Wilhelm von Schrötter

Wilhelm von Schrötter (born March 2, 1810 in Königsberg , † January 29, 1876 in Angnitte near Prussian Holland ) was a Prussian lawyer and district administrator . From February to May 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

family

Wilhelm Ludwig Hermann Freiherr von Schrötter was the son of Karl Wilhelm Freiherr von Schrötter . The noble von Schrötter family was raised on March 13, 1700 by Emperor Leopold I to the hereditary status of magnates and barons of the Kingdom of Hungary and all other Austrian hereditary lands. A royal Prussian recognition of the baron status took place on January 27, 1716. Wilhelm's father Karl Wilhelm (born April 9, 1748) was the heir to Rundwiese and Krören. He died on December 2, 1819 as chief president of the Higher Regional Court in East Prussia . Karl Wilhelm married on August 2, 1795 in his third wife Katharine Sophie Albertine Caroline (born February 18, 1770), born Countess and Viscountess of Dohna- Schlobitten , the mother of William.

Professional background

Schrötter began studying law at the Albertina in Königsberg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , which he successfully completed in 1834. He was accepted into the Prussian judicial service and a year later he was appointed higher regional court assessor in Königsberg. In 1845, Schrötter became the Landrat of the Prussian Holland district as the landlord of the Angnitte estate .

In the election to the Frankfurt National Assembly, Schrötter was elected deputy to the MP Otto Ungerbühler . The electors of constituency 14 - he included the districts of Prussian Holland and Mohrungen - expressed their confidence in him. After Otto Ungerbühler had resigned his mandate in the National Assembly on December 28, 1848 , Schrötter was asked by the Oberpräsident in Königsberg on January 13, 1849 to succeed him immediately. In a report from the Upper President to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, it is said that District Administrator von Schrötter would leave for Frankfurt am Main on January 29th . On February 5, 1849, he was present for the first time at a meeting in Frankfurt's Paulskirche , as its incumbent president announced on February 9. He officially remained non-attached , but often voted with the Right Center. On February 12th, he supported a motion to amend certain drafts of the new municipal law to be created. He wanted to make the exercise of active and passive voting rights dependent on the tax level. During the Easter days he made a trip to Heidelberg . In the election of Friedrich Wilhelm IV. As German Emperor, he voted yes, but together with 14 other members of parliament he issued a statement for the record in which concerns were raised about the legality of the election. In the vote on April 11, 1849, on the motion to adhere to the imperial constitution under all circumstances, Schröttinger was absent without excuse. He was increasingly dissatisfied with the work of the National Assembly and signed a declaration of resignation on May 11, 1849, together with three other MPs. It was read a day later in the National Assembly.

After the end of his parliamentary work, he remained district administrator in the district of Preussisch Holland and administered his estate Angnitte. He became a legal knight of the Order of St. John and died on January 29, 1876, at the age of 65, on his country estate in Angnitte.

Marriage and offspring

Wilhelm von Schrötter married Friederike Marie Caroline Wilhelmine Countess and Countess of Dohna-Schlobitten on January 19, 1846 (* May 14, 1818 - January 8, 1848). The couple had a daughter, Amelie Friederike Caroline Freiin von Schrötter (born November 29, 1846 in Königsberg, † July 20, 1902 in Berlin). She later became the owner of the parental estate Angschnitt with Warnikam and Golbitten, together about 408 hectares . On October 2, 1865 she married Ludwig Bodo Wilhelm Friedrich Freiherr von Minningerode . Her husband became a member of the Reichstag and had been a member of the Prussian State Council since 1884 . The marriage remained childless.

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 147–150.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen houses, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1859, page 761 , 1873 p.635

Web links

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