Friedrich Leopold von Kircheisen

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Portrait of Friedrich Leopold von Kircheisen, copper engraving in dotted style around 1820

Friedrich Leopold von Kircheisen (born June 28, 1749 in Berlin , † March 18, 1825 in Berlin) was a Prussian lawyer and minister of state.

Life

Friedrich Leopold von Kircheisen - his father Karl David Kircheisen was mayor and police director in Berlin - studied law in Halle and then entered the Prussian judicial service. In 1773 he was appointed to the chamber judge and in 1777 to the senior auditor. In 1787, Kircheisen was appointed director of the instruction panel. From 1795 he was Vice President of the Chamber Court. Kircheisen worked on general land law . However, activity in the field of criminal justice was central. In 1792, he turned down the office of Berlin city president and police chief. In addition, from 1795 he reorganized the judiciary in the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth on behalf of Karl August von Hardenberg . Church iron was ennobled in 1798 . He also received a doctorate from the University of Halle . In 1809 Kircheisen was appointed President of the Chamber Court.

In the Hardenberg state government, Kircheisen was Minister of Justice in Prussia from 1810 to 1825 during the Prussian reforms . As the longest serving minister, Kircheisen chaired the meetings of the highest government body until 1817 during Hardenberg's frequent absence.

In recent years, Kircheisen's positions have not increasingly coincided with Hardenberg's. While Kircheisen, for example, called for the new provinces in the Rhineland and Westphalia to be rapidly aligned, the State Chancellor did not see it that way. With the establishment of its own ministry for law revision in 1817 under Carl Friedrich von Beyme , Kircheisen was relieved of responsibility in this important area of ​​judicial policy. There were similar contradictions with regard to the reorganization of the mortgage system in the new, formerly Saxon areas in 1819. There, too, the reform proposals from Kircheis went wider than those of the rest of the state government. Kircheisen had been a member of the State Council since 1817 , but was not in the judicial department responsible for the judiciary. In 1824, Kircheisen contradicted the majority of the State Ministry on the question of whether the pacifist Mennonites should be deprived of their citizenship if they refused to do military service. For him, the "compulsion to military service" meant a "compulsion to conscience."

Friedrich Leopold von Kircheisen died in Berlin in 1825 at the age of 75. Like his father 55 years earlier, he was buried in the churchyard of the Dorotheenstadt Church . Both tombs were lost when the church and churchyard were leveled in 1965 at the latest.

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  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 40–41.