Franz Joseph Musset

Franz Joseph Musset (born April 14, 1786 in Siegen , † February 11, 1859 in Wiesbaden ) was a Nassau judge and president of the Wiesbaden Court of Appeal .

Franz Joseph Musset studied medicine and later law at the universities of Gießen and Marburg . From 1808 he was a lawyer in Siegen. In 1812 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD and became a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg . In 1813/14 he was a professor at the law school in Wetzlar in the service of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . On May 7, 1814, he was appointed to the council at the Higher Court in Dillenburg and on September 11, 1815 to the government council in Wiesbaden. In 1819 he was a member of the Central Investigation Commission and involved in the persecution of demagogues .

On December 30, 1820 he was promoted to the secret government council and in January 1822 appointed director of the court and appeal court of Wiesbaden . He was the main author of the Nassau procedural rules of 1822. In May 1822 he became Vice President of the Higher Appeal Court in Wiesbaden and on February 2, 1832 a member of the State Council . On January 20, 1836, he became President of the Wiesbaden Higher Appeal Court with a salary of 4,000 guilders to which 2,000 guilders were paid for.

With his second wife Salvadore von Bourcourd he had 7 children (born in the years 1839-1851).

literature

• Wolf-Heino Struck: From the struggle for the constitutional dispute - the political process against the Nassau People's Chamber President Georg Herber 1831/33; in: Nassauische Annalen , Vol. 79, 1968, p. 203
• Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , p. 539, entry No. 2991