Christian Bansa

Christian Bansa (born August 8, 1791 in Friedberg (Hesse) ; † February 11, 1862 in Homburg before the height ) was a liberal Hessian politician , former member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Minister of State in Hesse-Homburg .

family

Christian Bansa was the son of the Giessen court chamber councilor Johann Conrad Bansa (1759-1825) and his wife Jonanna Friederike, née von Schmalcalder (1762-1814). Christian Bansa married Friederike Luise, née Schulz (1792–1820), on October 18, 1817, and Sophie Luise, née Stürz (1801–1877), on January 1, 1822.

Education, profession and politics

Christian Bansa studied law in Giessen from 1809 and graduated with a doctorate in law. Jur. From. In 1814 he became a member of the Teutonia Gießen fraternity . From 1820 he worked as a court lawyer in Gießen. As a participant in the Hambach Festival , he was temporarily arrested in 1832 for “demagogic activities”.

In the 5th electoral term (1832–1833) Christian Bansa was a member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In the estates he represented the constituency of Upper Hesse 6 / Heuchelheim . After the state parliament was dissolved by Grand Duke Ludwig II , he was not re-elected in the new elections in 1833.

In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . After the March Revolution in 1848 he became the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg as the real secret councilor and minister of state. On April 6, 1848, the citizens of the Meisenheim upper office forced the leave of absence for the head of administration in the upper office, Johann Georg Martin Reinhardt . Christian Bansa then took over the management of the senior office for one year.

literature

• Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 59.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume 1: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 47-48 (with picture).
• Karl Baumgart: The Oberamt Meisenheim in the Vormärz and Revolution 1848/49 (= Meisenheimer Hefte. No. 40, ZDB -ID 226050-5 ). Historical association, Meisenheim / Glan 2000.
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 140.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 60.

Web links

• Bansa, Christian. Hessian biography. (As of February 11, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 47.
2. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)