August Hergenhahn

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Hergenhahn in a lithograph from 1848

Jacob Ludwig Philipp August Franz Hergenhahn (born April 16, 1804 in Usingen , † December 29, 1874 in Wiesbaden ) was a Nassau liberal politician.

Life

His parents were the Nassau bailiff in the office of Usingen and Judicial Councilor Johann Carl Salomon Hergenhahn (born August 17, 1762 in Usingen; † March 28, 1806 there) and his wife Christiane Vigelius (1768-1805), a daughter of the Nassau government president Ludwig Wilhelm Konrad Vigelius and Marie Christiane Thilemann . His brother Karl Friedrich (1793–1868) was a Lieutenant General in Nassau, his sister Christiane Caroline (1790–1857), a well-known educator in Frankfurt am Main, was married to the publicist August Brecht († 1861).

After the early death of his parents, he was brought up by an aunt, Mrs. Böhnig. August Hergenhahn attended the Idsteiner Gymnasium and completed his education in 1822 at the Gymnasium Weilburg .

After studying law and political science at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg , August Hergenhahn received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1824 . He then worked at the Nassau appellate and court courts in Usingen and Wiesbaden . During his studies he joined the old Heidelberg fraternity in 1822 .

In 1832 Hergenhahn resigned from the civil service for political reasons and worked as a lawyer in Wiesbaden. He became a member of the Hallgarten circle around Johann Adam von Itzstein and maintained contacts with leading liberal politicians such as Hansemann , Gagern and Bassermann .

After the Duchy of Nassau experienced a liberal reform policy from 1841, Hergenhahn returned to the civil service in 1841 and worked at the Higher Appeal Court in Wiesbaden until 1848.

In 1846 he was elected for Wiesbaden in the assembly of deputies of the duchy , whose president he became in 1848. Shortly afterwards he resigned from parliament, as he became Prime Minister of the March government of the Duchy in April 1848 . In September of the same year he was additionally appointed as the Nassau representative at the provisional central authority.

After Hergenhahn had participated in the Heppenheim conference , the pre-parliament and various popular assemblies and was a member of the Fifties Committee , on May 18, 1848 he became a member for Wiesbaden in the Frankfurt National Assembly , of which he was a member until June 30, 1849. In the Paulskirche he was one of the leading representatives of the casino faction and was a member of numerous committees, including the constitutional committee. In November 1848 he was briefly active as Reich Commissioner of Central Power for Prussia in order to negotiate with the Prussian government about the imperial constitution .

After Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Of Prussia rejected the German imperial dignity and the imperial constitution by several countries, Hergenhahn suggested that the duke join the camp that opposed parliament in order to achieve German unity through the Erfurt Union constitution . In order to facilitate this change of course, he asked on June 7, 1849 for his dismissal as Prime Minister, which Duke Adolph accepted. His successor was Friedrich von Wintzingerode . Hergenhahn then worked again at the Higher Appeal Court. In July 1849 he also became a member of the editorial board of the Deutsche Zeitung , for which he has been a reporter from Nassau since it was founded.

In 1850 he was a member of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

In 1860 he became director of the court and appeal court in Dillenburg , and in 1861 director of the court and appeal court in Wiesbaden . In 1863 he became director of the Nassauische Landesbank before he again headed the Nassau government between 1866 and 1867 on behalf of Prussia. In 1867, as a representative of the National Liberal Party, he was a member of the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation for the constituency of Wiesbaden 1 (Obertaunus - Hoechst - Usingen) . In 1867 he became president of the newly established court of appeal in Wiesbaden.

Hergenhahn was initially a member of the Masonic lodge Die Freunde zur Eintracht in Mainz; In 1858 he was one of the founders of the Plato Lodge for Permanent Unity in Wiesbaden, in which he held the office of master from the chair between 1863 and 1866. Until his death he was president of the Society for Nassau Archeology and Historical Research .

family

In 1829 he married Pauline Sulzer (1806–1880), a daughter of the merchant Friedrich Georg Sulzer from Magdeburg, in Berlin . The couple had four sons and four daughters, including:

  • August (1830–1903), Prussian nobility 1883, police chief in Frankfurt am Main
  • Theodor (1833–1893), Higher Regional Judge in Kassel
  • Caroline ⚭ Achilles Renaud (1819–1884), Professor of Law
  • Helene ⚭ Peter Kerdyk, businessman (* 1842)
  • Luise ⚭ Friedrich Kyllmann (1841–1919), banker

Honors

Memorial plaque for August Hergenhahn in Usingen

In 2007, his hometown Usingen honored August Hergenhahn with a plaque at the house where he was born, the civil servants' house at Obergasse 25 in Usingen. The bronze medal designed by the sculptor Kurt Heinrich has a diameter of 65 centimeters and is located above the main entrance.

In January 2008, it was also decided to name the ring road of the new construction area Schleichenbach II as "August-Hergenhahn-Ring". On official documents, such as the official city map, the street is now only written as “Hergenhahnring”.

literature

  • Karl Wippermann:  Hergenhahn, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 105-109.
  • Wolf-Heiner Struck:  Hergenhahn, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , pp. 608 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research: Nassau Annals 13 (1874), obituary for August Hergenhahn
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 305-306.
  • Bernd von Egidy: The elections in the Duchy of Nassau 1848-1852 . Nassau Annals , Volume 82. 1971. pp. 215-306
  • 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 , pp. 176-177.
  • Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1: Cornelia Rösner: The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. Vol. 59 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 16). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 , No. 103.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 153.
  2. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 164, short biography p. 416.
  3. ↑ Minutes of the 13th meeting of the Main and Finance Committee on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 ( Memento of December 9th, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.usingen.de/stadtplan.php?aktion=&linkid=3
personal data
SURNAME Hergenhahn, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hergenhahn, Jacob Ludwig Philipp August Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nassau liberal politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Usingen
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1874
Place of death Wiesbaden