Wilhelm Farwick

Wilhelm Farwick

Wilhelm Farwick (born April 24, 1863 in Lüdinghausen / Westphalia, † October 27, 1941 in Aachen ) was a German politician of the German Center Party .

Live and act

Wilhelm Farwick was the son of a landowner. He attended the Antonianum Vechta high school and graduated from high school in 1882. From 1882 to 1886 he studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn . In 1884 he became a member of the K.St.V. Arminia Bonn and the K.St.V. Askania-Burgundia in Berlin, and later the K.St.V. Saxonia in Munich .

1887 dutifully performed his military service. After the second state examination in 1892 he was a legal assistant in the city administrations of Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen .

From May 17, 1894 to June 1898, he was mayor of Steele and a member of the district council in the Essen district . From June 15, 1898 to December 6, 1906 he was the second mayor of Münster . He was then from December 7, 1906 to 1909, First Deputy in Cologne and then Director of the Schaafhausen'schen Bankverein . On June 9, 1905, he was appointed a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia , but later resigned.

Farwick was Mayor of Aachen from November 24, 1916 to September 30, 1928. On February 10, 1917 he was awarded the title of Lord Mayor . During his term of office in Aachen, he was occupied by the Belgian troops. On May 25, 1923, he was sentenced by a Belgian court martial to a month's imprisonment and a fine of one million marks for his protest against the harsh measures of the occupation troops and finally expelled from Aachen in July 1923. In April 1924 he was able to resume work and that year also became chairman of the German Catholic Congress in Hanover . He was considered a great sponsor of equestrian sport, the CHIO Aachen was founded with his support and took place for the first time in 1924.

MP

Farwick was a member of the Prussian mansion from 1916 to 1919 , from 1919 to 1920 a member of the National Assembly for the German Center Party of the constitution- making national assembly in Weimar and from 1928 to 1932 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

Honors

Farwick received the plaque of honor of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule . For his services to the promotion of the Münster Academy to a university , he was awarded the Red Eagle Order IV class. He also received the Iron Cross II. Class, the Cross of Merit of the Prussian and Dutch Red Cross and the Knight's Cross of the Papal Order of Gregory .

The northern part of the Aachen city garden , which was expanded from 1925 to 1928, was named after him.

literature

• Heinrich Schiffers: Wilhelm Farwick, Lord Mayor of Aachen . Aachen 1941.
• Horst Romeyk: The leading state and municipal administrators of the Rhine Province 1816-1945 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 978-3-7700-7585-0 , p. 441 .
• Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical association for the city and monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 98-99 .

Web links

• Biographical information on the website of the Historical Commission for Westphalia
• Wilhelm Farwick in the database of members of the Reichstag

predecessor	Office	successor
Theodor Heider	Mayor of Steele 1894–1898	Bernhard Schulz