Wilhelm von Massow (politician)

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Wilhelm von Massow (born August 31, 1802 in Berlin , † September 24, 1867 in Rohr , Rummelsburg district ) was a Prussian ministerial official, manorial estate owner and politician. He had been a member of the Prussian mansion for life from 1854 .

Life

He came from the Pomeranian aristocratic von Massow family and was the sixth and youngest son of Marshal Valentin von Massow (* 1752; † 1817) and his wife Charlotte Auguste Johanne Luise Countess von Blumenthal (* 1766; † 1835), daughter of the Prussian minister Joachim Christian von Blumenthal . His brother Valentin von Massow (* 1793; † 1854) rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the Prussian army, his brother Ludwig von Massow (* 1794; † 1859) became minister of the royal house.

Wilhelm von Massow attended the Friedrichswerder high school in Berlin from 1814 . From 1820 he studied at the University of Göttingen and at the University of Berlin . He entered the Prussian civil service in 1823 and became an assessor at the Court of Appeal in 1830 . In 1834 he became district administrator of the Niederbarnim district , but in 1836 he moved to Berlin as head of the ministerial, military and building commission . In 1842 he became a lecturer in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior , and in 1845 he was given the title of a Secret Upper Government Council . The changes that followed the March Revolution in Berlin in 1848 did not please him, so that he resigned from the ministry in July 1848. He received his formal departure from civil service in 1854 and was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class with Oak Leaves on this occasion .

From his father's inheritance, Wilhelm von Massow, the youngest son, had received the Rohr manor in the Rummelsburg district of the Pomerania region and other goods when the estate was divided in 1839 . After retiring from civil service, he moved to Rohr and managed his estates.

In 1852 Massow was elected to the first chamber of the Prussian state parliament. When the Prussian mansion took its place , Massow became a member of the Prussian mansion for life in 1854 upon presentation of the old and fortified property in the Duchy of Wenden . As a member of the Stahl faction, he took an active part in the work of the manor house.

Massow was a legal knight of the Order of St. John . Previously, during the period when the Order of St. John was abolished in 1835 , he had been awarded the Royal Prussian Order of St. John .

Wilhelm von Massow was first married to Laura Karoline, born Countess von Wartensleben (* 1815, † 1849). The marriage had four children. After her death in 1852 he married Julie Wilhelmine , née von Behr (* 1825, † 1901) for the second time . With the Psalms Association she founded in 1862 and the Ut omnes unum prayer association founded in 1878, she was committed to the unity of Christians.

See also

literature

  • Paul Hermann Adolf von Massow: News about the sex of those von Massow. Mittler, Berlin 1878, pp. 203-207, no. 385 ( online ).

Footnotes

  1. ^ Yearbook of the German Nobility . Volume 3, 1899, pp. 212, 218 ( online ).
  2. ↑ E. David (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian manor house . Berlin 1911, p. 242 ( online ).
  3. ^ Yearbook of the German Nobility . Volume 3, 1899, pp. 218-219 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Stephan Sehlke: teachers-pastors Patriots. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, p. 248 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Massow, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian ministerial official, manor owner and politician, MdH
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1867
Place of death Rohr , Rummelsburg district