Georg Wilhelm Pfeiffer

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Georg Wilhelm Pfeiffer (born December 21, 1795 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 22, 1871 there ) was a lawyer, police assessor and writer. He wrote his novels, local antics and poems mostly in Frankfurt dialect and published them under the pseudonym Georg Wilhelm Pfeiffer von Frank .

Life

Georg Wilhelm Pfeiffer was born as the son of the Frankfurt citizen and master saddler Johann Philipp Pfeiffer. From 1812 to 1815 he attended the city ​​high school . He gave up his original career aspiration to become a painter and studied law in Heidelberg for 3½ years. On April 7, 1819, he received the title and dignity of a doctor of both rights on the basis of his dissertation “De pupillari substitutione” ( on inheritance in the event of the death of an orphan under age ) . On April 29, 1819 he applied to the Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt and on September 10, he took the oath of citizens and lawyers. In 1821 he entered the service of the city police administration and a short time later became a police assessor. Pfeiffer led the police investigation into the students involved in the Frankfurt Wachensturm .

From 1835 to 1838 he was a member of the legislative body of the Free City of Frankfurt . He worked for the city police administration until a few years before his death. Pfeiffer died unmarried.

His last apartment was at Neue Mainzer Straße 58 II.

The building Zu den Drei Römern , Markt 40 , in Frankfurt's old town , built as part of the Dom-Römer project , has inscriptions on the facade that were taken from the novella Der Mann aus dem Römer . The house was designed by the architects Jordi-Keller Architekten .

Works

  • File-based news about the gang of crooks on the Rhine and Main, Frankfurt am Main 1828, online  - Internet Archive
  • The Saint Andrew evening. Iris, Frankfurt am Main 1828
  • The civil battle. Localposse in three elevators. JF Gerhard the Elder Elderly, Frankfurt am Main 1828
  • The flour oradein or virtue wages and Borjerglück. Local posse in Alexandrians and in two sections. Ibid, 1837.
  • Sounds and images from Frankfurt and Sachsenhausen . Frankfurt a. M. 1854 u. 1857, including the poem The Suffering of Apple Wine ( online in the Bavarian State Library)
  • The entry of the Allies to Frankfurt am Main. Vogt u. Fawn 1846
  • The counterfeiter. In: Didaskalia Frankfurt am Main 1847
  • The Commander. In: Didaskalia. Frankfurt am Main 1847
  • The nephew from Paris. Conversations-Blatt, Frankfurt am Main 1850
  • Huth and Pommer. [under GW P (feiffer) by Frank (furt)]. In: Didaskalia. Frankfurt am Main 1850
  • The old Swede in Sachsenhausen. [under GW P (feiffer) by Frank (furt)] In: Didaskalia. Frankfurt am Main 1850
  • The son of the stranger. 2 Bdch. JG Fey, Frankfurt am Main 1851
  • Günther von Schwarzburg . GWP from Frank. In: Didaskalia. Frankfurt am Main 1852
  • The Jewish doctor. In: Frankfurter Anzeiger, Frankfurt am Main 1853
  • Heart and royal right. In: Frankfurter Anzeiger, Frankfurt am Main 1853
  • Cronberg. In: Frankfurter Anzeiger, Frankfurt am Main 1854
  • The Nightingale. In: Didaskalia. Frankfurt am Main 1855
  • Repertory on the history of the imperial city of Frankfurt aM Based on Kirchner's history of the city of Frankfurt aM and, with reference to the number of pages in this work, at the same time containing a complete index for the same. Frankfurt am Main 1856
  • The Dominican. In: Didaskalia. Frankfurt am Main 1857
  • The Turkish envoy. Hermann'sche Buchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1858
  • The Syndic. In: Didaskalia. Frankfurt am Main 1859
  • The old man in the stone house (the alchemist) Karl Theod. Reiffenstein u. GW Pfeiffer. In: Didaskalia. Frankfurt am Main 1859
  • The Wizard. In: Familienblatt. Frankfurt am Main 1859
  • The city governor of Frankfurt. Verlage Meidinger u. Co. 1860
  • The man from the Roman. 1860 ( online on Project Gutenberg )
  • Mozart at the imperial coronation. In: Familienblatt. Frankfurt am Main 1862
  • Augerau in Frankfurt. In: Didaskalia. Frankfurt am Main 1863
  • Napoleon I in Frankfurt (1807). In: Didaskalia. Frankfurt am Main 1865.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ cf. Wilh. Schulz and C. Welcker: Secret Inquisition, Censorship and Cabinet Justice in Perishable Alliance . C (K) arlsruhe 1845
  2. ↑ Heinrich Bingemer: Foreword to the new edition Der Mann aus dem Römer. , Frankfurt am Main 1925
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Georg Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfeiffer von Frank, Georg Wilhelm (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, police assessor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1871
Place of death Frankfurt am Main