August Goertz

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August Friedrich Wilhelm Görtz (born August 15, 1795 in Hanover , † February 11, 1864 in Darmstadt ) was a Hessian civil servant and politician and a member of the 2nd Chamber of the Land estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

Life

Görtz 'father was Johann Joachim Friedrich Görtz (1757–1828), around 1795 pastor at the Aegidienkirche in Hanover, later at the Evangelical Church in Melbach . The mother was Dorothee Henriette Wilhelmine Görtz geb. Berchelmann. The Protestant August Görtz married Elisabethe Wilhelmine Dorothee born on October 5, 1821 in Darmstadt. Barley (1795-1869). The marriage resulted in two sons and four daughters.

August Goertz (far right) as a second in 1816

At the end of the Wars of Liberation, Görtz enrolled at the Georg-August University in Göttingen for law and political science. He became a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . A record book sheet etched by Christian Andreas Besemann with the rare depiction of a real, then forbidden duel on basketball in March 1816 in Göttingen shows him as a second . In 1816 he moved to the Hessian Ludwig University and was also active in the Corps Hassia Gießen . He proved himself as a senior and attended the Wartburg Festival in 1817 . He opposed the fraternity member Adolf Ludwig Follen and called on them to reject his reform proposals.

After graduating, he became an accessist at the Hofkammer Gießen. In 1821 he became an assessor with voting rights at the Oberfinanzkammer Darmstadt , where he became Oberfinanzrat in 1827. In 1843 he was appointed third member of the fire curation commission. In 1849 he became director of the chief tax office and in 1853 also director of the coin deputation. He died as President of the Chief Tax Directorate.

politics

From 1838 to 1841 he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Estates. He was elected for the constituency of the city of Darmstadt .

Honors

literature

  • Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera (1809-1899). Göttingen 2002, No. 175.
  • History of the Corps Hassia Giessen in Mainz 1815–1965 . Mainz 1965.
  • 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. 148.
  • 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 , No. 266.
  • 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. 113.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other information also Melbach
  2. ^ Friedrich Görtz wrote the book The inauguration of the new church in Melbach in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, October 20th, 1816
  3. ↑ enrollment on October 26, 1814; see. Götz von Selle : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1734-1837 . Hildesheim, Leipzig 1937
  4. ↑ Kösener Corps Lists 1910, 70 , 120
  5. ^ Hans-Werner Wolf: A Göttingen student duel in 1816. Monograph of a register sheet. In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1974 , pp. 137–150; Otto Deneke / Fritz Scheidemann: Göttinger Stammbuchkupfer, 1938, p. 40, no. 32; Bernhard Gelderblom : The Jews in Hameln , Holzminden 2011, p. 47 ff.
  6. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 51 , 117
  7. ^ Bernhard Sommerlad : Wartburg Festival and Corps students . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research , Vol. 24 (1979), p. 37 (No. 25)
  8. ↑ Corpsgeschichte Hassia, Vol. 1, p. 12.
  9. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. 1864, p. 20.
  10. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. 1864, p. 67.
personal data
SURNAME Goertz, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Görtz, August Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of Parliament for the Grand Duchy of Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1864
Place of death Darmstadt