Wilhelm Hollenberg

Wilhelm Hollenberg (born September 11, 1820 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † October 2, 1912 in Godesberg ) was a German teacher , theologian and politician .

Life

Born the son of a baker , Hollenberg studied theology in Halle , Berlin and Bonn after attending grammar school in Duisburg . After he had already got to know the fraternity member Dietrich Wilhelm Landfermann as his school director during his school days , he became a member of the Fridericia Bonn fraternity during his studies in 1842 . He passed his exams in Koblenz and served as a one-year-old in Düsseldorf , where he became a teacher at the Luisenschule , a secondary school for girls .

In 1846 he became a teacher at the high school in Burscheid and then from 1848 worked as a parish administrator in Schlebusch and later in Hückeswagen . In 1850 he went to Koblenz as a field preacher and was ordained in the same year . When he returned to Burscheid, he worked as an assistant preacher and second pastor . From 1853 to 1897 he had a pastor's position in Waldbröl , where he also worked as a district school administrator. From 1873 to 1882 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the National Liberal Party . In the 1870s he was on the board of the Waldbröler Volksbank. He also worked as a district school inspector. From 1886 he was superintendent of the Aggersynod . In 1892 he participated in the establishment of the Evangelical Provincial Sanatorium for Incurable Mental Illnesses, which was inaugurated in 1897, and became its managing director.

In 1899 he retired and moved to Bonn. He wrote essays that dealt with the elementary school system.

literature

• 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. 385-386.