Wilhelm Meyer (industrialist)

Wilhelm Meyer, Member of the Bundestag (1912)

Wilhelm Meyer (born March 22, 1867 in Celle ; † April 29, 1929 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer , industrialist and national liberal member of the Reichstag.

Life

Meyer was the son of the entrepreneur Gerhard Lucas Meyer . He attended the Ernestinum Celle and the Kaiser Wilhelm and Ratsgymnasium Hanover . After graduating from high school, he began to study law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In the triple year he was reciprocated in the Corps Franconia Munich . After preparatory service in the Prussian Justice he was since 1896 Gerichtsassessor as and since 1899 lawyer admitted in Hannover.

From 1909 until the end of his life he was chairman of the Association of German Iron and Steel Manufacturers and a member of the board of directors of the Reich Association of German Industry . As the successor to his late father, he sat between 1917 and 1929 on the supervisory boards of the Peiner Walzwerk and the Ilseder Hütte .

He belonged to the German Reichstag as a member of the national liberal parliamentary group and as a member of the constituency of Hanover 15 ( Gifhorn - Peine ) between 1912 and 1918. In October 1928 he replaced Otto Schellknecht in the provincial parliament of the province of Hanover and remained there until the end of the electoral period as a member of the electoral district of Goslar-Stand and Land and the list of "house and property".

Meyer was married to actress Anna Glenk since 1914 . On the initiative of his wife, Meyer contributed significantly to the construction of the local city theater, the “Peiner Festsaal” in Peine. A memorial stone in Peine reminds of his work. The marriage resulted in a daughter, the author Anna Margret Janovicz (1917-2017). In April 2015, at the age of 98, she presented her book “Memories ... it was beautiful” in a Peine bookshop.

See also

• List of members of the Reichstag of the German Empire (13th electoral term)
• List of corps students in the Reichstag of the German Empire

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 242.

Web links

• Presentation of his memorial stone on the website of the city of Peine
• Wilhelm Meyer in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Wilhelm Meyer . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 106/514.
2. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Booklet 2. Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, Berlin 1913, p. 91. (= Statistics of the German Reich , Volume 250.)