Christian Wiederhold

Johann Christian Wiederhold (* 18th January 1775 in Marburg ; † 10. February 1832 in Kassel ) was a professor of jurisprudence , judges and last Kurhessischer Justice and Home Affairs and President of the Hessian general government ministry.

family

Wiederhold's father, Johann Heinrich (Henrich) Wiederhold, was Hesse-Darmstädter Hofrat , Assessor at the Criminal Court of Marburg responsible for the Upper Duchy and between 1776 and 1803 mayor of Marburg six times ; he was last president of the Westphalian criminal court in Marburg, which was responsible for the Werra department, and died in 1813. His mother was Friederike Karoline nee. Dörr, eldest daughter of Johann Christian Dörr, advisor to the Electoral Palatinate Marriage Court in Mannheim .

He married Katharine Elisabeth Friederike Gleim in Marburg in 1798, the only daughter of the doctor Wilhelm Heinrich Ludwig Gleim and his wife Christine Eleonore geb. Brew man. After her death that same year as a result of complications after the birth of her daughter Friederike Karoline, who died as an infant, he married Friederike Hermine Wißmann in February 1801, who gave birth to their son Ludwig Heinrich on November 25, 1801 . He also became a lawyer and judge, was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848 and died in 1850.

academic career

After attending the pedagogy in Darmstadt , from 1790 to 1795, Wiederhold first studied English, French, history and philosophy and finally law at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he received his doctorate in 1795. jur. received his doctorate . He then held as a lecturer in Marburg lectures in government and feudal law, canon law, international law, German imperial history and modern German and Hessian history. At the end of October 1797 he was appointed full professor and assessor of the law faculty at the University of Rinteln , where he began his service after finishing his work in Marburg in April 1798 and became second professor in the same year.

Legal and political career

In 1804, Wiederhold was also a legal advisor to the government of the Hesse-Kassel county of Schaumburg in Rinteln . After the interlude of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia 1807-1813, he was first a councilor in 1814 and, in December 1816, as the successor to Wilhelm August von Meyerfeld, who was transferred to Fulda , director of the Hessian provincial government in Rinteln. On July 23, 1821, he was appointed director of the newly created higher court for the province of Lower Hesse in Kassel, which was decreed by the organizational edict in June to separate the jurisdiction from the administration . In 1831 he was transferred to the higher court for the county of Schaumburg in Rinteln in the same position .

In addition, he was elected on March 26, 1831 as a member of the cities of the county of Schaumburg to the first Landtag of the Electorate of Hesse according to the Electoral Hesse constitution of 1831 , which came into force in January 1831 ; however, he was denied the electoral confirmation of the presidential election that had fallen on him. He was a member of the delegation of the estates, which tried to persuade the elector Wilhelm II, who had fled to Hanau , to return to Kassel in September 1831 , and instead succeeded in appointing Prince Elector Friedrich Wilhelm as co-regent and taking over the business of government. Since Wilhelm II never returned to Kassel, this actually amounted to an abdication . The moderately liberal Wiederhold was then appointed by the Prince Regent as Minister of the Interior and Justice of the Electorate of Hesse in September , and in October 1831 he was also appointed President of the State Ministry of the State of Hesse.

Wiederhold died after less than five months in office on February 10, 1832. As his successor, the Prince Regent appointed the reactionary Ludwig Hassenpflug as Minister of the Interior and Justice and de facto Prime Minister in May 1832 .

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian Scholar and Writer History , Vol. 17: From the Reformation to 1806 , ed. by Karl Wilhelm Justi. Marburg 1819, pp. 39-44.
• Philipp Losch : The Members of the Electoral Hesse State Assemblies from 1830 to 1866 , Elwert, Marburg 1909, p. 239.
• Harald Höffner: Kurhessens Ministerialvorstand the constitutional period 1831–1866 , phil. Diss., Giessen 1981.
• Hellmut Seier (Ed.): Files and letters from the beginnings of the Hessian constitutional period 1830–1837 , Elwert, Marburg 1992 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , Vol. 48, 4; Prehistory and History of Parliamentarism in Hesse , Vol. 8 ), ISBN 3-7708-0993-9 , p. 133, note 2.
• Ewald Grothe: Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the First Era Hassenpflug 1830–1837 , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 (= writings on constitutional history , vol. 48), ISBN 3-428-08509-4 .
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen 1808-1996. Biographical Index , Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 978-3-7708-1071-0 , p. 409.
• Ewald Grothe (Ed.), Armin Sieburg (edit.): The Members of the Electoral Hesse State Assemblies 1830–1866 (= Political and Parliamentary History of the State of Hesse , Vol. 43), Historical Commission for Hesse, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3- 942225-33-5 , p. 127.

Web links

• Wiederhold, Johann Christian. In: Hessian biography at LAGIS

Footnotes

1. ↑ In 1651, the Grafschaft Schaumburg received its own government with a higher court because of its remote location from the landgrave's residence city of Kassel .
2. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story, from 1831 to the most recent time , vol. 20, ed. by Otto Gerland. Freyschmidt, Kassel 1863, p. 239, note.
3. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story, from 1831 to the most recent time , vol. 20, ed. by Otto Gerland. Freyschmidt, Kassel 1863, p. 239, note.