August Marshal von Bieberstein

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August Freiherr Marshal von Bieberstein

Baron August Friedrich Marschall von Bieberstein (born July 4, 1804 in Karlsruhe , † November 18, 1888 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Baden lawyer and diplomat .

origin

August Marschall von Bieberstein came from the Meissen noble family Marschall von Bieberstein . He was a son of the later Baden State Minister Karl Wilhelm Marschall von Bieberstein (1773-1817) and his wife Wilhelmine geb. von Reck (1782-1856). The younger brother Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein (1806-1891) was Baden's interior minister and envoy of the Grand Duchy of Baden in Berlin.

Life

From 1812 to 1817 during the time of his father's embassy at the Württemberg court, Marschall attended the Lyceum in Stuttgart and from 1817 the Lyceum in Karlsruhe. Since April 29, 1822 he studied law and political science at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and since May 4, 1824 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In Göttingen he was active in the Corps Bado-Württembergia. He returned to Heidelberg at Easter 1825 and passed the legal state examination in 1826. He started as a legal intern at the Freiburg municipal office in the Baden state service. After interning at the court court in Freiburg and at the directorate of the Dreisamkreis, he went to France for a year at the end of 1828, first to Dijon and later to Paris to study French law and to further deepen his knowledge of French.

In March 1830 he joined the Baden Ministry of Justice as a secretary and in 1831 was appointed court judge in Mannheim. He was then appointed as Legation Counselor to the Ministry of the Grand Ducal House and Foreign Affairs. In this position he spent 10 years, most recently as Council Chairman. During this time he participated in the work of the Legislative Commission. It was about the revision of the draft of the Baden penal code in terms of constitutional and police matters. Another commission, in which Marschall participated, prepared bills on amendments to the court system and the criminal procedure for the state parliament. Marschall took an active part in the meetings of the Estates Assembly as government commissioner and from 1841 to 1845 as a member of the First Chamber, especially when it came to deliberating on the penal code.

In 1843, in addition to his full-time work in the ministry, he received the additional post of Minister-Resident in Switzerland. In 1845 he became an extraordinary member of the Baden State Council and in the same year he became the government director and head of the government of the Upper Rhine District . In addition, the position of a curator of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg took place for the duration of his office at the Upper Rhine District. In 1850, the First Chamber of the Estates Assembly sent him to the Erfurt Union Parliament . After the restoration of the German Confederation , Marschall was appointed Baden envoy to the Bundestag in 1851 . There he tried as far as possible to mediate between the conflicting interests of the two German great powers Austria and Prussia and wanted the medium-sized states to agree to compromises between the two great powers, if these came about. So he rejected the triad idea in principle. In 1857, Marshal received the dignity of a Real Secret Council .

In the early 1860s, in the run-up to the Wars of Unification, there was a change in political conditions and Marshal was withdrawn from the Bundestag. Instead, he was given the position of chief judge and thus became head of the Baden Supreme Court. In 1871 he was retired.

Private life

August Marschall von Bieberstein married Ida Freiin von Falkenstein (1810–1857) in 1839. The marriage resulted in two sons, including Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein , who later became State Secretary of the Foreign Office . In 1860 August Marschall von Bieberstein married Adelheid Freiin von Falkenstein (1814–1893), the sister of his late first wife. After his retirement in 1871, Marschall took up his main residence in Freiburg, where the family of his younger brother Adolf (1806-1891) also lived.

Honors

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Bernhardi: Corps Bado-Württembergia zu Göttingen 1824 to 1829 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, special issue 1960, pp. 28–35, here p. 33
personal data
SURNAME Marshal von Bieberstein, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marshal von Bieberstein, August Friedrich Freiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden lawyer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1888
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau