Wolrad Schumacher

Wolrad Schumacher

Ludwig Wolrad Friedrich Wilhelm Schumacher (born November 2, 1793 in Korbach , † July 21, 1862 in Arolsen ) was a German administrative officer and politician in Waldeck .

Wolrad Schumacher was the son of the Privy Councilor Heinrich Christian Wolrad Schumacher and his wife Maria Carolina Franziska nee Gebhard. He married Josephine von Stockhausen on April 18, 1820.

From 1809 he studied law with the help of a scholarship in Göttingen and from 1811 in Marburg, where he took the exam in 1816. In the same year he became a lawyer and then a government procurator. From 1817 he was Justice and Consistorial Secretary at the government and was promoted to the chancellery in 1819. From 1824 he was in the rank of Judicial Council 1st civil servant and criminal judge in the Oberjustizamt der Werbe in Sachsenhausen and from 1829 Judicial Councilor to the government. In 1832 he was elected state syndic by the landscape and from 1843 he carried the title of district administrator.

After the March Revolution he was in 1848 for the III. urban constituency elected to the state parliament. Differentiating from Robert Schumacher , he was listed in the state parliament protocols as Schumacher I. In the state parliament he emerged as the author of the constitution for the principalities of Waldeck and Pyrmont . In 1849 he was appointed to the government as director of the finance department and head of the Waldeck-Pyrmont state government with the title of Councilor of State. With the beginning of the reaction era , he was dismissed in 1851 and Carl Winterberg moved to the head of the government. In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

In 1853 he became a member and chairman of the Consistory and from 1854 to 1858 a member of the National Debt Administration. From 1855 to 1862 he was again a member of the state parliament (elected for the constituency of the Twiste district).

literature

• Reinhard König: The members of the Waldeck Landtag from 1848 to 1929 . Hessisches Staatsarchiv, Marburg 1985, ISBN 3-88964-122-9 , p. 80.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen 1808-1996, 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 349.
• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 281-282.