Wilhelm Hengstenberg (Upper President)

Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Wilhelm Hengstenberg (born November 24, 1853 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † December 16, 1927 in Wiesbaden ) was a German lawyer and administrative officer .

Life

As the son of the theologian Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg , Wilhelm Hengstenberg studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg after graduating from high school . In 1875 he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia . After the first state examination in law , he became a trainee lawyer in Wiesbaden in 1878 . In 1881 he joined the internal administration of the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1884 he went to Frankfurt (Oder) as a government assessor .

Since 1887 district administrator of the Lauban district , he joined the provincial government of the province of Silesia in Wroclaw in 1899 as senior president . In 1902 he became president of the Wiesbaden region . In 1905 he was appointed Undersecretary of State to the Prussian State Ministry . In 1907 he was Governor- in Hesse-Nassau . On September 1, 1917, at the age of 64, he was retired.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Hengstenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography (bbaw.de), p. 392 (PDF; 2.9 MB)
• Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874–1945 (territorial.de)
• Hengstenberg, Leopold Wilhelm. Hessian biography. (As of January 16, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 120 , 756
2. ^ Province of Hessen-Nassau , on territorial.de
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Prussian province Hessen-Nassau. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).