Wilhelm Schmieding (politician, 1879)

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Wilhelm Schmieding (born May 20, 1879 in Dortmund , † February 6, 1929 in Dortmund) was a Prussian civil servant. As regional director of the Free State of Waldeck , he was head of the executive (President) of this country during the Weimar Republic until shortly before it was incorporated into Prussia .

Life

Schmieding studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität , Heidelberg. In 1898 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . 1902 doctorate he became Dr. jur. He entered the Prussian civil service and in 1907 became a government assessor in the Berlin-Charlottenburg police headquarters . From 1909 he worked at the Kyritz district office . In 1912 he was appointed district administrator of Wildungen . In 1912 Schmieding became district administrator in the Eder district . From 1917 to 1919 he was a member of the Waldeck Landtag as a member of the national liberal parliamentary group.

After the November Revolution of 1918/19 he was a member of the DVP . From 1920 he was initially acting and from 1921 to 1929 full state director of Waldeck-Pyrmont. As head of the executive he was also a member of the Reichsrat .

During his term of office in 1921, the Waldeck-Pyrmont State Treaty with Prussia fell after the Pyrmont region was annexed to Prussia. In 1926 Schmieding refused to ban two right-wing extremist youth associations. Within the Prussian government, several considerations have been made about releasing him from his office. In 1928, after financial difficulties, the signing of the state treaty for the complete annexation of Waldeck to Prussia fell. After Schmieding's death on February 6, 1929, the state director's business was carried out by his previous deputy, Oberregierungsrat Ernst Herberg , before the state was incorporated into Prussian territory on April 1, 1929.

In 1927 he was made an honorary senator of the University of Marburg .

literature

  • Thomas Klein : Senior civil servant in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945 , Darmstadt and Marburg 1988.
  • Gerhard Menk : The end of the Free State of Waldeck. Possibilities and limits of small-state politics in the German Empire and Weimar Republic , 2nd edition Arolsen 1998.
  • Gerhard Menk: From Bismarckian to Liberal. The politician and teacher Otto Hufnagel in Waldeck and Frankfurt am Main , 2 vols. Marburg 2006.
  • Minutes of the Prussian State Ministry. Volume 11 / II, p. 689 digital version (PDF; 2.0 MB).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Death of Wilhelm Schmieding on February 6, 1929 in Dortmund (documented by the registry office Dortmund-Mitte I Reg. No. 264/1929).
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 64 , 912.