Georg Christian Sonnenschmidt

Georg Christian Sonnenschmidt (born June 1, 1766 in Wolgast ; † January 6, 1838 in Greifswald ) was a German lawyer in the Swedish and Prussian services.

Life

Georg Christian Sonnenschmidt, son of a businessman, attended school in Wolgast and from 1782 to 1784 the academic high school in Stettin . He then studied at the University of Greifswald and from 1785 to 1789 law and camera science . His teachers included Georg Ludwig Böhmer , Johann Stephan Pütter and Justus Claproth .

After completing his studies, he returned to Wolgast and, having passed the entrance examination at the end of 1789, was employed as an extraordinary trainee lawyer at the royal court in Greifswald on May 15, 1790 . In 1793 he was promoted to assessor . In 1795 the government of Swedish Pomerania appointed him to a commission to investigate the unrest that had broken out in Greifswald and to regulate the city's system. The following year the Swedish government in Stockholm appointed him to a commission to visit the conditions in Swedish Pomerania.

On April 4, 1799, Georg Christian Sonnenschmidt was appointed senior magistrate ( Procurator justitiae ) by royal order . In this office he was in charge of all judicial and administrative authorities in Swedish Pomerania and the city and rule of Wismar, which at that time still belonged to Sweden . In addition, he was involved in commissions to revise the municipal constitutions of Wismar and Stralsund and to draft a new Pomeranian code. In 1804 he was released from his office at his own request because of his poor health and appointed to the Greifswald Higher Appeal Court . A progressive illness prevented him from continuous judicial activity.

In August 1815 he was awarded the North Star Order . After the transition from Swedish Pomerania to Prussia, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in law from the law faculty of the University of Greifswald in 1817 . In 1836 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class.

Georg Christian Sonnenschmidt was married to Katharina Elisabeth Droysen since December 1798. The marriage had three children. The eldest son was the later Prussian High Tribunal Councilor Friedrich Hermann Sonnenschmidt (1801–1881).

literature

• Bernhard Friedrich Voigt : New necrology of the Germans . Vol. 16, Voigt, Weimar 1840, p. 65 ( Google books ).