Andreas Bernhard Quante

Andreas Quante, 1848

Andreas Bernhard Quante (born February 5, 1799 in Würzburg , † May 1874 in Ullstadt ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Quante, the son of a tailor, studied philosophy and law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg from 1814 . There he became a member of the Corps Moenania . From 1819 he was a trainee lawyer at the regional courts in Gerolzhofen and Würzburg, and from 1822 accessist at the district court and appellate court in Würzburg. In 1826 he became legal counsel, baronial patrimonial judge and administrator of the possessions of the Baroness von Frankenstein in Würzburg, and from 1833 in Ullstadt. After 1849 he was also chief bailiff in Ullstadt.

Quante joined the liberal movement early on. In 1830 he became a member of the board of the Liberal Society in Würzburg and was a participant and speaker at the constitution festivals in Gaibach in 1831 and 1832 . In 1832 he wrote a petition against the Bundestag resolutions to secure the Federal Constitution of June 1832. In 1833 he was exiled to Ullstadt because of his leading participation in the liberal movement in Würzburg. In 1833 criminal proceedings were initiated against him for high treason and lese majesty. Quante spent nineteen months in custody in Munich and was only released on bail in 1835. In 1836 he was sentenced to two years imprisonment and apology in front of the portrait of the king for insulting majesty . However, an appellate authority later acquitted on all points. In 1845 Quante took part in the song festival in Würzburg.

From May 18, 1848 to February 9, 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

See also : List of Corps students in the Frankfurt National Assembly

literature

• Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , pp. 266-267.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 141 , 26