Franz Tappehorn

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Franz Heinrich Tappehorn (born March 12, 1785 in Höne near Dinklage , † March 14, 1856 in Vechta ) was a German lawyer and, as a politician, a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

life and career

Studies and professional activities

Tappehorn was the son of the small farmer Johann Dirk Robke called Tappehorn (1750-1817) and his wife Anna Catharina geb. Trentkamp. Until 1802 he attended the Antonianum Vechta high school and from 1803 studied philosophy at the University of Münster . From 1806 he moved to the University of Göttingen and studied law . After completing his studies, he worked as a lawyer from 1809 . In 1810 he entered the civil service of the Duchy of Oldenburg .

During the time of the Oldenburg French era , Tappehorn again worked as a lawyer. After the end of the French occupation in 1814, he became an assessor at the Jever regional court and in 1816 moved to the Neuchâtel regional court in the same position . In 1817 he was appointed office assistant professor at the law office in Oldenburg . In the following years he was promoted to the chancellery (1822) and to the higher appeal judge at the higher appeal court in Oldenburg (1824). In 1828 he resigned from civil service. Tappehorn spent the following years as a private scholar and writer in Munich , where he wrote some canonical works. In 1836 he went to Vechta and took over the law firm of his deceased brother, which he continued until his death.

Political commitment

Tappehorn first achieved notoriety with his strong advocacy of peasant liberation in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . Influenced by the July Revolution of 1830 , Oldenburg was hit by the wave of reforms from 1836. Tappehorn supported the farmers' demands for a fair redemption law based on the model of the regulations in the Kingdom of Hanover by drafting petitions and legal historical explanations on the obligation to produce property. When, after the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 in the Grand Duchy, the Assembly of 34 met to discuss an Oldenburg draft constitution, Tappehorn was among its members and, together with the farmer Christoph Ferneding, contributed to the repeal and replacement of the existing manorial rights in the constitutional law of Oldenburg dated October 12, 1848.

However, on May 3, 1848, Tappehorn had already resigned his mandate in the Assembly of 34 in Oldenburg, since he had been elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly.

In Frankfurt , Tappehorn joined the conservatively oriented “ Pariser Hof ” faction . He represented a Greater German position combined with the creation of a strong central power, but rejected the Prussian leadership. Furthermore, he voted, together with the other Oldenburg MPs, for the construction of a German war port on the Inner Jade .

After the vote victory of the Left in Parliament Paul Church he put, as well as most other MEPs, on 30 May 1849 his mandate and returned to Vechta.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Tappehorn, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tappehorn, Franz Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Listen to Dinklage
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1856
Place of death Vechta