Wilhelm Hespeler
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Wilhelm (William) Hespeler (December 29, 1830 – April 18, 1921) was a politician from Manitoba, Canada.
Born in Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden, the son of Georg Johann and Anna Barbara (Wick) Hespeler, Hespeler was educated in the Polytechnic Institute at Karlsruhe. He left school at the age of nineteen and emigrated to Canada with is mother in 1850 (his father died in 1840), where he located in Waterloo county, in the town of Preston, joining his brother, who had preceded him. A successful business person, one of his businesses was a distillery that was to become the Seagram's distillery of great fame. He left Southern Ontario and negotiated the emigration and settlement of a group of Russian Mennonites from the steppes of the Southern Ukraine to Southern Manitoba.
Wilhelm became an appointed member of the Council of Keewatin, the government of the District of Keewatin when it was created in 1876. He also served as Speaker, elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and as German Consul General of Canada.
In 1903 he was decorated by William II, German Emperor, with the Order of the Red Eagle, in recognition of his twenty years of service to the German Empire.
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