Friedrich Simon Leopold Petri

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Friedrich Simon Leopold Petri

Friedrich Simon Leopold Petri (born October 2, 1775 in Lemgo ; † March 10, 1850 in Detmold ) was a German civil servant and judge in the Principality of Lippe .

Life

Friedrich Simon Leopold Petri studied law at the University of Göttingen and was then initially in-house counsel. In 1805 he became a judge in Lemgo. In 1810 he was appointed to Detmold as a government assessor. In 1814 he was appointed a councilor. In 1845 he became a secret councilor .

As part of the March Revolution he was appointed to the head of the government of the principality on March 11, 1848. He remained head of government in Detmold until his death.

His younger brother Dietrich Moritz Petri was the mayor of Lemgo . His son Moritz Leopold Petri (1802–1873) was the Lippe envoy to the provisional central authority , a member of the Erfurt Union Parliament and, after his father's death, a member of the Lippe government.

estate

Part of the Petri family's written estate is in the Lippische Landesbibliothek , including correspondence between Friedrich Simon Leopold Petri and Princess Pauline .

literature

  • Ernst-Hermann Grefe: The Mediatization Question and the Principality of Lippe in the years 1848–1849, Diss., 1965, pp. 6-7.
  • Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer, 2001, ISBN 978-3-11-095684-9 , p. 254, online .

Individual evidence

  1. https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:51:1-22584 Digitized of a correspondence between Princess Pauline and Friedrich Simon Leopold Petri on the website of the Lippische Landesbibliothek