Friedrich von Gmelin

Ludwig Friedrich Gottlieb Gmelin , since 1833 von Gmelin (born November 27, 1784 in Tübingen , † October 18, 1847 in Stuttgart ) was a German legal scholar and member of the state parliament in the Kingdom of Württemberg .

Life

Friedrich Gmelin was born on November 27, 1784 in Tübingen as the second son of the Tübingen professor of law Christian Gottlieb Gmelin (1749-1818). Among his ten siblings, his older brother Christian Heinrich Gmelin (1780–1824) was a professor of law in Bern and Tübingen and his younger brother Ludwig Otto Gmelin (1786–1855) a Württemberg administrative officer and politician. After attending the Latin school in Tübingen, Gmelin studied law at the universities in Tübingen and Landshut from 1798 to 1804 . In 1804 Gmelin received his doctorate in law. In 1810 he became procurator of the upper tribunal . In 1832 he was elected to the High Tribunal Council. In 1841 he was appointed an extraordinary member of the Privy Council , a year later he became both a full member of this council and a council of state .

politics

In 1815, Friedrich Gmelin was elected to the Württemberg state parliament in Stuttgart as a member of the Freudenstadt district. Gmelin was the only member of the city assembly from 1815 until his death in 1847 without interruption. Until 1825 for Freudenstadt, from 1825 to 1831 for Geislingen and since then for Nürtingen . He stayed in Stuttgart until his death on October 18, 1847. Gmelin called for a new constitution and was against the draft constitution of 1817. In 1819, supporters of a new constitution gathered again, among them Gmelin as the estate commissioner , who, along with other royal commissioners, discussed the new constitution on September 23, 1819. In the following diets , Gmelin developed into a leader of the majority . Often he was appointed to the finance commission, and with his help, the pledge law was created in the years 1825 to 1828, then the redemption laws in 1836, the penal laws from 1839 to 1843 and the notarial laws from 1842 to 1843.

Honors

• 1833 Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , with which the personal Württemberg nobility was connected
• 1844 Commentary Cross 2nd Class of the Order of the Württemberg Crown
• 1846 Commentary Cross 2nd Class of the Order of Frederick

literature

• Moriz Gmelin :  Gmelin, Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 267 f.
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 270 f .