Franz Ferdinand Gellern

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Franz Ferdinand Gellern (born January 15, 1800 in Hausberge ; † March 6, 1879 in Minden ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Gellern was the son of Carl Heinrich Gellern and his wife Christine Wilhelmine (née Klostermann). He studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1821 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Bonn . In 1822 he joined the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . From 1824 he was first assessor at the Patrimonial Court Petershagen , married Flora Elise Stammelbach in 1833 and later became a district judge in Minden. In 1845 Friedrich Wilhelm IV awarded him the title of judiciary .

Gellern moved in 1848 as a member of the city Minden in the Prussian National Assembly and the closed Harkort fraction of.

For the constituency of Minden 1, Gellern sat in the 1st legislative period in 1849 (right center), in the 2nd legislative period from 1849 until the resignation of the mandate in 1851 (non-attached), in the 3rd legislative period from 1852 to 1855 (left) and in the 5th parliamentary term. Legislative period from 1859 to 1861 (Mathis fraction) in the Prussian House of Representatives .

As a bourgeois descendant of a north German noble family , whose West Prussian branch had tried in vain to renew their nobility title in 1778 , he was politically right and worked against early social politicians such as Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch , among others .

Franz Mehring mentions, for example, in his History of German Social Democracy , how Gellern, together with the Member of the Higher Regional Court Judge Joseph Tüshaus , tactics in an amendment to the law introduced by Lothar Bucher and Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch.

literature

  • Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 , p. 105.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 21 , 20
  2. Kösener corps lists 1910, 112 , 197
  3. Directory of the elected representatives and deputies of the assembly in Berlin to be appointed to agree the Prussian state constitution in the province of Westphalia . In: Royal Prussian Government (Hrsg.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government in Minden . 1848, piece 23, p.  148 ( books.google.de - archive.org ).
  4. ^ Franz Mehring : History of the German Social Democracy. Second volume: Until the Prussian constitutional dispute . 5th edition. JHW Dietz Nachf., Stuttgart 1913, p.  54 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).