Georg Theodor Meyer

Georg Theodor Meyer

Georg Theodor Meyer (born February 5, 1798 in Lüneburg ; † September 12, 1870 there ) was a German lawyer, poet lawyer and politician.

Life

Georg Theodor Meyer was the son of the lawyer and finance secretary in Lüneburg Heinrich Rudolph Meyer (1760-1824) and attended the Johanneum grammar school in Lüneburg until 1815. From October 1815 he studied law at the University of Göttingen , where he worked with Rudolf Christiani of the literary student association Poetic Schusterinnung an der Leine under the name Treuwerth von der Ilmenau , whose members published the literary magazine Wünschelruthe in 1818 . Meyer, who as a non-incorporated student was a focal point for many fellow students from Lüneburg, is in his social role in Göttingen byAugust Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben described in detail in his memoirs.

On September 17, 1818 Meyer received his doctorate in both rights in Göttingen . On October 22, 1818 he enrolled at the University of Heidelberg . Like his father, he became a lawyer and was admitted as a notary in Lüneburg from 1819 to 1853 .

In 1831 he was elected to the second chamber of the Estates Assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover for Lüneburg , where he was immediately elected to the commission that worked on the draft of the Hanoverian constitution of 1833. Meyer was a liberal-conservative and was on the side of the opposition during the Hanoverian constitutional crisis in 1837, which subsequently triggered one or the other harassment from the government. In 1839 he was elected Senator for the City of Lüneburg.

In 1841 Meyer was elected President of the Second Chamber of the Estates Assembly and was spokesman for the opposition during the short period of its existence. In 1846 he became the Syndicus of the city when the Lüneburg constitution was changed . In 1848 he was elected a member of the preliminary parliament and a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for the 13th constituency of Hanover in Lüneburg and, during the short period of his membership in the assembly in May / June 1848, remained non-attached. Because of his appointment as Landdrost of the Landdrostei Hildesheim , he had to resign his mandate after a short time; Substitutes for him was Carl Christoph Merkel .

From autumn 1849 Meyer returned to the state politics of the Kingdom of Hanover and from autumn 1850 held the office of the Kingdom's Minister of Culture for one year, while Lüneburg's Lord Mayor Christian Wilhelm Lindemann led the Ministry of the Interior. As such, he was a member of the Hanover State Council . In 1851 he was a curator at the University of Göttingen. When King George V of Hanover took office, he again came into opposition.

His estate is partly in the Federal Archives and partly in the Lüneburg City Archives.

Awards

• Honorary Citizen of the City of Lüneburg (1832)
• Knight of the Guelph Order (1851)

literature

• Article Meyer, Georg Theodor . In: Joachim Rückert and Jürgen Vortmann (eds.): Lower Saxony lawyers . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, pp. 146–149.
• Ferdinand Frensdorff :  Meyer, Georg Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 575 f.
• Josepha Grauheer, Eduard Arens: The poetic shoemaker guild on the leash (= Göttingische auxiliary hours. Issue 7). Otto Deneke, Göttingen 1929.
• Georg Theodor Meyer . In: Heinrich Best : The members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/1849 (BIORAB-FRANKFURT) (the exact data set must be found).
• Rainer Koch (Ed.): The Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. An encyclopedia of the members of the German Constituent Assembly. Kunz, Kelkheim 1989, ISBN 3-923420-10-2 .
• Hans J. Lindenberg: Between then and now - Georg Theodor Meyer (1798–1870) reports on the great upheaval in the 19th century. Schardt, Oldenburg 2002, ISBN 3-89841-060-9 .
• Hans Joachim Brand: Dr. Georg Theodor Meyer. The all-purpose weapon from Lüneburg - 1798–1870. In: info - information and official communications from the Celle Bar Association , issue 2/2005, p. 15 ff.
• Dr. Georg Theodor Meyer (1798-1870) . In: Christopher Scharnhop: The Lüneburg Notariat in the 19th Century Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2011, pp. 314-315, ISBN 978-3-8305-2660-5 (dissertation, University of Hamburg 2008, digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Georg Theodor Meyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Rudolph Meyer (1760-1824) . In: Christopher Scharnhop: The Lüneburg Notariat in the 19th Century (= dissertation, Hamburg 2008), Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2011, pp. 315-316 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Georg Theodor Meyer on the website of the Johanneum Lüneburg (author: Gerhard Glombik)
3. ↑ Werner H. Preuss: Rudolph Christiani (1798-1858) . Husum 2004, p. 14 ff.
4. ↑ August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben: My life, records and memories, Volume 1, p. 119 ff. ( Digitized version ).
5. ^ Gustav Toepke (Ed.): The register of the University of Heidelberg. Part 5: From 1807-1846. Heidelberg 1904.
6. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee ( Memento of the original dated August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 79 kB).  
7. ^ Michael Wrage: The State Council in the Kingdom of Hanover 1839-1866. Münster 2001, ISBN 3-8258-5401-9 ( digitized version ).
8. ↑ Stadtarchiv Lüneburg, signature: ND Meyer, Georg Theodor (with his memoirs in three volumes as typescript)
9. ↑ List of honorary citizens of the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg