Ernst Gottlob Morgenbesser

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Ernst Gottlob Morgenbesser (born September 21, 1755 in Breslau ; † July 22, 1824 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

At the Königsberg court he became assessor (1779), councilor (1780) and walker. Council of Justice (1787). On December 15, 1804 he became director of the East Prussian government . In the Combined Immediatkommission he advised Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein on the regulation of the mortgage system and on the Prussian city code . He was promoted to Vice President on March 25, 1809, and Chief President of the Government on January 3, 1820. East Prussia owes to him the formation of a large part of the judiciary, the organization of the lower courts and the draft of the provincial land law. In the spirit of Immanuel Kant , it says at the beginning of his contributions to the republican code of law :

“The state or the republic is the civil society of the people for the common guarantee of innate freedom. Just as every human being has the right to freedom, so is the obligation to maintain the freedom of his fellow human being innate. "

- Thank God Morgenbesser

In 1932 a street was named after him in the Königsberg settlement of Charlottenburg. A plaque at Collegiengasse 1 commemorated him.

Works

  • Contributions to the republican law book , Königsberg 1798. Facsimile: Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, edited and appended by Wolfgang Schild

literature

  • Prussian Privinzial-Blätter, Vol. 8 (1832), pp. 296-299.
  • Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 (= individual publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin, vol. 85), De Gruyter Saur 2009, ISBN 978-3598232299 , p. 655.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contributions to the Republican Code
  2. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
personal data
SURNAME Morgenbesser, Ernst Thank God
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer in Königsberg
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1824
Place of death Koenigsberg i. Pr.