Carl Ferdinand Johannes Hahn

Carl Ferdinand Johannes Hahn (born January 29, 1801 in Braunsberg ; † January 23, 1876 in Guttstadt ) was a Prussian lawyer and judge . He was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly from 1848 to 1849 and a member of the Second Chamber of the Prussian State Parliament from 1850 to 1852 .

Life

family

Hahn was born as the son of the Prussian Justice Assessor Ignaz Hahn in Warmia in East Prussia . His mother Anna Katharina Hahn was a native of Poschmann. He was baptized Carl Ferdinand Johannes on January 7, 1802. His younger brother Otto Hahn also embarked on a legal career. Otto was elected district and city judge in the city of Bischofstein and as a member of the assembly for the agreement of the Prussian city constitution in Berlin .

Professional background

Carl Ferdinand Johannes attended high school in his hometown, which he left in the summer of 1819 after passing the Abitur . He was enrolled at the Albertina in Königsberg and began studying law . In 1832 he became a land and city judge in Guttstadt. Together with his brother Otto, he was also legal counsel at the third instance of the spiritual court in Frauenburg , the prosynodal court of the Diocese of Warmia .

In 1848 Hahn was elected a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in constituency 12 - it included the Warmia districts of Allenstein and Rößel . In the election protocol it was noted that he had received the votes of 76 electors , but that only 60 votes would have been required for an absolute majority. Hahn was first present on May 31, 1848 as a member of the Paulskirche in Frankfurt . He did not attract attention either as a speaker or as a member of a committee, but was one of the few MPs who had never absent from a meeting without excuse or who had asked for leave for family or other reasons. On April 30, 1849, at a session of the National Assembly, it was announced that the deputy Hahn had resigned his mandate for May 10. His elected deputy, Kaplan Stobbe from Warmia, also no longer took up his post as parliamentarian. On May 14, 1849, all MPs in the Kingdom of Prussia were informed by royal decree that the mandates were deemed to have expired.

In 1850 Hahn was appointed district judge in Guttstadt. On November 21, 1850, when the second legislative period of the second chamber of the Prussian state parliament was opened, he was represented as a member of the districts of Allenstein, Braunsberg and Heilsberg . A mandate that he held until 1852. Seven years later, on January 18, 1859, he received the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class, for his services, and in 1865 the title of Court Director.

Hahn died on January 23, 1876 at the age of 74 in Guttstadt.

Marriage and offspring

Hahn married on January 17, 1832 in Guttstadt Johanna Caroline Emilie (born March 1, 1814 in Guttstadt; † July 1866), the daughter of Guttstadt's mayor Anton Kroschewski. The couple had five children, three daughters and two sons. The youngest son Gustav Adolf Louis Hahn (born October 27, 1842) became the Prussian artillery general .

literature

• Bernhard-Maria Rosenberg: The East Prussian MPs in Frankfurt 1848/49. Biographical contributions to the history of political life in East Prussia. Grote, Berlin / Cologne 1970. Pages 58–62.

Web links

• Carl Ferdinand Johannes Hahn . In: Heinrich Best : The members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/1849 (BIORAB-FRANKFURT) (the exact data set must be found).