August Lufft

August Lufft (born December 28, 1801 in Worms , † October 20, 1887 in Karlsruhe ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

Lufft was a son of the French colonel and knight of the Legion of Honor Karl August Lufft in Oberbronn in Alsace. He attended a private school in Otterberg , from 1810 the grammar school in Kaiserslautern and in 1818 the lyceum in Speyer . In the winter semester of 1818/19 he enrolled as a law student at Heidelberg University . In 1821/22 he moved to Erlangen . In 1822/23 he returned to Heidelberg. In both Heidelberg and Erlangen he was a member of the Corps Rhenania and was involved in the Corps Foundation. He completed his studies in the spring of 1823 and turned first to finance, then to justice and administration. In 1831 he became a councilor at the Chamber of the Interior in Speyer, and in July 1831 an actuary at the Bergzabern Land Commissioner . Under the liberal influence of his wife Amalie Schneider's family, whom he married in May 1832, Lufft resigned from the civil service in March 1833 out of opposition to the government's actions after the Hambach Festival and founded a participant with Daniel Gelbert in September 1833 at the Hambacher Fest, a consultation office in Neustadt an der Haardt . In February 1834 he applied for an emigration permit and settled temporarily in Alsace, then in Bern , where he was appointed examining magistrate on May 26, 1834. When he wanted to pick up his family in Neustadt in early July 1834, he was arrested and taken to the Frankenthal District Court for disseminating rebellious writings. The investigation was discontinued. He went back to Bern and conducted investigations there against members of “ Junge Deutschland ” and its then President Ernst Schüler. In Bern he became a member of the Masonic Lodge Zur Hope . He later joined the Karlsruhe Lodge Leopold in loyalty .

In July 1837, Lufft asked, regretfully revoking his farewell, for the reassignment of indigenous rights and resumption of service in Bavarian state services. On April 16, 1838 he became third assessor in the government of Upper Bavaria, Chamber of the Interior, in Munich. In July 1838 he was commissioner for the safety of the guests when the Emperor and Empress of Russia visited Kreuth. In January 1843 he became a councilor in Augsburg , at the same time city commissioner and censor of the Allgemeine Zeitung . On May 30, 1846, he was finally appointed director of the royal government of the Palatinate, Chamber of the Interior, in Speyer. During the unrest of 1848 there was a popular uproar against him in March 1848. A people's assembly in Neustadt demands his recall. The main agitators were Ludwig Frey and Philipp Hepp . Lufft was given leave of absence and on April 2, 1848, was put into temporary retirement. He did not return to office and was henceforth active as a journalist. In 1872 he was finally retired.

literature

• Edgar Süss: The Palatinate in the Black Book. A personal historical contribution to the history of the Hambach Festival, early Palatinate and German liberalism. Heidelberg 1956, pp. 93-95.