Franz Anton Blum

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Franz Anton Joseph Johannes Nikolaus Blum (* 1758 in Hildesheim ; † August 22, 1823 there ) was a German lawyer and member of parliament.

Blum was the son of Franz Joseph Blum († 1790), court and government councilor, land rent master and advocatus patriae ( public prosecutor ) in Hildesheim and his wife Maria Theresa née Thon-Nienhauss. Blum, who was a Catholic denomination, married Maria Aemilia Niemeyer on July 14, 1792 in Hildesheim.

He attended the Josephinum Hildesheim high school and studied law at the Universities of Helmstedt and Strasbourg. After completing his studies, he became the Princely Hildesheim Council and later Court and Government Councilor. From 1790 to 1802 he was Advocatus Patriae. In 1802 and 1803 he was Royal British and Kurbraunschweig-Lüneburgischer Hofrat in Hanover. In the Kingdom of Westphalia he was sub-prefect of the Hildesheim district from 1808 to 1812 . From June 2, 1808 to October 26, 1813 he was a member of the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia for the department of the Oker and the electoral group of landowners.

After the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia, he worked as a lawyer in Hildesheim. In 1813 he was by King George III. Commissioned by Hanover with the organization of the administration in the former Principality of Hildesheim and in 1815 awarded the title of a Privy Councilor of Justice . In 1816 he received the Guelph Order (knight). In 1820 he became director of the Catholic consistory in Hildesheim.

Although he was Catholic, Blum was a Freemason and a member of the Hildesheim lodge “Zum silent Tempel”.

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 78.
  • Jochen Lengemann: Parliaments in Hesse 1808–1813. Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-458-16185-6 , p. 120.

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SURNAME Blum, Franz Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blum, Franz Anton Joseph Johannes Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1823
Place of death Hildesheim