Adolph Raht
Johann Andreas Adolph Raht (born June 11, 1789 in Rennerod ; † November 28, 1858 in Hochheim am Main ) was a Nassau lawyer and politician .
Life
Adolph Raht attended grammar school in Weilburg from 1802 to 1806 and studied law and political science at the University of Heidelberg from 1807 and at the University of Göttingen from 1808 . After graduating in 1810, he was made official in 1811 in the Nassau office .
In 1805 he did voluntary military service in the wars of liberation as a first lieutenant in the 1st regiment of the Landwehr battalion in the Ducal Nassau Army and was a participant in the Battle of Waterloo .
He then became an office advisor in the Wiesbaden office, where he was promoted to government assessor and in 1819 to government councilor. In 1822 he became councilor and in 1826 director at the court and appeal court of Wiesbaden . In 1830 he was appointed Privy Councilor and Director of the Dillenburg Court Court. There he became president in 1843. In 1848 he was appointed to the State Council and provisional head of the State Ministry. In 1849 he was given early retirement.
After the March Revolution , after the resignation of Carl Schenck, he became a member of the Nassau Estates Assembly in a by-election in constituency 1 (Dillenburg / Herborn) from 1848 to 1851 . There he was a member of the Left Club .
Adolph Raht was one of the leading figures in the March Revolution in Nassau. In 1848 he became a co-founder and later a board member of the “democratic association” in Wiesbaden and later of the “Bund democratic associations in Nassaus”. In 1848 he was appointed to the State Ministry to work out the bills for the implementation of the nine demands of the Nassauer approved by the Duke on March 5, 1848 .
He was a participant in the Idstein Democrats' Congress of Radical Democrats in June 1849, where he was elected to the board of directors and state committee. In the subsequent high treason trial against leading participants from February 8 to 15, 1850 before the criminal court in Wiesbaden , he and the other defendants were acquitted by the jury.
family
Adolph Raht was the son of the bailiff and judicial advisor Georg Daniel Raht (born January 4, 1740 in Diez ; † after 1815) and his wife Dorothea Philippine née Herborn.
He married on May 16, 1822, his first marriage to Josephine nee Neuchâtel († June 6, 1826). On July 7, 1828, he married Maria Wilhelmine, born Goedecke (born January 24, 1804 in Oranienstein ), the daughter of Heinrich Carl Goedecke, member of the state parliament .
Awards
literature
- Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. 48, 7). Published on behalf of the Hessian Parliament. Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 300.
- Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1: Cornelia Rösner: The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. 59 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 16). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 , p. 135.
- Peter Wacker: The ducal-Nassau military 1813–1866. Military history in the field of tension between politics, economy and social conditions of a small German state (= The ducal-Nassau military 1806–1866. Vol. 2). Schellenberg, Taunusstein 1998, ISBN 3-922027-85-7 , p. 462.
Web links
- Raht, Johann Andreas Adolph. Hessian biography. (As of June 11, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raht, Adolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Raht, Johann Andreas Adolph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nassau judge and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1789 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rennerod |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1858 |
| Place of death | Hochheim am Main |