Wilhelm Gottlieb Magdeburg

Wilhelm Gottlieb Magdeburg (born April 29, 1801 in Hachenburg ; † March 6, 1875 in Wiesbaden ) was a German lawyer and politician . He was a member of the First Chamber of the Nassau State Parliament (1857–1863).

biography

Magdeburg was born as the son of the bailiff , judiciary and court judge Johann August Leberecht Magdeburg (* June 2, 1768 - October 29, 1839) and his wife Eleonore Caroline Sophie nee Valentini (* April 1, 1775; † June 20, 1826). He attended high schools in Idstein , Weilburg and Wiesbaden high schools . From 1818 he studied law and political science in Gießen and Göttingen . During his studies in 1818 he became a member of the Gießen General Burschenschaft Germania. As their spokesman , he was also the head of the exodus of students to Gleiberg after bloody clashes between students and members of the military. In 1822 he took his exam and became an accessist at the Nassau General Domain Directorate in Giessen. In 1829 he became a domain councilor and in 1830 a ministerial councilor .

On April 27, 1828 he married Henriette Emilie born Stahl in Idstein (April 27, 1806 in Idstein; † October 21, 1892 in Wicker ), the daughter of the council treasurer Johann Anton Stahl and his wife Apollonia Elisabethe Johanette born Siegert.

He was then in Berlin as the Nassau representative during the negotiations on joining the German Customs Union , which were successfully concluded in 1835. As a representative of the government at the railway committee in Wiesbaden, he was also involved in the construction of the Taunus railway . In 1832 he became the government director of the Nassau state government, in 1836 a privy councilor and in 1842 president of the general tax office. From 1857 to 1863 he was a moderately liberal member of the First Chamber of the Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau. In 1857 he was a representative of the Countess von Kielmannsegg and from 1858 to 1863 as an elected member of the group of landowners for constituency 1 (Dillenburg, Herborn, Rennerod, Marienberg, Hachenburg) member of the state parliament.

Honors

• Prussian Order of the Red Eagle , 2nd class
• Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order , Commander 1st class

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume 1: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 9-10.
• Marko Kreutzmann: The higher officials of the German customs union. A bureaucratic functional elite between national interests and interstate integration (1834–1871) (= series of publications of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 86). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-36005-7 , p. 271.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. 48, 7). Published on behalf of the Hessian Parliament. Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 251.
• Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1: Cornelia Rösner: The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. 59 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 16). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 , pp. 109–110.

Web links

• Magdeburg, Wilhelm Gottlieb. Hessian biography. (As of April 29, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).