Wilhelm Hayen

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Heinrich Wilhelm Ludwig Hayen (born August 10, 1834 in Oldenburg ; † June 26, 1918 there ) was a German lawyer and secret senior church councilor .

Life and work

Wilhelm Hayen, son of an appellate judge and later president of the consistory, studied law in Heidelberg, Tübingen, Berlin and Göttingen after graduating from high school in Oldenburg . During his time at the universities in southern Germany, he used the semester break to travel far to Switzerland, France, Spain and Italy; in Göttingen he became a member of the Hannovera fraternity . He passed the state examination in Oldenburg. He then joined the judicial service of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and was initially an assistant judge at the Varel Supreme Court . Later he was a member of the Varel Public Prosecutor's Office; In 1874 he was appointed magistrate in Wildeshausen and received the title of judicial councilor.

Two years later he switched to church service and became a secular member of the upper church council and the high school college of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . He played a key role in the amendment of canon law in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg in 1888. In 1890 he was promoted to the Secret Council of Churches and in 1904 to the Secret Upper Council of Churches. This activity resulted in fundamental publications on canon law of the Oldenburg regional church .

In addition, Wilhelm Hayen was chairman of the board of the deaconess mother house "Elisabethstift" in Oldenburg for a long time. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Association for Archeology and Regional History in Oldenburg and wrote articles on historical and social issues relating to local events. He achieved a treatise of general interest by evaluating the diaries of his father Heinrich Wilhelm Hayen (1791-1854), Vice President of the Oldenburg Higher Appeal Court, who studied law during the time when Oldenburg and all of north-west Germany belonged to France.

Wilhelm Hayen was awarded the Knight's Cross of Honor 1st Class of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg for his services .

Publications (selection)

  • Oldenburg Church Law. Regulations and decisions for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Duchy of Oldenburg , Schulze, Oldenburg 1888
  • Collection of regulations and decisions for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Duchy of Oldenburg for use in the church communities , Littmann, Oldenburg 1911
  • An Oldenburg law student 100 years ago , in: Yearbook for the History of the Duchy of Oldenburg , Volume 21, Stalling, Oldenburg 1913

literature

  • Go Oberkirchenrat a. D. Hayen † . Oldenburg Church Gazette. On behalf of the Oldenburg General Predigerverein, Vol. 24, No. 14 (July 10, 1918), p. 1
  • Go Oberkirchenrat Hayen †. Oldenburger Sonntagsblatt 1918, p. 212 f.
  • Publications of the Lower Saxony archive administration, inventories and smaller publications of the State Archives Oldenburg, issue 40 "Staatsdienerverzeichnis 1859-1930" (1994), p. 108
  • Henning Tegtmeyer : List of members of the fraternity of Hannovera Göttingen, 1848–1998 , Düsseldorf 1998, page 29

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.oldenburger-landesverein.de/index.php?section=verein&action=geschichte
  2. ↑ ″ Heinrich Wilhelm Hayen: (1791-1854); the life path of an oldenburg state servant in the Biedermeier period ″, Oldenburg family history, Wolfgang Martens, Oldenburg company for family history, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Hayen, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hayen, Heinrich Wilhelm Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and secret senior church councilor
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldenburg)
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1918
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldenburg)