Wilhelm Genast

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Wilhelm Karl Albert Genast (born July 30, 1822 in Leipzig , † January 18, 1887 in Weimar ) was a German poet lawyer . Before and after the founding of the German Empire , he was a member of the Reichstag .

Life

Genast was the son of the Weimar singer and court actor Eduard Franz Genast . From 1841 to 1845 he studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Universität Jena . In Jena he became a member of the Arminia fraternity on the Burgkeller (1842) and the fraternity on the Fürstenkeller (1843). In Heidelberg he also joined the fraternity of Walhalla Heidelberg in 1844 . He settled as a lawyer in Weimar in 1845 , where he became a public prosecutor in 1852 . From 1865 he was a member of the Weimar state parliament and in 1872 became a secret councilor.

In 1867 he was elected to the Reichstag (North German Confederation) for the National Liberal Party , then in 1871 to the Reichstag (German Empire) for constituency 3 Weimar , in which he was a member of the National Liberal parliamentary group . Here he stood out in particular as an opponent of the death penalty . In 1872 he became a lecturer in the Weimar Ministry and in 1873 also president of the regional synod. Because of his promotion in 1872 he had to resign from the Reichstag, but was re-elected in the replacement election. He was a member of the Reichstag until 1874.

As a poet, he wrote historical tragedies, festivals and novels.

literature

  • Franz Brümmer : German poet lexicon. Volume 1, Krüll, Eichstätt [et al.] 1876
  • Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon. Volume 1, Kleinmayr [ao], Klagenfurt [ao] 1953
  • Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 (with picture).
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 114-115.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 135, short biography p. 405.
  2. ↑ Specht, Fritz / Schwabe, Paul: 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. Carl Heymanns Verlag , Berlin 1904, p. 274
personal data
SURNAME Healed, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Genast, Wilhelm Karl Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet lawyer, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1887
Place of death Weimar