Wilhelm von Wedell

This article deals with the administrative officer Wilhelm von Wedell. For other people see Wilhelm von Wedel .

Wilhelm Felix Heinrich Magnus von Wedell (born January 16, 1801 in Piesdorf , † July 22, 1866 there ) was a Prussian chief president .

Life

Wilhelm von Wedell came from the noble family von Wedel (Wedell) and was the eldest of three sons of Gottlob Heinrich Magnus von Wedell (1769–1831), landlord on Piesdorf. As a student in Halle (Saale) , Wedell became a member of the Corps Saxonia Halle before 1827 . After years as ministerial director in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, he was appointed Upper President of the Province of Saxony in 1844. Subsequently, as the successor to Friedrich Theodor von Merckel, from May 1845 he was Upper President of the Province of Silesia and at the same time President of the Government of the Wroclaw District . However, he was relieved of his office in March 1848, since he had not been able to intervene in the interests of the Prussian government against the reform movement ( Vormärz ), which finally culminated in the German Revolution of 1848/1849 . In addition, it had failed completely in the eyes of the king, which is why the poor harvests of previous years had led to famine and ultimately to protests by the rural population. Wedell had even seen himself forced to flee Breslau on March 19, 1848 and go to Berlin, where he was immediately replaced. In 1856 he was appointed to the Prussian mansion , to which he belonged until his death, at the presentation of the Association of the Pomeranian Castle Seated Sex von Wedel .

family

Wedell married Elisabeth von Moeller , the daughter of the Government Medical Councilor Dr. who was raised to the Prussian nobility in 1805 and who worked in Minden. med. Friedrich Wilhelm von Moeller (1758–1842), councilor and personal physician as well as owner of the domain Schluesselburg (Weser), and Friederike Woermann (1775–1857). Elisabeth's brother was the Prussian President Eduard von Moeller (1814–1880).

See also

• List of members of the Prussian manor house
• List of corps students in the Prussian mansion

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910 106/45
2. ↑ Upper President
3. ↑ Ludwig Petry, Josef Joachim Menzel: Geschichte Schlesiens , 1999, Volume 3, S. 50 ( excerpt )
4. ↑ Schlesien , 1978, Vol. 23-24, p. 203 ( excerpt )
5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schoeps : New sources on the history of Prussia in the 19th century , 1968, p. 411 ( excerpt )
6. ^ Karl August Varnhagen von Ense : Diaries , 1862, p. 327 ( digitized version )
7. ↑ E. David (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian manor house . Berlin 1911, p. 229 ( online ).
8. ↑ Neue Deutsche Biographie , Volume 17, p. 638 ( Article Friedrich Wilhelm von Moeller )