Franz Pfeiffer (politician)

Franz Georg Pfeiffer (born January 11, 1784 in Marburg an der Lahn , † April 15, 1856 in Kassel ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Pfeiffer was the son of the Reformed pastor, theology professor and consistorial councilor in Marburg Johann Jakob Pfeiffer and his wife Luise Rebekka Rüppel. Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer was a brother. He married on January 12, 1809 in Kassel Susanne (Susette) Friederike Lagisse (born April 6, 1787 in Kassel; † May 23, 1861 ibid), the daughter of the secretary at the Kommerzienkolleg in Kassel, Jean François Lagisse. The son Friedrich Pfeiffer emerged from the marriage.

Pfeiffer studied law in Marburg and became procurator for the Marburg government in 1804. In the Kingdom of Westphalia he became Procurator fisci in 1806 and Procureuer du Roi in Kassel in 1810. In 1814 he was advocatus fisci in Kassel and in 1817 was appointed court judge and member of the Oberrentkammer. From 1821 to 1831 he was a councilor and police director in Kassel, and from 1831 he was a police officer in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior with the title of Privy Councilor. In 1837 he became consistorial director and from 1841 to 1844 director of the Landeskreditkasse in Kassel. After a year-long illness, he was a deputy of the government deputation in Rinteln from 1846 to 1847 and, in 1847, chief customs director. In 1848 he became director of the senior tax committee in Kassel, member of the chamber committee, the state hospital commission, the poor relief commission, sovereign commissioner of the Kaufungen and Wetter monasteries , director of the agricultural examination commission at the Reformed Orphanage and the fire insurance commission. At the same time he was authorized representative of the Electorate of Hesse in the negotiations on the border disputes between the Electorate of Hesse, Prussia, Saxony-Weimar-Eisenauch and Waldeck.

In 1850 he belonged to the state house of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

Awards

• Knight of the Order of the Westphalian Crown
• Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class
• Grand Cross 2nd Class of the Grand Ducal Saxony-Weimar-Eisenachian House Order of the Vigilance or the White Falcon
• Grand Cross 3rd Class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 236-237.
• August Ludwig Pfeiffer: The Pfeiffer family. A collection of life pictures and family trees, Kassel 1886, pp. 44–57, 105 f.
• Karl-Heinz Nickel, Harald Schmidt, Florian Tennstedt, Heide Wunder: short biographies , in: Kassel as the city of lawyers and the courts in their thousand-year history. Edited by Georg Wannagat. Cologne u. a. : Heymann, 1990. pp. 367-537, pp. 481 f.