Hans Victor von Unruh
Hans Victor von Unruh (* March 28, 1806 in Tilsit, East Prussia, † February 4, 1886 in Dessau, Anhalt ) was a Prussian official ( governmental and Building Officer ) and politician, president of the Prussian National Assembly, member of the Reichstag and squire on Good Otten.
Family
He came from a noble family originally probably Frankish balance, which first appears in records with Ernestus Unrowe in 1212, and was the son of the royal Prussian Major General Friedrich Wilhelm von Unruh ( 1766-1835 ) and the Caroline Baroness von Buttlar ( 1776-1858 ).
Unruh married his first wife, on 14 September 1828 in Wroclaw ( Lower Silesia) the divorced Ernestine von Risselmann, nee von Knobloch (* December 26, 1802; † October 4, 1869 ). This marriage ended in divorce. His second wife was married in the fall of 1834 in Frankfurt ( Oder) Marie Clement ( born June 20, 1816 in Frankfurt ( Oder), † October 8, 1849 in Magdeburg ), the daughter of the royal Prussian Judicial Council Gottfried Wilhelm Clement and the Wilhelmina Children.
Life
Unruh attended high school in the East Prussian Königsberg. His father advised him to follow the family tradition and become a soldier. After the completion of training as a surveyor, he worked at the General Commission for the regulation of landlord and peasant relations and separations. He then studied at the Berlin Academy of Architecture. In 1828, he put in Karl Friedrich Schinkel from his exams.
In Breslau he worked as hydraulic engineering inspector. In 1839 he accepted an appointment to the government and building officer in Gumbinnen. 1843 his request was granted a transfer to Potsdam. In 1844 to balance leave from government service and took over the management of the railway construction Magdeburg Potsdam. After completion of this building, he was a member of the Board of the Magdeburg- Wittenberg railroad. For this reason, he moved to Magdeburg.
He graduated with August von Borsig several study trips abroad.
After the revolution of March 1848 balance was chosen for Magdeburg in the Prussian Constituent Assembly. This, even though he did not belong to the opposition groups, citizens' assembly or light friends in the city. He represented a constitutional state model English type and was the candidate of the moderate liberals. He was the opponent the candidate of the left-liberals Friedrich Pax. In the Berlin Parliament to balance the right center initially joined the left, later on.
Unruh was elected vice-president and on 28 October 1848 the President of the Constituent Assembly on 17 October 1848. He had to hold its dissolution on December 5, 1852 this office. He tried to prevent new revolutionary struggles and rejected the armed struggle against the counter-revolution from beginning, even he turned against the tax resistance campaign of the left wing. Unruh was elected in January 1849 Magdeburg in the second chamber of the Prussian Landtag. He spoke, after the dissolution of the parliament by the king, against the Prussian three- class franchise from. In the aftermath of the Revolution, he had to suffer reprisals by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. His appointment as mayor of Magdeburg, Magdeburg majority approval of the City Council, was rejected.
1855 Unruh moved about for clues to escape the Prussian influence. There, he founded the German Continental Gas Company in Dessau. He set up in several cities, including in Moenchengladbach, Magdeburg and Lviv municipal gas works. In Magdeburg, he was also involved in an advisory capacity in the construction of the waterworks on the Wolf Werder.
Unruh was one of the founders in 1859 of the German National Association and in 1861 he was also in the constitution of the German Progressive Party, he was its first chairman from 1861 to 1863. In 1863 he was elected for Magdeburg in the Prussian House of Representatives. There he assisted in the result, like many of his fellow party members, the policies of Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck. After the breaking of the German Progressive Party to this approach, he founded the National Liberal Party, together with Rudolf von Bennigsen in 1867. From 1867 to 1879 was balance, again for Magdeburg, a member of the North German or German Reichstag. On September 10, 1879 balance resigned his seat in the Reichstag. There he led, as Vice President, the voting procedure Hammelsprung one.
Honors
1876 Unruh received the honorary citizenship of the city of Magdeburg, 1880, the city of Dessau. The city of Magdeburg ( Victor von Unruh Street) named after him a road. In the city of Dessau, the Unruh street located in the historic district gas, the present headquarters of the Federal Environment Agency.
Works
- Sketches from Prussia latest story. 1849
- Experience over the past three years. A contribution to the critique of political parties means. 1851
- Memoirs of the life, (edited by Henry of Poschingerstraße, 1895)