Wilhelm Heinrich Kewenig

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Wilhelm Heinrich Kewenig (born January 19, 1818 in Saarbrücken , † September 16, 1889 in Trier ) was a district court president and member of the Prussian House of Representatives .

Life

Kewenig was the son of a building inspector. He attended the Royal High School in Trier , which was headed by Johann Hugo Wyttenbach . In September 1834 he received his certificate of maturity. In the winter semester of 1834/35 he enrolled at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn in the field of law .

In the winter semester of 1835/36 he lived with his former classmates Christian Hermann Wienenbrügge and Karl Marx in "Joseph-Straße 764" (today Joseph-Straße 29/31). In the summer semester of 1836 he attended the lecture “European International Law” with Eduard Puggé together with Karl Marx . He also took a lecture with August Wilhelm Schlegel .

In 1847 he was employed as state procurator at the Trier district court . Later he was chief procurator at the regional court in Aachen . In 1864 he was appointed president of the Trier regional court.

The Catholics put Kewenig up for election in the fifth electoral term of the Prussian House of Representatives in the Wittlich - Berncastel constituency of the Prussian House of Representatives. The district president of Trier Wilhelm Sebaldt was angry because Kewenig did not support the conservatives.

On October 1, 1879, the Saarbrücken regional court district was formed in the Cologne Higher Regional Court district with the local courts Baumholder, Birkenfeld, Grumbach, Lebach, Neunkirchen, Ottweiler, Saarbrücken, Saarlouis, Sankt Wendel, Sulzbach, Tholey and Völklingen. Wilhelm Heinrich Kewenig was the first president of the regional court in Saarbrücken . In 1888, when he was seventy, he was retired. Kewenig died on September 16, 1889 in Trier.

His brother was Alexander Kewenig (notary and counsel). He received his Abitur in Trier in 1840 and died there in 1898.

literature

  • Royal Friedrich Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Trier 1563–1913. Festschrift to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the institution on 6th – 8th October 1913 . Trier 1913, Appendix p. 32. Internet Archive
  • Manfred Schöncke: “A happy year in Bonn”? What we know about Karl Marx's first year at university. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode . Argument, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-88619-745-X , pp. 239-255. Here p. 242, 247 and 252.
  • Heinz Monz: Kewenig, Wilhelm Heinrich . In: Trier Biographical Lexicon . Overall processing: Heinz Monz. Verlag der Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz 2000, p. 218, ISBN 3-931014-49-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Later (1896) renamed Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium .
  2. ^ Royal Friedrich Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Trier 1563–1913 .
  3. ↑ "Here I spoke to several who asked about you, and from many quarters I wished me luck that H. Wienenbrugge was your friend. I am really eager to get to know him, and I should be very happy if you both visit us at Easter and, of course, take care of us together. For me this would be especially a proof of his friendship with you ”. ( Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx. November 18, 1835. Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) Third section. Correspondence . Volume 1. Karl Marx Friedrich Engels. Correspondence up to April 1846. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 291.)
  4. ^ Christian Herrmann Wienenbrügge in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  5. ↑ “Official directory of the staff and students in the winter half-year 1835–36. Bonn 1835 ".
  6. ^ Eberhard Gockel: Karl Marx in Bonn. Old addresses rediscovered. A contribution to the 2000 year Bonn anniversary and the bicentenaire of the French Revolution . University Press Edition, Overath near Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-924953-06-6 , pp. 9, 11 f. and 18.
  7. ↑ Manfred Schöncke, p. 247.
  8. ↑ Registration form Kewenig, registration form Marx. (Archive of Bonn University)
  9. ↑ Manfred Schöncke, p. 253.
  10. ↑ Helmut Deckert: Karl Marx and his fellow students as a listener of Schlegel in Bonn . In: Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Prof. Dr. phil. Hans Lülfing on November 24, 1966 . (= 83rd supplement to the Zentralblatt für Libraries ). Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1966, p. 46.
  11. ↑ Augsburger Zeitung , Munich 1864. Supplement to No. 218 of August 5, 1864, p. 3546.
  12. ↑ The elections took place on November 23, 1858. The electoral term lasted from January 12, 1859 to June 5, 1861.
  13. ^ Hansjürgen Schierbaum: The political elections in the Eifel and Moselle districts of the Trier administrative district 1849–1867 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1960, p. 243.
  14. ↑ From 1859 to 1860 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency of Daun - Prüm - Bitburg . Heinz Monz writes: Kewenig, Wilhelm Heinrich .
  15. ↑ Hansjürgen Schierbaum: The political elections in the Eifel and Moselle districts of the Trier administrative district 1849-1867 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1960, pp. 123 and 123.
  16. ↑ Royal Friedrich Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Trier 1563-1913 , Appendix, p. 46.
personal data
SURNAME Kewenig, Wilhelm Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION President of the German regional court in Saarbrücken, member of the Prussian House of Representatives
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1889
Place of death trier