Conrad Abée

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Conrad Abée (born April 23, 1806 in Wolfhagen ; † November 8, 1873 in Marburg an der Lahn ) was a Hessian politician and minister .

origin

He comes from a surgeon family of non- Huguenot descent and was related to Ernst Abbe . His parents were the official surgeon Johann Christoph Wilhelm Abée (1765–1819) and his wife Anna Catharina born. Corner.

Life

Abée grew up in poor conditions. While he was still in school, he began working as an official clerk . After graduating from high school in Fulda in 1830, he studied law and philosophy at the University of Marburg . There he joined the "old fraternity Alemannia". In 1833 he became a trainee lawyer in the Ministry of Justice of the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel in Kassel . There he became secretary in 1835, lecturing councilor in 1843 and cabinet counselor in 1846.

In 1848 he was transferred to Rinteln as a senior judge. In 1853 he became president of the Hessian Higher Appeal Court. In 1858, Elector Friedrich Wilhelm sent him to the German Bundestag as representative of the Electorate of Hesse .

In 1860 he was appointed Minister of Justice , later also Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Electoral House. After the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia in 1866, he retired to Marburg, where he died in 1873.

family

He married Freiin Sophie von Wrede in Kassel in 1837 and had 12 children with her, including:

  • Emilie ∞ Eduard Vilmar (December 4, 1832 - March 30, 1872), Protestant theologian and orientalist
  • Carl Heinrich August Ernst (born September 16, 1843), Dr. med

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Ernst Abee: A case of aneurysm of the abdominal aorta (dissertation) digitized