Wilhelm Selkmann

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Gerhard Heinrich Bernhard Wilhelm Selkmann (born March 7, 1818 in Krapendorf ; † April 10, 1913 in Wiesbaden ) was a German ministerial official and parliamentarian in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .

Life

Selkmann was the son of the lawyer Johann Bernard Josef Selkmann and Anna Caroline geb. Wesselmann. After attending the Carolinum grammar school in Osnabrück , Selkmann completed the philosophical propaedeutic course at the academy in Münster from 1835 to 1836 . He then studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1837 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . In 1838 he joined the Corps Guestphalia Göttingen . In 1840 he took off the tentamen. In 1842 he became an auditor at the Abbehausen office as well as a provisional and in 1845, after passing his legal exam, he became a permanent secretary at the Church Commission in Oldenburg.

In 1845, Selkmann moved to the government of the Principality of Birkenfeld as government secretary and lawyer for the poor . In the autumn of 1849 he returned to Oldenburg and was appointed Ministerialassessor at the State Ministry there, where he worked in particular on the reorganization of internal administration. In 1850 he was appointed a member of the auditing authority in Oldenburg and in 1856 promoted to Ministerialrat . As a member of the Law Commission in 1858 he was part of the editorial commission for the new Oldenburg Penal Code. he was also a member of the preparatory commission for the administrative reform of 1868, with which the modern ministerial constitution was introduced in the Grand Duchy. In 1861, in addition to his other duties, he was chairman of the recruiting board.

In 1869 Selkmann was appointed lecturing council in the Department of the Interior. At the same time he was a consultant at the Department of Justice and a member of the commission for the exercise of state rights vis-à-vis the Catholic Church. Selkmann was a deputy member of the supervisory board of the Oldenburgische Landesbank since 1872 and a full member since 1875 . In 1876 he was appointed to the State Council. In addition, he became chairman of the homeland commission in 1882. In 1888 he resigned from the State Ministry with the title of Privy Councilor of State and moved to Berlin in order to be able to devote himself fully to representing Oldenburg in the Federal Council. He retired on April 1, 1901 and last lived in Wiesbaden .

MP

After the German Revolution of 1848/49 , Selkmann was also politically active. He belonged to the Oldenburg State Parliament in 1848/49, 1851/52 and 1857–1869 . He was considered a moderately liberal MP and worked politically in particular with Maximilian Heinrich Rüder .

In 1849 he took part in the Gotha assembly . In January 1850 he was together with Rüder and Carl Zedelius a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament as a member of electoral district 3 of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (Delmenhorst, Vechta, Cloppenburg). He belonged to the right-wing liberal faction of the constitutional party, which formed the left of parliament due to the lack of left-wing liberal and democratic MPs.

With his candidacy as a national liberal for the Reichstag of the North German Confederation in 1867 and 1871, he was unsuccessful. From March 13, 1872 to December 31, 1887 he was deputy authorized representative and from January 1, 1888 to March 31, 1901 authorized representative of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg to the Federal Council (German Empire) . In 1878/79 he was a staunch opponent of Otto von Bismarck's protective tariff policy .

family

Selkmann married Florentine geb. Zumloh († 1926). Their daughter Ida (* 1866) married Erich von Falkenhayn (1861–1922), who later became General of the Infantry , Minister of War and Chief of the General Staff , in 1886 .

Awards

  • Knight's Cross, Class II, 1860
  • Knight's Cross, 1st Class, 1867
  • Chapter Knight, 1875
  • Commander in Chief, 1878
  • Capitular Comturship, 1884
  • Honorary Grand Commander, 1892
  • Capitular Grand Commander, 1895
  • Cross of Honor with the Golden Crown, 1900

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 112/416
  2. ↑ a b Kösener corps lists 1910, 69/262
personal data
SURNAME Selkmann, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Selkmann, Gerhard Heinrich Bernhard Wilhelm (full name); Selckmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative and ministerial official and member of parliament in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Krapendorf
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1913
Place of death Wiesbaden