August Klett
August Christian Klett (born July 16, 1799 in Erbach ; † May 13, 1869 in Heilbronn ) was a Württemberg lawyer and politician .
Life and work
August Klett was the son of Countess Erbacher personal physician and later Heilbronn senior medical officer Christian Johann Klett and his wife Lisette Kornacher . He attended the Heilbronn grammar school , then from 1813 the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Schöntal for two years , before turning away from a theological career. Klett studied law at the University of Tübingen from 1817 to 1825 . In Tübingen he lived with his brother Georg Klett and the young Heinrich Titot with Christian von Gmelin , who was distantly related to Klett. On August 7, 1826 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. He had been a member of the Alte Arminia fraternity since 1807 and the Germania Tübingen fraternity since 1818 . He then worked from 1822 to 1825 as a court actuary in Heilbronn, until he became self-employed as a legal consultant in 1825 . He also retained his approval through his election as mayor from 1848 to 1853. Only a few months after he resigned from his office for reasons of age in December 1868, he died of pneumonia .
family
On November 21, 1826, Klett married Elise Felizitas Parant des Moulins, the daughter of a Frankfurt doctor, in Heilbronn. The marriage had eight children.
politics
Klett was a member of the Heilbronn Citizens Committee , from 1828 its chairman. After the election on March 23, 1848, he was a member of the Heilbronn city council. After the Heilbronn city councilor Heinrich Titot resigned in the course of the March Revolution , Klett initially refused to take over the administration that he had been offered. In the election of March 28, 1848, Klett was elected to the city school. The King of Württemberg confirmed the election on May 3, and Klett took office on May 16, 1848. At first, the nocturnal cat music , which had already been directed against his predecessor, was directed against him , before the March riots gradually subsided. In 1851 a local political controversy broke out over Klett after he had made disparaging remarks about the democratically elected representatives and defended the old principle of honorary election. His further term in office is generally described as calm. For health reasons he resigned on December 29, 1868. As his successor on February 1, 1869 council clerk Josef Raur (1817-1870) was elected, but he did not accept the election for health reasons, so that after a new election on May 3, 1869 Karl Wüst became Klett's successor.
From 1833 to 1838 Klett was also a member of the second chamber of the Württemberg state parliament and from February 26, 1849 to the end of the rump parliament on June 18, 1849, he was the successor of Louis Hentge's non-attached member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for the constituency of Heilbronn , where he mostly voted with the left parliamentary groups .
Honors
August Klett was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Frederick Order in 1865 .
literature
- Wilhelm Steinhilber: Stadtschultheiß August Klett . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 6th year, no. 2 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, February 27, 1960, ZDB -ID 128017-X .
- Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 . P. 206.
- Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 446 .
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 105-106.
- Dirk Reuter: Between honorary elections and the “party principle”: Heilbronn local politics between restoration and the founding of an empire , in: Heilbronnica 3 , Heilbronn City Archive 2006, pp. 205–243.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reuter 2006, pp. 205-243.
Georg Christian Franz Kübel (1803–1819) | Lebrecht Landauer (1819–1822) | Johann Clemens Bruckmann (1822–1835) | Heinrich Titot (1835–1848) | August Klett (1848–1868) | Karl Wüst (1869–1884) | Paul Hegelmaier (1884–1904) | Paul Göbel (1904–1921) | Emil Beutinger (1921–1933) | Heinrich Valid (1933–1945) | Emil Beutinger (1945–1946) | Paul Metz (1946–1948) | Paul Meyle (1948–1967) | Hans Hoffmann (1967–1983) | Manfred Weinmann (1983–1999) | Helmut Himmelsbach (1999–2014) | Harry Mergel (since May 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klett, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klett, August Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Württemberg lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1869 |
| Place of death | Heilbronn |