Wilhelm von Hammerstein

Wilhelm Karl Konrad Freiherr von Hammerstein , actually von Hammerstein-Loxten (born May 6, 1808 in Kastorf , † September 1, 1872 in Neustrelitz ) was a German politician . Among other things, he was finance and interior minister in the Kingdom of Hanover and state minister of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .

Career

Wilhelm von Hammerstein was born in Kastorf , Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg . His father was the landowner and professional soldier Christian von Hammerstein (1769–1850) and had been married to Dorothea Agnies Sophie von Plato (1771–1858) since April 3, 1793 . His mother was a daughter of the district administrator Otto Ernst von Plato auf Grabow. He had six sisters and three brothers.

Wilhelm von Hammerstein attended the Knight Academy in Lüneburg , where he graduated from high school in 1824. He then studied law in Göttingen until 1827. He was an auditor from 1828 and after a judge's examination in 1831 an assessor in Bodenteich . In 1833 he was assessor and 1840 Government at the Landdrostei Lüneburg .

In 1843 Wilhelm von Hammerstein became a lecturer and in 1848 General Secretary in the Hanoverian Ministry of the Interior. From December 1850 to November 1851 he was Minister of Finance and Trade of the Kingdom of Hanover. During his tenure, he contributed to the conclusion of the Hanover-Prussian Customs Union Treaty. From April 1852 to November 1853 he was Minister of the Interior. After working as a bailiff and first official of the Verden (Aller) office , he was again Minister of the Interior from December 1862 to October 1865, now as a secret councilor .

After Hammerstein had been Prime Minister from 1862, he was Landdrost in Osnabrück from 1865 to 1866 . In 1867 he was elected to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation as a member of the constituency of Hanover 5 ( Melle - Diepholz ) .

After the annexation of Hanover by Prussia, Hammerstein became the leading minister in Mecklenburg-Strelitz . From October 17, 1868 to September 1, 1872 he was Minister of State and thus chairman of the State Ministry and the state government of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In this function, from 1870 he also administered the state's grand ducal feudal chamber and was Chancellor of the Order of the Wendish Crown .

In addition to a treatise on the Bardengau , the humanistically educated Wilhelm von Hammerstein published several articles in the yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , of which he was a corresponding member from 1868 to 1872.

He died after a heart attack at the age of 64 in Neustrelitz.

A portrait photograph is kept in the Lower Saxony State Archives .

family

In 1836 he married Julia Freifrau von dem Knesebeck (1811–1889), daughter of General Friedrich August Wilhelm von dem Knesebeck . The marriage resulted in four children, including the later Prussian Minister of the Interior Hans von Hammerstein-Loxten and the Schwerin Ministerialrat Bernhard von Hammerstein (1853-1907)

Works

The Bardengau. A historical study of its circumstances and the Billunger's property. Hahn, Hanover 1869–1926.

Awards

1868: Grand Cross of the House Order of the Wendish Crown
1868: Red Eagle Order 1st class
1868: Wilhelms Order of the Electorate of Saxony, 1st class

Web links

Literature about Wilhelm von Hammerstein in the state bibliography MV
Hammerstein: Probable location of the trading place Schezla, mentioned by Charlemagne
Wilhelm von Hammerstein in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Wilhelm Hartmann Hammerstein, barons of. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 7, 1966, pp. 594-595.
^ Hans-Jürgen Vogtherr: Hammerstein, Christian Freiherr von . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , page 157.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Hammerstein-Loxten, Wilhelm Carl Conrad Freiherr von In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: Landesregierungen and Minister in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 152.
^ 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. 118.
↑ 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. 152, short biography p. 411.
↑ Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Adels . Volume 2, WT Bruer, Berlin 1898, p. 307.
↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3810 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hammerstein, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hammerstein-Loxten, Wilhelm Karl Konrad Freiherr von (full name); Hammerstein-Loxten, Wilhelm Carl Conrad Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician, Prime Minister in the Kingdom of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kastorf
DATE OF DEATH	September 1, 1872
Place of death	Neustrelitz

[ndb-1] A ^b ^c Wilhelm Hartmann Hammerstein, barons of. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 7, 1966, pp. 594-595.

[2] Hans-Jürgen Vogtherr: Hammerstein, Christian Freiherr von . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 12 - 2006. ISBN 3-529-02560-7 , page 157.

[lum152-3] Hammerstein-Loxten, Wilhelm Carl Conrad Freiherr von In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: Landesregierungen and Minister in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 152.

[4] 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. 118.

[5] 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. 152, short biography p. 411.

[6] Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Adels . Volume 2, WT Bruer, Berlin 1898, p. 307.

[7] Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3810 .