Winand Virnich

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Winand Karl Hubert Wilhelm Virnich (born May 12, 1836 in Düren , † August 12, 1890 in Bonn ) was an editor and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Virnich attended the schools and the grammar school in his hometown Düren, the commercial school in Verviers , the Jesuit college Notre Dame de la Paix in Namur and the grammar school in Aachen up to the Abitur exams in 1858. Afterwards he did university studies in Bonn, Munich , Innsbruck and Berlin . During his studies he was a member of the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn from 1860 to 1864 . In Innsbruck in 1864 was a founding member of the Catholic student association AV Austria Innsbruck . He undertook private studies in Heidelberg and Tübingen and received his doctorate there in 1871. Subsequently, he first devoted himself to the mountain subject as a mountain expert in various Rhenish-Westphalian mountain areas and at the mining office in Düren and also worked for some time in his father's factory and trading house. After the abolition of the mining offices in Prussia, he studied law and then worked from 1867 to 1870 as an editor of various Catholic newspapers, namely as head of the "Essener Volkszeitung" and "Breslauer Hausblätter" and later from 1872–1873 of the Deutsche Reichszeitung in Bonn. After his marriage he retired and moved to Bonn.

Haan-Lyversberg-Virnich family grave at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (HWG)

From 1873 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , from 1887 of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Cologne District 4 Rheinbach , Bonn and the German Center Party . Both mandates ended with his death.

His grave is located in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (HWG).

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 356-357.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the gravestone inscription, he died in Borkum .
  2. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 395 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)

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personal data
SURNAME Virnich, Winand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Virnich, Winand Karl Hubert Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1890
Place of death Bonn