Clemens Theodor Perthes

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The grave of Clemens Theodor Perthes and his wife Marie Madelung in the old cemetery in Bonn.

Clemens Theodor Perthes (born March 2, 1809 in Hamburg ; † November 25, 1867 in Bonn ) was a German legal scholar and one of the founders of the Inner Mission , today's Diakonisches Werk .

Life

The son of the bookseller Friedrich Christoph Perthes and Carolines , the eldest daughter of Matthias Claudius , first attended the Illustre grammar school there until 1827 after the family moved to Gotha due to the death of their mother. After that, he was at the academic grammar school for another year his hometown Hamburg, the Johanneum founded by the reformer Johannes Bugenhagen , where Johann Hinrich Wichern was one of his classmates.

After studying law in Bonn and Berlin, he passed his state examination and received his doctorate in Bonn in 1834 summa cum laude . Subsequently, he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer for German constitutional and private law at the law faculty in Bonn, became a professor in 1838 and held a professorship in 1842 .

From 1846 to 1851 he was a conservative city councilor in Bonn. In 1848, at the insistence of the Duke of Saxony-Meiningen, he represented his duchy for almost three months in the Frankfurt Bundestag, but left the Bundestag again when he believed he was unable to develop a positive political structure. Later Perthes found his political home on the liberal wing of the Conservative Party and in 1853 became its member for Simmern / Hunsrück in the second chamber of the Prussian House of Representatives in Berlin. After only half a year he left parliament and returned to Bonn from Berlin.

His main legal work is the state service in Prussia (1838), a work that received wide and long attention.

As a Christian, Clemens-Theodor Perthes lived with responsibility for the world and the service of others. In July 1849, his former school friend, Johann Hinrich Wichern, came to Bonn and spoke to Perthes, among other things, about how the Inner Mission in the Rhineland could be further promoted. Perthes immediately took action and in 1849 founded a local association for Inner Mission in the congregation , which he also directed himself. A few years later, on May 21, 1854, Perthes also founded the first Christian " hostel for home " in Bonn. So he became one of the co-founders of the Inner Mission, today's Diaconal Work.

Clemens-Theodor Perthes died on November 25, 1867. He is buried in the old cemetery in Bonn.

In 1965, Clemens Theodor Perthes was honored for his diaconal work by giving its name to the "Evangelical Perthes Foundation" in Westphalia.

family

Perthes married Maria Madlung (1816-1881) on April 15, 1839 in Gotha. The later Prussian infantry general Rudolf von Perthes (1843-1918) emerged from the marriage and was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on June 16, 1900 by Kaiser Wilhelm II .

Works (selection)

  • State service in Prussia. A contribution to German constitutional law. 1838.
  • German constitutional law before the revolution. A preliminary work on German constitutional law. 1845.
  • Political conditions and persons in Germany at the time of French rule. 1862 (and posthumously, 1869).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1907, p. 611.
personal data
SURNAME Perthes, Clemens Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and one of the founders of the Inner Mission
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1867
Place of death Bonn