Carl Franz Nikolaus Bucholtz

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Carl Franz Nikolaus Bucholtz

Carl Franz Nikolaus Bucholtz (born November 9, 1809 in Cloppenburg , † May 27, 1887 in Eutin ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . From 1871 to 1885 he was the regional president of the Principality of Lübeck, which belongs to Oldenburg .

Life

Bucholtz came from an old family of civil servants in the Oldenburger Münsterland that can be traced back to the 16th century . He was the son of Franz Joseph Buchholtz and his first wife Marie Elisabeth geb. Lückmann. His father worked as a lawyer and since 1832 as a regional court assessor in Cloppenburg. Bucholtz grew up there and attended the Vechta high school . He then studied law at the University of Heidelberg from 1830 to 1834 . In the following year he entered the Oldenburg state service and initially worked as an official auditor in Burhave and Rodenkirchen . In 1840 he became secretary to the government in Oldenburg and quickly made contact with the leading circles in the royal seat . In 1841 he joined the literary and sociable association in which the open-minded and reform-minded members of the bureaucracy and the academic bourgeoisie gathered. Together with Maximilian Heinrich Rüder , Dietrich Christian von Buttel and Adolf Stahr , he published the Neue Blätter für Stadt und Land in 1843 , the first liberal newspaper that wanted to educate the population to participate in political life and advocated the introduction of a constitution . Just a year later, Bucholtz, like Buttel and Stahr, withdrew from the editorial board again, presumably because as a civil servant he could not and did not want to take on a leading role in the gradually emerging democratic opposition movement .

Bucholtz, who was appointed Regierungsassessor 1845, belonged to the pre-March to the small group of Oldenburg officials who tried the absolutist ruled statelet to modernize and in the sense of cautious liberalism advocated the participation of citizens in political life. After the outbreak of the German Revolution Bucholtz was that of Grand Duke August I used on May 17, 1848 Commission called the one to the Hessian elaborated ajar constitution draft the Basic Law, which should form the basis for the proceedings of Parliament. Together with the senior court attorney Laurenz Wilhelm Fischer , Bucholtz published a commentary on this draft, in which they summarized and justified the demands of pre-March liberalism for the creation of a monarchical constitutional state. With his appointment as ministerial assessor in the State and Cabinet Ministry and as a consultant in the Department of the Interior , Bucholtz reached a key position in July 1848, which ensured him a strong personal influence on the creation and final design of the Oldenburg constitution. Like several of his political companions, he changed from a moderate liberal to a moderate conservative during this time . This development was also reinforced by the now all-German approach. With the implementation of the constitution, the formerly liberal reformers had achieved their goals. Now it was a matter of preserving what had been achieved and blocking further democratic changes in the face of the democratic and radical movement that was beginning to become visible. Bucholtz therefore endeavored to secure the monarch's rights vis-à-vis the Oldenburg Landtag, to which he himself belonged as a member in 1850/51 . He was the leading figure in the revision of the constitution for the revised state constitution for the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg on November 22, 1852, which weakened the role of the state parliament. In the same year he also helped as government commissioner at the 5th state parliament to enforce the new constitution against the rest of parliament and the government. The new electoral law that introduced three-tier suffrage was largely his work. Due to his official position as a consultant in the Department of the Interior, he was significantly involved in all draft laws in the following years, which he often represented and fought through in the state parliament. In addition, he dealt intensively with the reform of internal administration and the creation of a modern cabinet system with responsible ministers, which was also introduced in 1868.

Bucholtz quickly made a career in these years. In 1851 he was appointed Ministerial Councilor, in 1860 promoted to the Secret Ministerial Councilor and in 1867 awarded the title of Councilor of State . In 1869 he became a lecturer in the Department of the Interior and from 1867 to 1871, in addition to his previous duties, he took over the office of Federal Councilor in Berlin . On August 24, 1871, he was appointed as the successor to Johann Ernst Greverus as the district president of the Principality of Lübeck, an exclave of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg in Holstein , where he held office until his retirement on July 1, 1885. In recent years, however, the management slipped from him more and more due to illnesses.

family

Bucholtz was married to Friederike Catharina Elisabeth born on September 3, 1843. Stalling (1822–1891), the daughter of the publisher Johann Heinrich Stalling (1789–1882) and Marianne geb. Wiemken (1799-1875). From the marriage came the son Franz Heinrich Alexander (1846–1905), who also later became the Oldenburg Federal Councilor in Berlin.

Awards

Works

  • The so-called temperance associations in their importance on national wealth and morality, especially the Butjadinger association after its creation, contestation and establishment. Oldenburg. 1838.
  • Business calendar for the officials of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the Jever inheritance. Oldenburg. 1843.
  • Explanations on the draft of a constitutional state law for the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. Together with Laurenz Wilhelm Fischer. Oldenburg. 1848.
  • Memories from Eutin court life. Published in the Oldenburg Yearbooks . Volume 11. 1907. Pages 103–128.

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SURNAME Bucholtz, Carl Franz Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and politician in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Cloppenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1887
Place of death Eutin