Franz Adams the Elder
Franz Peter Adams (also: Franz Adams the Elder ) (born February 17, 1800 in Springiersbach ; † August 21, 1868 in Koblenz ) was a German lawyer and member of the preliminary parliament and the Frankfurt National Assembly from 1848.
Life
Franz Peter Anton Ernst Adams was born in Springiersbach near Trier as the son of the notary Johannes Adams. In 1818 he began studying law at the universities of Bonn and Heidelberg . In Bonn he belonged to the Old Bonn Burschenschaft / Reading Society in 1818 . In 1826 he married Elisabeth Lenné in Koblenz , sister of the famous landscape gardener and general director of the royal Prussian gardens, Peter Joseph Lenné , with whom he had seven children. With the beginning of his legal practice in 1826 he founded a law firm in Koblenz, which was continued by his second son Philipp Joseph Franz Adolf Adams ( Franz Adams the Younger , 1828-1891) and still exists there today under a different name. From 1831 until his death in 1868 he was an attorney-at-law in Koblenz, and from 1834 a legal advisor.
In addition to his legal work in Koblenz, he was politically active in the municipal council in Koblenz. In the revolution of 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament and the national assembly, of which he was a member from May 18, 1848 to October 9, 1848. There he represented constituency XIII of the Rhine Province (Koblenz). He belonged to the casino parliamentary group and was a member of the committees for the priority of petitions and motions and for the review of the elections in Thiengen and Constance. His constituency successor was Jacob Philipp Caspers .
His son Franz Adams the Younger surpassed him in honorary positions and prestige. His fourth son Clemens Joseph Adams (1831–1876) became the first mayor of the city of Honnef (today Bad Honnef ).
literature
- Franz Adams the Elder . In: Heinrich Best : The members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/1849 (BIORAB-FRANKFURT) (the exact data set must be found).
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 4. (with picture)
- Karl Krammes (Author) and Alfons Friderichs (Eds.): Adams, Franz-Peter , In: “Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District” , Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 26.
Web links
- Entry on Franz Adams the Elder in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
- ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 4.
- ↑ Erich Klinge: One hundred and seventy years of a law firm, On the history of a Koblenz law firm 1826-1996.
- ↑ a b Best / Weege
- ↑ Michael Koelges: The Revolution of 1848-49 in Koblenz . City Archives Koblenz 2008, Chapter 4, p. 2.
- ↑ Koblenz heads ( Memento from December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adams, Franz the Elder |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adams, Franz Peter Anton Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lawyer and member of the preliminary parliament and the Frankfurt National Assembly |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th February 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Springiersbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1868 |
| Place of death | Koblenz |