Georg Anton Mackensen

Georg Anton Mackensen (born June 4, 1755 in Wolfenbüttel , † October 1, 1837 ibid) was a German lawyer and senior appellant.

Life

Georg Anton Mackensen was born in Wolfenbüttel in 1755 as the son of a court and consistorial councilor. He attended high school in Wolfenbüttel and then studied law in Helmstedt from 1774 and in Göttingen from 1777 . From 1784 he worked as a secretary and from 1790 as a lawyer at the Magistrate of Braunschweig . At the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia Mackensen was appointed court judge in 1807 and judge at the Westphalian Court of Appeal in Kassel in 1808 . In the course of the new court system in 1814 an appeal commission was set up as the third and final instance, in which Mackensen acted as one of the two appellate councils. At the end of the French era , the Kassel court was dissolved, so that Mackensen returned to Brunswick. Initially, he was a councilor at the provisional appeal commission, and later a senior appeal councilor at the Wolfenbüttel Higher Appeal Court .

In 1834 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Henry the Lion on the occasion of his 50th anniversary in service . The law faculty of the University of Göttingen awarded him an honorary doctorate in law in the same year .

Mackensen died in Wolfenbüttel in October 1837 at the age of 82.

literature

• Günter Scheel: Mackensen, Georg Anton, Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 397-398 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 15, 1837, Weimar 1839, p. 1172.

Web links

• Portrait of Georg Anton Mackensen (oil painting by H. Lindner, 1836, holdings of the Herzog August Library ) ( online )