Wilhelm Johannes Wentzel

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Wilhelm Johannes Wentzel (born April 24, 1852 in Hamburg ; † June 23, 1919 there ) was a German lawyer and real estate agent .

Life

Wentzel was a son of the Hamburg real estate agent Adolph Emil Wentzel (1826–1918) and his first wife Elise Adele, née Bieling (1832–1873).

He studied law at the universities in Bonn , Heidelberg and Göttingen . In 1871 he became a member of the Corps Palatia Bonn . On July 18, 1874, under the dean's office of Johann Heinrich Thöl , Wentzel was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. He was in Hamburg in the company Dr. Wentzel & Gutkaese , later in the company W. Johannes Wentzel Dr. active as a house broker.

Wentzel was a member of the Hamburg parliament from 1895 to 1913 . He had been elected by the notables and was initially a member of the right-wing group. In 1906 he was one of the opponents of the planned changes to the electoral law, which were controversial at the time and were referred to as electoral theft. That is why he resigned from the right-wing faction together with Carl Wilhelm Petersen , Johann Hinrich Garrels and Carl Braband . Together with other opponents of the right to vote, they founded the faction of the United Liberals , to which Wentzel belonged from then on. He was also a member of the college of the poor and an elder of the Patriotic Society of 1765 .

Wilhelm Johannes Wentzel married Marie Margarethe Clara Staacke (* 1853) on June 24, 1875. The marriage resulted in three sons and two daughters.

literature

  • Bernhard Koerner (ed.): German gender book . 27th volume. Starke, Görlitz 1914, p. 268 .

Web links

Some photographs by Wilhelm Johannes Wentzel in the holdings of the Hessian State Archive Darmstadt :

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Rügemer: Kösener corps lists from 1798 to 1910 . No. 375 (25) . Publishing house of the Academic monthly books, Starnberg near Munich 1910, p. 79 .
  2. News from the K. Society of Sciences and the Georg August University from 1875 . Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, Göttingen 1875, p. 293 ( online ).
  3. Fab. Landau: The Hamburg citizenship . Eckart & Messtorff, Hamburg 1898, p. 18 .
  4. ^ Frank-Michael Wiegand: Die Notabeln: Investigations into the history of the electoral law and the elected citizenship in Hamburg 1859-1919 . Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-923356-14-5 , p. 210 .