Friedrich Mackeldey

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August Theodor Heinrich Friedrich Mackeldey (born January 9, 1793 in Braunschweig , † April 20, 1865 in Fulda ) was a minister in the Electorate of Hesse .

Life

Mackeldey's father was the Brunswick stable master Johann Wolfgang Mackeldey, his mother Dorothea Maria Elisabeth Hundiker, the sister of Johann Peter Hundiker . His older brother Ferdinand Mackeldey was a law professor at the University of Marburg . Friedrich Mackeldey had been married to the daughter of the Marburg pharmacist Hess since 1822.

Mackeldey studied law in Helmstedt and Marburg. In 1812 he became a member of the Corps Hassia Marburg. In 1814 he took part as a volunteer in the French campaign as part of the Wars of Liberation . He had been a senior judge in Hanau since 1821 and was appointed judge at the Kassel Higher Appeal Court in May 1831 . In October 1837 the prince elector and co-regent Friedrich Wilhelm appointed him as successor to Ludwig Hassenpflug to the (provisional) head of the Ministry of Justice, which he remained until 1846. He then served as director of the Hanau Higher Court until 1851, finally in the same position until 1853 in Fulda .

literature

  • Harald Höffner: Kurhessens Ministerialvorstand the constitutional period 1831–1866 , phil. Diss., Giessen 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener corps lists 1910, 160 , 39.