Eduard Ludwig von Harnier

Grave of Eduard Ludwig von Harnier in the main cemetery in Frankfurt

Caspar Simon Eduard Ludwig von Harnier (born January 23, 1800 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 16, 1868 ibid) was a German lawyer and politician.

ancestors

The Harnier family came from Wallonia and is a Huguenot family who immigrated to Germany around 1650. His parents were father Louis Harnier (1768–1855) and his wife Christine Arstenius (born March 4, 1764; February 13, 1822). His father was a co-founder and partner in the Rüppel und Harnier bank in Frankfurt.

life and work

Harnier attended the municipal high school in Frankfurt from 1815 to 1817 and then studied law in Göttingen and Heidelberg . During his studies he became a member of the old Heidelberg fraternity in 1817 . After graduating, he traveled extensively before finally settling down as a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main. In 1825 he was appointed council clerk and in 1831 he was elected to the Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt . In 1843 he advanced to the bench and in 1845 became a syndic.

In 1837, 1839 and 1841 he was elected junior mayor , and in 1855, 1857 and 1859 senior mayor . As Senator and Syndic, he was significantly involved in all important contractual negotiations with the Free City of Frankfurt, including the trade agreement with England (1832), the purchase of the former Johanniter commander from Emperor Ferdinand I (1841) and the contracts with the Teutonic Knights Order , with which the city of Frankfurt acquired complete sovereignty over the village of Niederrad in 1842 and took over the possessions of the order on the territory of the Free City and in 1845 the Deutschherrnhaus in Sachsenhausen .

In 1847 Harnier represented the city in Leipzig at the conference on the drafting of the General German Exchange Order and in 1850/51 at the Dresden ministerial conferences . From January 7 to May 17, 1848 and from 1851 to 1860, Harnier was envoy of the four Free Cities to the Bundestag .

When he left active service in 1862, Harnier was raised to the Austrian nobility . He died on April 16, 1868. His grave is in the main cemetery in Frankfurt .

family

He married on May 17, 1827 in Frankfurt am Main , the Anna Christina Louisa Lindheimer (2 January * 1804, † April 17, 1859), she was the daughter of the big merchant Andreas Daniel Ludwig Lindheimer and his wife Susanna Barbara Schindler . The couple had several children including:

• Sophie Susanne (1828–1902) ⚭ 1852 Franz Osterrieth, wholesale merchant (* May 4, 1823; † November 27, 1896)
• Caspar Wilhelm Eduard (1829-1917)
• Anna Elise Luise Christine (1831–1911) ⚭ 1862 Georg Wilhelm Wagner
• Ludwig Adolf (1833–1918), Dr. jur., Royal Prussian Privy Councilor of Justice

See also

• List of city leaders of Frankfurt am Main

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 239-240.
• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 302 f .
• Friedrich Clemens Ebrard :  Harnier, Eduard von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, p. 16 f.

Web links

• "Harnier, Caspar Simon Eduard Ludwig". Hessian biography. (As of April 16, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Franz Osterrieth at Geneva Genealogy Society

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Friedrich von Meyer	Frankfurt envoy to the German Confederation 1848, 1851 to 1860	Samuel Gottlieb Müller