Wilhelm von Hegel

Eduard Wilhelm (since 1909: von) Hegel (* December 4, 1849 in Berlin ; † January 31, 1925 in Merseburg ) was a Prussian government official and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Hegel, a son of the Prussian state officials Immanuel Hegel , grandson of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and nephew of the historian Karl Hegel was during his studies in Göttingen in 1869 a member of the Black Castle Bund - connection Burschenschaft Germania . From 1878 he was a government assessor in the state administration of the Diocese of Paderborn . In 1881 he switched to the government in Poznan and from 1882 was an unskilled worker in the Ministry of Culture. From 1886 to 1890 he was district administrator of the Jerichow I district in Burg , before moving to the Ministry of Culture as a secret councilor in 1890. In 1893 he was promoted to the Secret Upper Government Council and in 1895 moved to Gumbinnen as President of the Government . 1905 he was appointed as District President of Olsztyn called and from 1908 to 1917 he was Oberpräsident the province of Saxony , where he for real 1913 Privy was promoted.

From 1887 to 1890 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency administrative district Magdeburg 3 Jerichow I , Jerichow II and the German Conservative Party .

In 1909 Hegel was raised to the nobility. He spent his retirement in Merseburg, where he was also appointed canon .

Hegel continued his father's commitment to free works of Protestantism. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Inner Mission and was one of the founders of the German Evangelical Mission Aid in 1913 , for which he took part in the Kassel pre-conference for the establishment of the German Evangelical Church Federation and in the German Evangelical Church Congress in 1919 . From 1919 to 1925 he also worked as chairman of the Evangelical Press Association for Germany .

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE). 2nd edition, Volume 4 Görres – Hittorp, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-25034-7 , pp. 553 f.

Web links

• Hegel in the database of the members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Wilhelm Hegel . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 178 No. 82.
2. ↑ Ursula Röper, Carola Jüllig: The power of charity. One hundred and fifty years of internal mission and diakonia 1848-1998 . Kohlhammer, Mainz 2007, p. 16.
3. ↑ PDF file , p. 2.
4. ^ Siegfried Hermle (ed.): Handbook of the German Evangelical Churches 1918 to 1949: Organs - Offices - Associations - Personnel. Volume 1: Supraregional institutions. Edited by Heinz Boberach , Carsten Nicolaisen and Ruth Papst (= work on contemporary church history 18). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-55784-6 , pp. 23, 43.
5. ↑ Hans Hafenbrack : History of the Evangelical Press Service. Evangelical press work from 1848 to 1981 (= Evangelical press research, Volume 5). Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-7858-0488-1 , p. 133.