Wilhelm Keudel (politician)

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Weigand Wilhelm Keudel (born February 15, 1818 in Liederbach ; † after 1851) was a German politician and member of the Hessian state parliament.

Keudel was the son of the Hessian forest treasurer, captain in the 21st Landregiment and economist Johann Jost Keudel (1771-1826) and his wife Maria Catharina nee Zinser, the daughter of the Liederbach teacher Peter Zinser. Weigand, who was a Protestant denomination, married Elise Luise Christine Caroline Haberkorn (* 1818), the daughter of Georg Karl Haberkorn (1770-1835) and Elise née Voltzing.

Keudel studied forest sciences from May 1836 at the University of Giessen . He worked as an economist and was the owner of the Oberhof and then the Herrnmühle in Storndorf from 1837 to 1845 . From 1841 to 1851 he was the owner of the Unterhof there. In 1851 he had to file for bankruptcy and emigrated to Williamsburg (Virginia) in the USA.

After the March Revolution , the members of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse were freely elected for the first time. Keudel was an elected member for constituency 3 Homberg and Alsfeld from 1849 to 1850.

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 498.

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SURNAME Keudel, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keudel, Weigand Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and member of the Hessian state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Liederbach
DATE OF DEATH after 1851