Wilhelm Brückner (lawyer)

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Wilhelm Brückner (born December 29, 1878 in Schloen , † September 18, 1928 in Schwerin ; full name: Wilhelm Heinrich Brückner ) was a German lawyer , civil servant and politician .

Life and work

Wilhelm Brückner was born in Schloen as the youngest son of the evangelical theologian, pastor and church councilor Adolf Brückner (1834-1927) and his second wife, Sophie Körner (1839-1915). After graduating from high school in Waren in 1897 , he began studying mathematics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . There he became a member of the Brunsviga fraternity in 1897 . He changed the subject, now studied law and was at the same time a member of the seminar for insurance science. In 1899 he passed the exam for insurance experts in the administrative class. He then continued his legal studies at the universities in Berlin , Göttingen and Rostock . In 1901 he passed the first state examination in law. In the same year he was at the University of Rostock Dr. jur. doctorate (dissertation: legacy acquisition according to common rights and according to the civil code ).

After the second state examination in law in 1904, Brückner worked as Senate Secretary in Lübeck in 1905/06 . From 1906 to 1909 he worked as a judge at the Lübeck district court. After the death of the legal senior church councilor Carl Schmidt , Brückner came in 1913, initially as a legal assistant, to the Mecklenburg-Schwerin church councilor in Schwerin and worked from 1913 to 1919 himself as an upper church councilor. From 1915 he took part in the First World War as a war volunteer , first in the Balkans and later in Pleskau . From 1919 he worked as a ministerial official in the Schwerin Ministry of Justice. In the same year he was appointed Ministerial Director. On September 18, 1928 Wilhelm Brückner committed in Schwerin suicide .

Wilhelm Brückner had been married to Agnete von Heimburg (1886-after 1931), daughter of the secret government councilor Ernst von Heimburg from Schwartau, since 1907 . His only child, son Adolf, died in 1909 just three days after he was born.

politics

Brückner did not belong to any party. From 1910 to 1912 he was first mayor of the city ​​of Schleswig and from 1915 to 1917 chairman of the Schwerin citizens' committee. From April 12, 1921 to December 15, 1923, he was Minister of State for Justice in the government of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin led by Prime Minister Johannes Stelling .

See also

literature

  • Helge bei der Wieden : The Mecklenburg governments and ministers. 1918–1952 (= writings on Mecklenburg history, culture and regional studies. Vol. 1). 2nd, supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1978, ISBN 3-412-05578-6 , p. 41/42.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume 1: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 142-143.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ At Willgeroth The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes ... (1925) wrongly: September 29, 1878; Corrected by author in the supplementary volume (1933).
  2. ^ Enrollment of Wilhelm Brückner in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Brückner, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brückner, Wilhelm Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, administrative officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Locks
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1928
Place of death Schwerin