament of the principalities of Waldeck and Pyrmont . In 1875 he switched to the Prussian civil service and was district administrator in the Ahaus district from 1875 to 1878 and in the Marienwerder district from 1878 to 1880 .

From 1880 he was Vice-President of the Provincial School and Medical College in Berlin and from 1889 to 1901 President of the Monastery Chamber in Hanover . From 1879 to 1893 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , in which he represented the constituency Marienwerder 1 (Stuhm - Marienwerder) and joined the parliamentary group of the Free Conservative Party . From 1895 State Councilor , he received the Dr. phil. hc from the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1902 he joined as a real. Go Upper government council in Hanover retires. From 1907 he lived in Berlin again.

Herwig was buried in the Stöcken city cemetery in Hanover.

Importance for deep sea fishing

Walther Herwig was one of the founders of the German offshore fishing association and promoted the late 19th century the development of the until then, apart from whaling , just off the coast operated fishing . It was also extended to the fish-rich waters of the North Atlantic . For this purpose, the first German fish steamers based on the English model were built from 1880. The first ship named after him, the fish steamer President Herwig , built in 1888 , was lost off the coast of Iceland in 1898 . During this time when a German deep-sea fishing fleet was being built up, Herwig was particularly committed to social compensation for the crews of the ships and achieved adequate basic supplies for the members of the fishermen who remained at sea.

Importance for marine research

Herwig was an influential supporter of German marine research and, when he left public administration in 1902, he became President of the Central Committee for International Marine Research , today the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea .

aftermath

The Federal Republic of Germany has so far given its name to three fishery research vessels in honor of the memory . The third Walther Herwig is currently sailing the waters of the North and Baltic Seas as well as the North Atlantic for the three fishery research institutes of the Thünen Institute (former Federal Research Institute for Fisheries ). The replacement building commissioned in 2017 will also bear this name again.

Fonts

  • Germany's participation in international marine research. Annual report. 1, 1902/1903 (1905) - 5, 1906/1907 (1908), ZDB -ID 549356-0 .

literature

  • Friedrich Heincke , Hermann Henking: Dr. Walther Herwig, President of the German Sea Fisheries Association. A memorial sheet. In: Messages from the German Sea Fisheries Association. Vol. 29, No. 4, 1913, ZDB -ID 840819-1 , pp. 92-136.
  • Paul Friedrich Meyer-Waarden: Walther Herwig. 1838-1912. Portrait of an important civil servant and pioneer (= publications of the Federal Research Center for Fisheries Hamburg. Vol. 13, ISSN  0438-4547 ). Heenemann, Berlin 1977.
  • Jens Smed: Walther Herwig. The first President of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). In: Walter Lenz, Margaret Deacon (Eds.): Ocean Sciences. Their History and Relation to Man (= Deutsche hydrographische Zeitschrift. Supplements. Series: B , Vol. 22, ISSN  0070-4172 ). Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on the History of Oceanography, Hamburg September 23-29, 1987. Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Hamburg 1990, pp. 323–329.
  • Axel Freiherr von Campenhausen (ed.): The general Hanover monastery fund and the monastery chamber Hanover. Schlueter, Hannover 1999, ISBN 3-87706-546-5 .
  • Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera to Göttingen. Volume 1: From 1809-1899. Association of Göttingen Hanoverians, Göttingen 2002, p. 196, no. 622.
  • Anne Mahn, Gerd Wegner: Fresh fish and heather. Walther Herwig - President of the Hanover Monastery Chamber and "Father of Fish". Hinstorff, Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-356-01532-4 .
  • Reinhard König: The members of the Waldeck Landtag from 1848 to 1929 . Hessisches Staatsarchiv, Marburg 1985, ISBN 3-88964-122-9 , p. 52.
  • Ludwig Luckemeyer: Liberales Waldeck and Pyrmont and Waldeck-Frankenberg 1821-1981, 1984, pp. 272-273.

Web links

Commons : Walther Herwig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne Mahn, Gerd Wegner: Fresh fish and heather , p. 18
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 42, 587.
  3. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867–1918 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 3). With the collaboration of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 177 f .; for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of 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. Vol. 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 140-143.
personal data
SURNAME Herwig, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative lawyer, doyen of German deep-sea fishing and founder of German marine research
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Arolsen
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1912
Place of death Berlin