Carl Wilhelm Hoppenstedt

Carl Wilhelm Hoppenstedt (also: Karl Wilhelm Hoppenstedt and variants with Hoppenstädt ; * October 1, 1769 in Groß Schwülper near Celle ; † July 26, 1826 in Hanover ) was a German legal scholar and university lecturer and Secretary General of the Cabinet Ministry in the Kingdom of Hanover .

Live and act

Carl Wilhelm Hoppenstedt was born as the son of Wilhelm Johann Julius Hoppenstedt (1726–1788), pastor among others at the garden church in Hanover , and Luise Henriette Steigerthal (1742–1821). Among his nine siblings were August Ludwig Hoppenstedt and Georg Ernst Friedrich Hoppenstedt . Karl Wilhelm Hoppenstedt spent his school days at the Lyceum in Hanover and went to the University of Göttingen to study philosophy and theology . Here he was tutor for Johannes Georg Ludwig Nieper (1778-1832), the son of his future brother-in-law Georg Heinrich Nieper, during his student days . He also completed his law studies under Georg Ludwig Böhmer , his future father-in-law, which he obtained in 1796 with his doctorate as Dr. jur. completed. The law faculty then took him over as assessor, soon promoted him to private lecturer and in 1802 to associate professor and appointed him a member of the panel of judges. In addition, in those years after the death of his father-in-law, Hoppenstedt was heavily involved in the publication of his previously unpublished accounts and analyzes of “selected legal cases from all parts of legal scholarship” in several volumes after he had meticulously collected, sorted and revised them.

In 1803, Hoppenstedt accepted a call to Gotha , where he was given the position of ducal government councilor and member of the consistory and tax committee with a seat and vote in the government of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg . Here he was appointed Knight of the Kgl in 1816 for his services. Prussian Red Eagle Order III. Class honored. A year later, Hoppenstedt was recalled as a secret councilor with the rank of colonel in the Royal Hanoverian service. In 1822 he was finally appointed Secret Cabinet Councilor and Secretary General of the Cabinet Ministry under Karl Friedrich von Arnswaldt . A year earlier he received the award of a knight and in 1822 a commander of the Guelph Order .

From 1824 Hoppenstedt had to gradually withdraw from his functions due to illness. Before his untimely death in 1826, his brother and acting city director of Hanover, Georg Ernst Friedrich Hoppenstedt, was appointed to take his place in the government.

Carl Wilhelm Hoppenstedt's gravestone can be found in the garden cemetery in Hanover.

Another family

Karl Wilhelm Hoppenstedt was married to Sophie Dorothea Philippine Boehmer (1770–1801), the youngest daughter of the Privy Councilor Georg Ludwig Böhmer, who died after three years of marriage as a result of a miscarriage. Later he married Friederike Jäger (1786–1833), daughter of a consistorial president, although it is not known whether this marriage resulted in further descendants.

Fonts (selection)

• De iure circa fructus feudi aperti ante eius reinfeudationem maxime intuitu expectativarii . Dissertation, Dieterich, Göttingen 1796.
• Georg Ludwig Boehmers ... exquisite legal cases, collected and published from all parts of legal scholarship after his death . 3 volumes, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1799–1802.
• Legal execution of the claims of the high princely house of Wied to the lands that belonged to the county of Nieder-Isenburg that were left by Count Ernst in 1664 . Dieterich, Göttingen 1804.
• Record-based representation of the incidents that took place last summer at the University of Göttingen . Hahn, Hanover 1818.

literature

• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teuschland or lexicon of the now living German writers , Volume 22, Part 2, Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1805, p. 837.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Hoppenstedt (Carl Wilhelm) , in ders .: The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and still live in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover since the Reformation the most credible writers compiled, Vol. 2, Bremen: Carl Schünemann, 1823, p. 407; limited preview in Google Book search
• Albert Hüne: Carl Wilhelm Hoppenstedt . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Vol. 4 (1828), ed. by Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, pp. 440–445.
• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 3: Hanover under the Kurhut 1646-1815 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1916 (edited posthumously by his wife A. Rothert and M. Peters), p. 500
• Hans-Thorald Michaelis : History of the von Boehmer family - In continuation of the genealogy, written by Hugo Erich von Boehmer in 1892, of the Boehmer and von Boehmer families descended from Justus Henning Boehmer as well as some of the families related to them. Rheinische Verlagsanstalt, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1978, pp. 78–84.
• Klaus Mlynek : Hoppenstedt, (1) Carl Wilhelm. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 178; limited preview in Google Book search
• Hans Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenbergs Hörer , Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, p. 311 f. ( Google Books ).

Archival material

• Archive documents of the Boehmer family association

Web links

• Fonts in the joint union catalog (GVK)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Klaus Mlynek: Hoppenstedt, (1) Carl Wilhelm. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen (eds.): Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. From the beginning to the present . Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 178.
2. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
3. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the inscription on the tomb in the garden cemetery in Hanover; Photo and copy also as PDF document on the Gartenfriedhof.de website .