Ernst von Bernuth (lawyer, 1779)

Ernst Friedrich Heinrich August von Bernuth (born September 4, 1779 in Hamm ; † February 3, 1847 there ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Ernst von Bernuth was the son of Jakob Christian von Bernuth , war and tax councilor at the War and Domain Chamber in Hamm and his wife Clara Gerstmann (1747-1818), a daughter of the general practitioner Barthold Florian Gerstmann. His siblings were:

• Wilhelm (1768–1828), War and Tax Council at the War and Domain Chamber in Hamm;
• Johann Ludwig (1770–1857), Prussian Real Secret Finance Councilor ⚭ Wilhelmine Countess von Platen-Hallermund (1778–1827), a daughter of Imperial Count Philipp August von Platen Hallermund (1748–1831), head forester in Ansbach , her brother was the poet August from Platen-Hallermünde ;
• Friedrich (1772–1862), Prussian lieutenant colonel ;
• Karl (1774–1843), councilor and president of the Münster Higher Regional Court ⚭ Luise Freiin von der Recke (1787–1862) from the Uentrop family , parents of politician August von Bernuth and major general Fritz von Bernuth ;
• August (1782–1857), Prussian State Councilor ⚭ Dorothee Jochmus (1780–1865).

He attended high school in Hammonense and received his Abitur at Easter 1798 . In October 1798 he began to study law in Erlangen . In 1807 he was director of justice in Münster and from 1815 to 1839 he also worked there as city and regional court director. In 1839 he was a senior judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court .

Ernst von Bernuth was married to Louise Henriette von Bernuth (1787–1813), a daughter of Friedrich von Bernuth (1757–1832), who was government president in Arnsberg from 1816 to 1825 .

literature

• Bernd Walter: The civil service in Münster between class and civil society. A personal history study on the state and municipal civil service in Westphalia (1800-1850) , Münster 1987, p. 387 No. 324.

Web links

• Ernst von Bernuth in HammWiki