Woldemar Tenge-Rietberg
Karl Ludwig Woldemar Tenge-Rietberg (born March 9, 1856 in Niederbarkhausen near Oerlinghausen , † October 19, 1940 in Gadderbaum - Bethel , today Bielefeld ) was a German administrative lawyer , landowner and politician .
Life
Born the son of the landowner and industrialist Carl Friedrich Tenge , Woldemar Tenge-Rietberg attended the Progymnasium in Rietberg from 1866 to 1872 and the Ratsgymnasium in Bielefeld until 1874 . In 1874 he attended an academy in Lausanne for training in the new languages . In 1875 he went to Heidelberg University to study law and in the same year moved to Bonn University , where he became a member of the Corps Hansea . In 1876 he moved to the University of Leipzig. Here he joined the Corps Saxonia .
After completing his legal clerkship at various Prussian courts, he passed the second state examination in 1884. In 1885 he was appointed government assessor. From 1890 to 1892 he was district administrator for the Ottweiler district . He resigned from his office to join his father's undertakings as a general representative. After his death in 1896 he became the owner of Gut Rietberg and Gut Schloß Holte.
In 1892 Woldemar Tenge was appointed a member of the board of trustees of the Rietberg Progymnasium. As his father's successor, he was a local councilor in Rietberg from his death until 1933. From 1897 to 1921 he was an alderman in the Rietberg office. Since 1906 at the latest he has been a member of the Westphalian Provincial Parliament in Münster. Here his political commitment was directed to the concerns of agriculture and the improvement of rural infrastructure.
At the beginning of the 20th century he donated the pulpit of the Church of St. Ursula in Schloß Holte.
His grandfather was the landowner and industrialist Friedrich Ludwig Tenge . He was a brother of the writer Dora Hohlfeld and a cousin of the paper manufacturer Max Dresel .
Awards
In 1936 the city of Rietberg made him an honorary citizen.
literature
- Frank Konersmann: The Tenges - 400 years of entrepreneurs in Osnabrück and East Westphalia , Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89534-561-X
Individual evidence
- ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 13 , 205
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 96 , 530
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tenge-Rietberg, Woldemar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tenge-Rietberg, Karl Ludwig Woldemar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer, landowner and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Niederbarkhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1940 |
| Place of death | Gadderbaum |