Carl Gamradt

Carl Ludwig Adolf Gamradt (also Karl Gamradt ; born October 26, 1810 in Königsberg , † June 5, 1860 in Pillupönen, Stallupönen district ) was a Prussian district administrator in the Stallupönen district. In 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and from 1849 to 1855 a member of the Second Chamber of the Prussian Landtag and from 1855 to 1860 of the Prussian House of Representatives.

Life

Carl Ludwig Adolf Gamradt was born as the son of the Prussian City Justice Council Christian Ludwig Gamradt. His mother Theodora Wilhelmine was born Hoffmann. Although he was not a high school exam could demonstrate a high school, he was at the law school of the May 1829 Albertina enrolled.

In 1839 he was employed as an assessor at the regional and municipal court in Ragnit . In the same year he married Friederike Louise Felskau on May 16 in the Marienkirche in Gdansk . He resigned from the judicial service in 1841 and became district administrator of the Stallupönen district. In 1843 he was able to acquire the Pillupönen manor . In the revolutionary year of 1848, Gamradt had a merchant arrested for frank speech and only released on deposit of 1,000 thalers . Thereupon an angry citizenry moved to his manor house, which also served as the district administrator's seat, and threatened him. Only through the determined demeanor of his wife could the destruction and looting of the estate be prevented. The dragoon unit, which arrived a short time later from Pillupönen, no longer had to intervene. The supporters of the revolt received long imprisonment terms after a court case, but these were invalidated by an amnesty .

Already on May 10, 1848, Gamradt was appointed deputy to Gustav von Saltzwedel , a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for electoral district 5 in the districts of Pillkallen and Gumbinnen . Saltzwedel resigned from his mandate on March 31, his resignation was announced only a few days earlier. Gamradt was appointed as his successor by the Upper President in Königsberg. On April 1, 1849, it was officially announced in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt that Mr. Gamradt from Stallupönen had taken office as a member of parliament. From the following day on, he is only included in the list of unexcused absent MPs, without ever having made an official declaration of resignation.

In July 1849, with the votes of the electors from the Stallupönen and Pillkallen districts, he was elected a member of the Second Chamber of the Prussian Landtag in Berlin. His mandate was confirmed in the elections in 1852, 1855 and 1858. In the House of Representatives, he was a member of the middle party and later of the right-wing liberal association of MP Mathis.

Carl Ludwig Adolf Gamradt committed at the age of 49 years, due to shattered financial circumstances, on June 5, 1860 Pillupönen suicide . Some time before he asked to be dismissed from the Prussian civil service. The Prussian King Wilhelm I had granted the request on May 27, 1860, but the document was no longer sent, it was put on file.

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, pp. 49-50.

Web links

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