Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer

Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer (born May 7, 1777 in Kassel ; † October 4, 1852 there ) was a German lawyer and liberal politician.

Pfeiffer was the son of the Reformed theology professor and consistorial councilor in Marburg Johann Jakob Pfeiffer and his wife Luise Rebekka Rüppel. He was married to Louise Harnier since 1801. Franz Pfeiffer was a brother.

Life

Pfeiffer studied law at the University of Marburg and received his doctorate there in 1798. He was initially a government archivist from 1805. Then he worked at the Court of Appeal of the Kingdom of Westphalia . From 1813 he worked as a councilor in Kassel. He worked from 1817 to 1820 and from 1821 to 1843 as a judge at the Hessian Higher Appeal Court in Kassel. In 1820 he was briefly employed at the Lübeck Higher Appeal Court . In the years 1830 to 1832 he was first a member of the constituent state parliament and then of the first electoral state assembly for the farmers of the Diemelstrom . He was u. a. involved in the drafts of the Hessian constitution of 1831 . In 1832/33 he was elected in the phase of the disbanded state parliament since July 1832 to the board of the permanent state committee. Because of his decidedly liberal stance, he got into a violent conflict with the government under Interior and Justice Minister Ludwig Hassenpflug .

After the title of his major work in several volumes, he was nicknamed "the practical Pfeiffer".

Works

• Practical explanations from all parts of jurisprudence. With the findings of the Cassel Higher Appeal Court , 8 vols., Hanover 1825–1846.
• A few words about the draft of a constitutional document for the Electorate of Hesse from October 7, 1830 , Cassel undated [1830].
• Representation of the situation of the state business relationships when the meeting of the estates was dissolved on July 26, 1832, in the name of the permanent state committee drafted by its executive board , undated, undated [Kassel 1832].
• History of the state constitution in Kurhessen. A contribution to the appreciation of the more recent German constitutions in general. Taken from authentic sources , Cassel 1834.
• Pointers for all German assemblies , Cassel 1849.

literature

• Rudolf Bovensiepen: Wilhelm Pfeiffer . In: Ingeborg Schnack (Ed.): Life pictures from Kurhessen and Waldeck 1830–1930 . Vol. 2, Marburg 1940, pp. 308-321.
• Ewald Grothe : Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the first era Hassenpflug 1830–1837 , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 (= writings on the history of the constitution , 48), ISBN 3-428-08509-4 .
• Hans Hattenhauer : Burchard Wilhelm Pfeiffer and the peasant liberation in Kurhessen. An exegesis , in: Sten Gagnér / Hans Schlosser / Wolfgang Wiegand (eds.): Festschrift for Hermann Krause , Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1975, pp. 188–209.
• Edgar Liebmann: Pfeiffer, Burkhard Wilhelm . In: Kassel Lexicon . Edited by der Stadt Kassel, Vol. 2, euregio, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-933617-40-8 , p. 131.
• Jürgen Nolte: Burchard Wilhelm Pfeiffer. Thoughts on the reform of civil law. A contribution to the history of German civil law . Goettingen 1969.
• August Ludwig Pfeiffer: The Pfeiffer family , Kassel 1886.
• Hellmut Seier (Ed.): Files and letters from the beginnings of the Hessian constitutional period 1830–1837 , edit. from dems. and Ewald Grothe, Elwert, Marburg 1992 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 48.4; Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse , 8), ISBN 3-7708-0993-9 .
• Frank Theisen: Between power and independence. Hessian jurisprudence from 1821–1848 , Böhlau, Cologne 1997, ISBN 978-3-412-02997-5 .
• Karl HL Welker :  Pfeiffer, Burchard Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 324 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Karl Wippermann:  Pfeiffer, Burkhard Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 633 f.

Web links

• Pfeiffer, Burkard Wilhelm. Hessian biography. (As of December 20, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).