Friedrich Hahn (Lawyer)

Friedrich Jacob Hahn (born November 15, 1784 in Wanfried , † September 20, 1858 in Kassel ) was a lawyer from the Electorate of Hesse .

His father Philipp Friedrich Hahn was a Hesse-Rotenburg bailiff , his mother was Friederike Müller from Osterode. Hahn was married to Sophie Juliane Ritter.

Life

Friedrich Hahn was a senior court attorney in Kassel . In 1824 he worked as a lawyer in the threatening letter processes surrounding Elector Wilhelm II . In 1830 he wrote the mass petition, which was handed over to the elector on September 15, 1830 by a delegation of Kassel residents under the direction of Mayor Karl Schomburg . It contained the requirement to convene the estates to deliberate on a constitutional constitution . In October Hahn was probably involved in a draft constitution by the Kassel higher court attorneys.

Hahn founded a newspaper in Kassel in 1831 under the title “Hessische Blätter für Stadt und Land”, which was renamed “ Der Verfassungsfreund ” in March 1831 and appeared three times a week. 1834/35 he sat as a Liberal MP for the city Hofgeismar in the Hessian state parliament .

Fonts

• F. [riedrich] Hahn: Defense of the secret cabinet archivist Müller with some indications of the initiation of the state reform in Kurhessen , Cassel 1831.

literature

• Ewald Grothe : Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the first era Hassenpflug 1830–1837 , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 (= writings on constitutional history , 48).
• Ewald Grothe, Hellmut Seier (arrangement): Files and letters from the beginnings of the Hessian constitutional period 1830–1837 , ed. by Hellmut Seier, Elwert, Marburg 1992 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 48.4; Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse , 8).
• Winfried Speitkamp : Restoration as Transformation. Investigations on the history of the Kurhessian constitution 1813-1830 , Darmstadt, Marburg 1986 (= sources and research on Hessian history , 67).