Wilhelm August Bredt

Wilhelm August Bredt (born March 16, 1817 in Barmen (now part of Wuppertal ), † March 23, 1895 in Honnef ) was a Prussian administrative officer and politician.

Life

education

Bredt came from a long-established, evangelical-reformed Barmer merchant family. He was born as the son of the spinning mill owner Friedrich Wilhelm Bredt and Charlotte Bredt, nee. Rübel. At the beginning he attended the city and secondary school in his hometown, before he moved to the grammar school in Bielefeld in 1833 , which he graduated with the final exam on September 28, 1836. 1836-1839 he studied at the universities of Bonn and Berlin law .

Bredt as a Prussian civil servant

After completing his studies, Bredt joined the Prussian judicial service. May 7, 1840, he began as Auskultator the Berlin Regional Court where he June 25, 1842 appointment as court clerk to the local Court of Appeal changed. On September 28, 1842, Bredt returned to the Koblenz government in the Rhineland in the course of his transfer as a government trainee. His implementation as a government assessor to the Düsseldorf government dates from January 25, 1847. During the ten years up to his resignation from civil service in 1857, Bredt performed the following tasks: First from October 1, 1847 to December 31, 1848, the administration of the Elberfeld district office , then employment with the Upper Presidium of the Rhine Province and in July 1850 with the Sigmaringen government . From there he returned to the Düsseldorf government. In November 1854 he switched to the Prussian Ministry of Finance in Berlin as an unskilled worker . While he was there, he was elected mayor of Barmen on December 9, 1854 , and was appointed as acting on October 2, 1855. Since Bredt was in the service of the Düsseldorf government, on January 7, 1857 he was appointed to the government council . With his departure on April 6, 1857, the confirmation of his election and the award of the title of mayor was connected.

Bredt as a politician

At the age of 40 August Bredt was introduced to the office of Lord Mayor of Barmen on May 15, 1857. He remained in this position until his retirement on October 1, 1879. In connection with the confirmation of his re-election on April 6, 1868, he was given the character of a secret councilor. During his tenure, while the Barmen grew into an industrial city, the population more than doubled from around 41,000.

Bredt was a member of various parliaments, for example for the right-wing center in 1848 as a representative of the "Wuppertal" in the Prussian National Assembly and in 1851/52 in the Second Chamber of the Prussian Landtag . As a representative of the city of Barmen, Bredt was appointed to the Prussian mansion on July 29, 1874 (entry on January 16, 1875). After his retirement on October 1, 1879, he received another appointment on October 3, 1879 (joining October 28, 1879). In 1867, Bredt ran a by-election for a seat in the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation , but was subject to Johann Baptist von Schweitzer .

Private

August Bredt married on May 2, 1854 in Krefeld Amalie von der Leyen (born November 23, 1830 in Krefeld; † 1926), a daughter of the businessman and commercial councilor Konrad von der Leyen and Sophia von der Leyen, née. Gontard. The son Julius Bredt (1855–1937), who became a chemist, emerged from the marriage . After his retirement, Bredt moved to Honnef , where he owned the villa at Hauptstrasse 6 and in 1892 founded the Hohenhonnef pulmonary hospital . In the city archives Wuppertal are personal matters and correspondence from his estate.

Honors

• 1868 - Characterized as a secret councilor
• 1879 - The city of Barmen was granted honorary citizenship (on the occasion of his resignation from the office that he held for a long time in Barmen)

literature

• Wilhelm Kosch, continued by Eugen Kuri: Biographisches Staats Handbuch. Lexicon of politics, press and journalism. Volume 1, Francke, Bern and Munich 1963, p. 158.
• Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 378 f .
• Gerhart Werner:  Bredt, Wilhelm August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 569 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Acta Borussica Volume 4 / I (1848-1858)
• Acta Borussica Volume 4 / II (1848-1858)
• Acta Borussica Volume 6 / I (1867–1878)
• Acta Borussica Volume 6 / II (1867–1878)
• Acta Borussica Volume 7 (1879–1890) (PDF file; 2.8 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm August Bredt , heidermanns.net