Franz Joseph Adolph Heinrich Schulze Pellengahr

Franz Joseph Adolph Heinrich Schulze Pellengahr (born November 23, 1796 in Ascheberg ; † March 4, 1829 ibid) was a (Roman Catholic) farmer and forester as well as a member of the state parliament .

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He was born on November 23, 1796 as the son of the married couple Johann Caspar Schulze Pellengahr and Anna Sybilla Bernhardina Freusberg gt. Schulte Steinhorst at the Steinhorst house near Ascheberg (Westphalia) as the fourth of a total of eleven children. After his older brother, Johann Adolph Antonius, signaled his interest in the medical profession early on - he studied medicine in Münster, Vienna and Berlin and later was the first director of the surgical clinic in Münster - Franz succeeded him in running his parents' farm and went through agricultural training. On October 19, 1824, he married Elisabeth Juliane Moormann (1801–1871) from Mettingen , with whom he moved to Steinhorst . This connection resulted in two children (son Caspar Hubert Gustav Schulze Pellengahr , who later became a politician and a daughter).

When King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia, with the law passed on June 5, 1823, "due to the arrangement of the provincial estates ", kept its constitutional promise of May 22, 1815 and ordered the convocation of state parliaments in the individual Prussian provinces (for the Prussian province of Westphalia then specifically in the implementation law of March 27 1824), a total of 20 representatives of the rural communities of the province were sought, who were to be elected by electors . At that time, the right to vote was limited to male residents who had to be at least 24 years old, belonged to a Christian denomination and had to have a taxable property or business property of a certain size in the constituency. The choice fell on the then 29-year-old Franz Schulze Pellengahr, who thus had to represent the rural communities of the Lüdinghausen district in the Münster-Ost electoral district in the First Westphalian state parliament. On October 29, 1826, the Landtag was opened by the Landtag Marshal , Karl vom und zum Stein , appointed by the Prussian King in the castle of Münster . In the following weeks of the session, the 71 members of parliament discussed the drafts for a district and town order for the province of Westphalia and questions relating to the care of the physically and mentally handicapped. The promotion of the economy and the improvement of the infrastructure (especially the construction of provincial roads ) were the focus of the discussions.

Schulze Pellengahr lively and energetically attended the deliberations until his untimely death on March 4, 1829. Like his parents and daughter, he died as a result of a typhus epidemic . Until his only son, Caspar Hubert Gustav Schulze Pellengahr, came of age, his wife managed the house and farm in Davert. Politically, too, he succeeded his father and in later years represented his home constituency as a center politician in the Prussian House of Representatives in Berlin .

Schulze Pellengahr is one of the early parliamentarians in Westphalia. In a sense, it was at the "cradle" of parliamentary work in Prussia, even though the Westphalian Landtag did not yet have the democratic legitimation of today's Landtag. Nevertheless, he can certainly be counted among the pioneers of today's parliamentarianism.

literature

• Josef Haeming: The members of the Westphalia parliament. 1826-1988. Introduced and edited by Alfred Bruns. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe - administrative archive , Münster 1978 ( Westphalian sources and archive directories 2, ZDB -ID 560645-7 ).
• Joseph Freusberg, Christian Schulze Pellengahr: From the history of the former prince-bishop's Schultenhof Steinhorst near Ascheberg. In: History sheets of the Coesfeld district. 30, 2005, ISSN  0723-2098 , pp. 17-74, here pp. 53, 55.