Wilhelm von Neitschütz

Wilhelm von Neitschütz (born December 26, 1801 in Königsberg ; † June 6, 1849 there ) was a Prussian lawyer and judge . From December 1848 to May 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and from 1849 a member of the first chamber of the Prussian state parliament .

Life

origin

Wilhelm Adolf Alexander von Neitschütz was born as the son of the active officer August von Neitschütz († October 12, 1818). The Neitschütz family was an old, originally Saxon noble family, which later also gained possession and prestige in East Prussia . His mother Wilhelmine was born in von Langenau. She was the stepdaughter of the Prussian Field Marshal Wilhelm Magnus von Brünneck and the sister-in-law of the Prussian statesman Theodor von Schön .

Professional background

In March 1820, Neitschütz began studying law at the Albertina in Königsberg. He was able to present a high school diploma with particularly good grades. After completing his studies, Neitschütz was accepted into the Prussian judicial service, until 1833 as a district judicial councilor in Königsberg and from 1833 to 1835 as a judge. He married Sylvia von Schön on May 20, 1833, and her family owned the Adlig Friedrichsgraben estate, not far from the Neitschütz family estate, Gut Wernershof. As early as 1835 Wilhelm von Neitschütz was district and city court director in Tapiau . On October 9, 1844, he was transferred to Königsberg, where he assumed the position of director of the Inquisitorium, comparable to today's senior public prosecutor's office .

In the election to the Frankfurt National Assembly, Neitschütz was nominated as deputy to District Administrator Kurt von Bardeleben in constituency 17 - he included the districts of Königsberg and Fischhausen - and was confirmed by the electors on May 10, 1848 . After the resignation of MP Bardeleben in November 1848, he received on November 24, 1848 a request from the Oberpräsident in Königsberg to travel to Frankfurt am Main immediately and to succeed him. Neitschütz replied two days later that he could not leave until November 29th. As early as December 9, 1848, he was one of the MPs in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt , but on that day he was described as absent from a vote without excuse. Only two days later, on December 11, 1848, did the incumbent President of the National Assembly announce that Wilhelm von Neitschütz from Königsberg had joined the assembly for von Bardeleben from Fischhausen. He counted himself on the political left, but officially remained non-attached .

In the months February to April of 1849 Neitschütz was absent from votes in the National Assembly, excused and unexcused, very often. When the emperor was elected on March 28, 1849, he was present and in the roll-call vote he voted for the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm IV. He later traveled to Berlin with the East Prussian deputy Ernst Friedrich Fabian von Saucken-Tarputschen , both of whom were transferred a mandate in the first chamber of the Prussian state parliament. He never returned to Frankfurt. As early as the beginning of 1849, he wrote a letter to his brother complaining of stomach problems, and in Berlin doctors also diagnosed a liver problem. He died on June 6, 1849 in Königsberg, at the age of 47, of typhus . Another companion of his, Otto von Keudell , reported in a letter from East Prussia we quietly escorted him to his grave .

family

He married Sylvia von Schön. The couple had at least one daughter:

• Marie Karoline Amelie Wilhelmine (* April 27, 1842; † August 26, 1891) ∞ Roland von Brünneck-Bellschwitz (* March 3, 1840; † September 21, 1918)

literature

• Bernhard-Maria Rosenberg: The East Prussian MPs in Frankfurt 1848/49. Biographical contributions to the history of political life in East Prussia. Grote, Berlin / Cologne 1970. Pages 93–96.

Web links

• Entry about Wilhelm von Neitschütz in the parliamentarian portal (BIOPARL)