Wilhelm Linz

Wilhelm Josef Richard Hubert Linz (born November 2, 1850 in Koblenz , † September 27, 1925 in Wiesbaden ) was a German lawyer and politician ( center ).

Linz attended grammar schools and Koblenz and Warendorf and studied law at the universities of Munich, Leipzig and Strasbourg. From June 13, 1874 he was a court trainee in Andernach, Düsseldorf and Koblenz. He completed his military service as a reserve lieutenant in the 2nd Westphalian Hussar Regiment No. 11. From November 26, 1879 he was court assessor in Koblenz and Ahrweiler, and from June 16, 1884 public prosecutor at the Trier public prosecutor's office. On October 18, 1886 he was acting district administrator in the district of Mayen , from July 20, 1887 he was definitely district administrator. On March 26, 1900 he was transferred to the Wiesbaden government, where he was director of the administrative court. After the outbreak of the First World War he was called up in September 1914 and served as first lieutenant in the Landwehr cavalry and chairman of the military hospital commission Langen-Schwalbach until its dissolution in August 1917. On April 21, 1921, he was retired as administrative court director.

Linz was a member of the center and since 1913 a board member of the center in the Prussian House of Representatives. In October 1920 he was made an honorary member of the Prussian Center Party. From 1892 to 1906 he was a member of the provincial parliament of the Rhine Province and from 1903 to November 1918 of the Prussian House of Representatives .

After the November Revolution , he was elected to the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly in 1919 . From May 26, 1919, he was parliamentary (sub-) state secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Justice. From October 1, 1919 to February 17, 1921 he was deputy representative of Prussia in the Reichsrat . From May 1921 to December 11, 1922 he was a member of the Prussian State Council for the province of Hessen-Nassau . From 1922 to September 27, 1925 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

Posa Claudius Linz is his uncle.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 , p. 97.