Christian Knorr (politician)

Christian Karl Ludwig Knorr (also Christian Karl Ludwig Knorr von Rosenroth ) (born January 24, 1800 in Westerburg , † August 14, 1868 in Darmstadt ) was a Hessian civil servant and member of parliament.

Christian Knorr was the son of the Councilor Carl Christian Knorr (1771-1820) and his wife Eleonore nee Langsdorff (1778-1804). The higher appellate judge Ludwig Franz Gottlieb Knorr (1797–1866) was his brother. Knorr, who was a Protestant denomination, married on October 11, 1823 in Gießen Christiane born Buff (born August 14, 1798 in Gießen; † April 9, 1844 in Darmstadt), the daughter of the superintendent in Gießen Christoph Buff (1756-1826) and Katharina Elisabeth Eleonore née Bechtold (1767–1841). They had two sons:

• Ludwig Knorr (1827–1905), President of the District Court
• Heinrich Knorr (1830–1904), Privy Councilor of State

Christian Knorr studied law and became an assessor at the Friedberg Regional Court in 1821 . In 1826 he became district administrator in the Gießen district . In 1827 he moved to Giessen as a church and school councilor and in 1832 as a secular councilor at the Darmstadt Consistory . In 1841 he became director of the high school board and retired in 1848.

From 1835 to 1841 he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Estates. He was elected for the constituency of Oberhessen 10 / Butzbach .

literature

• Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , No. 454, pp. 155–156.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 218.

Web links

• Knorr, Christian Karl Ludwig in the Hessian biography