Christian Wilhelm Karl Ewald

Christian Wilhelm Karl Ewald since 1912 by Ewald, ( born June 18, 1852 in Rehbach, † September 2, 1932 in Darmstadt) was Minister of State of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and German Reichsgerichtsrat.

Life

After attending high school in Weimar, he studied law and Kameralwissenschaften in Leipzig, Göttingen and Giessen. In 1874, he passed the first and 1877 second exam. In 1879 he was attorney office in Mainz. 1882 he was appointed magistrate in Worms. In 1884 he was transferred prosecutor in Darmstadt and 1885 to Mainz. In 1893 he was promoted to I. prosecutor. In 1898 he came to the Supreme Court. He was active in the First Criminal Division. In 1905 he resigned from the Imperial Court and was Hessian Minister of Justice and Minister of the Grand Ducal house. In 1906 he was also the Hessian Minister of State (Prime Minister). 1907 Honorary Doctor of the University of Giessen he was awarded. On him the proposal of Hesse went back in the Bundesrat, that in a working chamber Act only the workers should be represented. Furthermore, under his government several basic laws were created, such as the cities and rural municipal regulations and the law on the town allocations. In the Hessian nobility, he was raised on 23 December 1912.

Ewald's government was marked by the protracted reform of the Hessian suffrage. In the suffrage amendment in 1911 were voters aged 50 and an extra vote. Before the Constitutional Committee of the lower house of parliament Darmstadt Ewald stated on 26 October 1917 to try to amend the electoral law along the lines of Prussia, and thus propose an equal suffrage without extra votes and proportional representation for multi-member constituencies. The deliberations were transferred to a 14köpfigen constitutional committee for processing. A year later, on October 26, 1918 Dr. Ewald " the willingness of Grand Duke and Government alsbaldigen discussion and adoption of the reforms required ", but no longer held the revolution. Shortly thereafter, Ewald resigned and retired from politics.

Family

His great-grandfather was Johann Ludwig Ewald (1747-1822) was Reformed theologian and childhood friend of Goethe. 1888 married Mary Valckenberg Ewald ( 1863-1945 ), a daughter of William Valckenberg ( 1790-1847 ), Member of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and owner of the wine shop PJ Valckenberg.