Carl Laudia

Carl Laudien (born October 4, 1799 in Königsberg , † February 27, 1856 in Hohenstein ) was a Prussian lawyer and councilor. From June 1848 to May 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

Carl Laudien was the son of the preacher at the Altroßgärter Church in Königsberg Gottfried Laudien. His father later became pastor of Kumehnen . Carl attended the Friedrichskollegium in Königsberg, which he left without a high school diploma . He began training as a surveyor , but at the same time received instruction in agricultural work. In 1826 he married Agathe Landmann, the daughter of the rector of Graudenz . A year later he began to study law at the Albertina in Königsberg . Since he could not present a high school diploma, the study was only possible with special permission. Laudien was initially a legal assistant, until 1834 economics and district justice commissioner at the general commission in Königsberg and from 1834 to 1838 chief commissioner at the government in Gumbinnen . From 1838 he was government and state economics councilor in Gumbinnen and as such since 1846 with the government in Königsberg.

In the election to the Frankfurt National Assembly on May 10, 1848, in constituency 7, which included the districts of Goldap and Oletzko , Hans von Auerswald from Breslau was elected as deputy and regional president Gustav von Saltzwedel from Gumbinnen was elected as deputy. However, Auerswald did not accept the mandate , Saltzwedel had already been elected a member of the electoral district 5. In the 7th electoral district there was therefore neither a deputy nor a deputy. Following an instruction from Berlin, the President had new elections held in Königsberg on May 30, 1848. As a result of the election, the election commissioner to Koenigsberg was able to report that Professor Rosenkranz from Koenigsberg was elected as deputy and city court assessor Muttray from Marggrabowa as deputy. There were also problems after this ballot, as Rosenkranz announced his rejection just one day after the election. Rosenkranz wrote to the senior president in Königsberg that he had already rejected a mandate from his hometown Magdeburg. The deputy Muttray could not take over the mandate either, as he had to reckon that he would not be appointed in a new election. On June 15, 1848, the third ballot took place in Goldap. The majority of the electors gave their votes to Government Council Laudien, Assessor Muttray was again appointed as deputy.

In a report by the Upper President in Königsberg of September 17, 1848 to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior in Berlin, it was confirmed that the Government and State Economics Council Laudien had been a member of parliament in Frankfurt since June. On June 27, 1848, Laudien's name was not yet mentioned in the voting lists, but on June 29, he already took part in the election of Johann von Österreich as imperial administrator . In the Paulskirche in Frankfurt he belonged to the centrally oriented Landsberg faction . Together with his parliamentary group colleague Constantin Marcus and 18 other MPs, he submitted a motion on September 14, 1848 on the controversial question of the Malmö armistice in the Schleswig-Holstein War in which the competences of the central authority should be determined. On February 13, 1849, he supported a motion that provided that meetings of the individual state parliaments should not coincide with those of the imperial assembly. In the election to the German Emperor on March 28, 1849, he gave his vote to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Since mid-May 1849 Laudien no longer participated in the meetings of the National Assembly, but his name was still listed in the attendance lists as unexcused . He had not given a declaration of the voluntary ride.

After his parliamentary work, he initially continued to work as a government and state economics councilor in Königsberg. For his services he was awarded the Red Eagle Order, 4th class. From 1855 Carl Laudien was special commissioner in the agricultural department of the Königsberg government in Hohenstein, where he died on February 27, 1856 at the age of 56.

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 78–81.

Web links

• Entry about Carl Laudien in the parliamentarian portal (BIOPARL)