Wilhelm Schenck zu Schweinsberg

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Wilhelm Freiherr Schenck zu Schweinsberg (1809–1867)
Wilhelm Schenck zu Schweinsberg, 1863.

Wilhelm Freiherr Schenck zu Schweinsberg (born January 26, 1809 in Fulda ; † August 3, 1867 in Schweinsberg ) was a German lawyer and liberal -minded administrative officer, head of government of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1839-1848) and 1848/1849 board member of the Hessian Foreign Ministry.

Origin and education

His parents were Ferdinand Schenck zu Schweinsberg (* 1765; † 1842) and his wife Christiane Charlotte Friederike Wilhelmine Treusch von Buttlar (* February 17, 1770; † April 26, 1832).

He attended the Lyceum Fridericianum in Kassel and the school in Marburg . He then studied from 1825 jurisprudence at the Universities of Marburg and Gottingen .

Profession and Politics

In 1829 he entered the civil service as a trainee lawyer at the Marburg Supreme Court. At the same time he read Roman law and Hessian civil law as a private lecturer at the university . In the July Revolution of 1830 , the citizens of Marburg elected him to command a civil battalion . In 1831 Wilhelm Schenck zu Schweinsberg became public prosecutor in the province of Hanau . Here, too, he was elected commander of a battalion of the Civil Guard. His contact with the leading minister of the electoral state at that time, Ludwig Hassenpflug , who recommended him to the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as head of government ( conducting privy council ) in 1839 , as Hassenpflug himself from this position after a short period of service in the Grand Duchy must date from the following years Luxembourg changes. Wilhelm Schenck zu Schweinsberg then held this office from 1839 to 1848.

In 1848 Wilhelm Schenck zu Schweinsberg became provisional director of the Hessian Foreign Ministry in the "March Ministry" under the leading minister Bernhard Eberhard , former mayor of Hanau , whom he knew from his time in Hanau. Together with the other ministers of the “March Ministry” he got into a violent dispute with the sovereign, the then “co-regent” (Prince Regent) and later Elector Friedrich Wilhelm , who tried to boycott this “revolutionary” government. B. simply did not process the files sent to him - and dismissed them as soon as possible in September 1849. However, since no replacement could be found for the ministers so quickly, he had to keep the government in office until 1850. Only Wilhelm Schenck zu Schweinsberg, whom the elector considered a “radical”, was so hated by the sovereign that he had to leave immediately.

In 1850 he was elected member of the Union parliament in Erfurt for Kassel and was elected by the latter to be its vice-president, without ever being given the chance to exercise the office because of the short life of this institution. In 1867 he was elected to the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation as a member of the constituency of Kassel 8 (Hanau) . He was also from 1849 to 1850 and from 1862 to 1866 a member of the Electoral Hesse state parliament .

After leaving the government, Wilhelm Schenck zu Schweinsberg was put on hold . Afterwards he only had subordinate tasks in the electoral state: in 1853 he became director of the Haina State Hospital , and in 1865 the last director of the Hanau Province . After the downfall of the electoral state caused by the German war , the Prussian military administration appointed him President of the government and consistory in Hanau in 1866 , which was dissolved in 1868. In 1867, Wilhelm Schenck zu Schweinsberg was scheduled to be President of Wiesbaden's government, but died before his appointment.

family

He married Elisabeth Zimmermann on October 9, 1833 (* 1810 - November 2, 1875). The couple had several children:

  • Christian Marie Sophie Frederike (born August 13, 1834), lady-in-waiting
  • Amalie Lillie (Emilie) (born June 9, 1836)
  • Marie Sophie Elisabeth (born April 13, 1839) ⚭ 1865 Wilhelm Carl Louis Emil Milchling von Schoenstadt
  • Alexander Moritz Ernst Carl Aloys (* June 21, 1843) ⚭ Emilie Luise Fanny Johanna Ritz von Scheuertschloss (* January 29, 1857)

Publications

  • Attempt to represent the service in Kurhessen. 1831.
  • Report on the administrative results for the years 1840 to 1842 in the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. 1843.
  • Report on the administrative results for the years 1843 to 1846 in the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. 1847 ?.
  • (Anonymous): About the lower nobility and their political position in Germany. Stuttgart 1842

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of baronial houses, 1894, forty- fourth year, p.793
  • Harald Höffner: Kurhessens Ministerialvorstand the constitutional period 1831-1866 . Dissertation. Giessen 1981, p. 296ff.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 329.
  • 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 , No. 753.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 152.
  2. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 289, short biography p. 462.
  3. ↑ Thomas Klein: Hessen-Nassau , Volume 11 of the series: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of the German Administrative History 1815-1945 , 1979, ISBN 3-87969-126-6 , p. 106.
personal data
SURNAME Schenck zu Schweinsberg, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schenck zu Schweinsberg, Wilhelm Walther Ludwig Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1867
Place of death Schweinsberg