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| footnotes = }}Karl Wilhelm von Meister (3 February 1863 â€“ 14 February 1935) was a German politician and diplomat.

Life and career

Meister was born as the eldest son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meister, one of the co-founders of Hoechst AG, and his wife Marie nÃ©e Becker.{{sfn|Luyken|1935|page=326}}{{sfn|Koch|1996|page=30}} Meister went to school at the Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt and later studied law at the University of Bonn and at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He earned a doctorate in law at Heidelberg University in 1886.{{sfn|Koch|1996|page=30}} From 1892 to 1894 he was district administrator of the newly created Hoechst District. 1895 he was nominated district administrator of the District of Obertaunus where he remained until 1903. In 1896, Meister was enobled by Kaiser Wilhelm II.{{sfn|Luyken|1935|pages=326-327}} After leaving the post of administrator of Obertaunus, he worked from 1902 until 1905 in Berlin and later from 1905 until 1919 as district president of Wiesbaden.BOOK, Siebold, Alexander Freiherr von, 1999, Die TagebÃ¼cher, The Diaries, German, Harassowitz, 652, 3447041455, On 1 June 1919 during the German Revolution of 1918â€“1919, Meister resigned after the French administrator demanded he submit to the separatist government.{{sfn|Luyken|1935|page=327}}From 1919 to 1926 he was member of the supervisory board of Farbwerke Hoechst and from 1926 to 1935 of I.G. Farben AG.{{sfn|Koch|1996|page=30}}In 1930, Meister represented the Weimar Republic as a delegate to the League of Nations in Geneva.{{sfn|Luyken|1935|page=328}}

Family life

Meister married Adele Jordan de Rouville on 31 October 1892, and had two children. Following the death of his first wife on 22 June 1897, Meister married Leila Trapmann on 18 January 1900 at St Peter’s Church in London. The couple had two children.{{sfn|Luyken|1935|page=327}}NEWS, News of Noted Persons,chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84036008/1900-01-26/ed-1/seq-2/, The Billings Gazette, Library of Congress, 26 January 1900, 2, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, BOOK, 1925, ChronikblÃ¤tter fÃ¼r die Familie Luyken und ihre Anverwandten, Chronicle sheets for the Luyken family and their relatives,www.familie-luyken.de/03Chronik/1925/1925chronikblatt.htm#195, German, 195, 1, Familienverband Luyken,

References

Bibliography

BOOK, 1935, ChronikblÃ¤tter fÃ¼r die Familie Luyken und ihre Anverwandten, Chronicle sheets for the Luyken family and their relatives,www.familie-luyken.de/03Chronik/1935/1935chronikblatt.htm326, German, 326â€“329, 2, Familienverband Luyken, {{harvid, Luyken, 1935, }}
BOOK, Koch, Fritz, 1996, Frankfurter Biographie, Frankfurt Biography, German, Waldemar Kramer, KlÃ¶tzer, Wolfgang, Hock, Sabine, Frost, Reinhard, 30, 2, 3782904591,

External links

Meister, Karl Wilhelm von. Hessian Biography.

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