Heinrich Simon (politician, 1805)
August Heinrich Simon (born October 29, 1805 in Breslau , † August 16, 1860 in Walensee , Switzerland ) was a German democratic politician . In the Frankfurt National Assembly he was a member of the constitutional committee . His agreement with Heinrich von Gagern on voting on the Frankfurt Imperial Constitution is called the Simon-Gagern Pact .
Life
Simon studied law and camera science at the universities of Berlin and Breslau from 1824 to 1827 . In 1824 he became a member of the old Breslau fraternity .
In 1827 he entered the Prussian a civil service, however, was in 1829 for killing a duel enemy to life imprisonment sentenced and Glogau interned. After his pardon in 1830, he first worked as an unskilled worker in Breslau courts and then continued in his regular career at courts in Breslau, Berlin , Magdeburg and Frankfurt an der Oder . In 1841 he moved to the Prussian Ministry of Culture. He wrote a Prussian constitutional law (1844), a polemic in favor of judicial independence (1845 [The Prussian judges and the laws of March 29, 1844]), which led to a violent controversy with the former Minister of Justice v. Kamptz led and worked for several editions on the so-called Five Men Book (a compendium primarily on general land law). In 1845 he resigned from the Prussian civil service after refusing to take a vacation that he needed to prepare further publications and for political reasons and worked as a freelance journalist with Robert Blum . In 1847 he was charged with libel against Friedrich Wilhelm IV .
In 1848, in addition to his membership in the Prussian state parliament, he was a delegate in the pre-parliament , where he held the function of secretary and then a member of the committee of 50 . From May 18, 1848 to June 18, 1849 he represented Magdeburg in the Frankfurt National Assembly . As the leader of the Westendhall parliamentary group, after initial reluctance, he gave the hereditary imperial family around Heinrich von Gagern a majority in determining a hereditary head of state in the Paulskirche constitution .
From June 6 to June 18, 1849, Simon was a member of the executive branch appointed by the rump parliament , the provisional imperial government . After the suppression of the revolution, he fled to Switzerland in July of the same year and was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for high treason in absentia due to his membership in the imperial government .
In Switzerland he was active as an entrepreneur and operated agricultural goods, and he also participated in quarries and copper smelters. The University of Zurich awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1851.
In 1860 he drowned near Murg in the Walensee.
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 440-441.
- Johann Jacoby: Heinrich Simon. A memorial book for the German people . Julius Springer, Berlin 1865 ( digitized version ).
- Christian Jansen : Simon, August Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 432 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Alfred Stern : Simon, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 371-376.
Web links
- Christian Baertschi: Simon, Heinrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 440.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simon, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simon, August Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1860 |
| Place of death | Walensee |