Gerhard Caesar

Gerhard Caesar (born September 29, 1792 in Bremen , † November 14, 1874 in Bremen) was a German lawyer and archivist, Senator of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and President of the Bremen Judges College.

Life

Caesar was the son of the wine merchant and senator Siegmundt Tobias Caesar (1763-1838) in Bremen. From 1812 he studied law at the University of Göttingen , where he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . From 1813 he took part in the Wars of Liberation as a lieutenant in the Bremen contingent of the Hanseatic Legion . After the war he continued his studies in Göttingen and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . Then his Grand Tour took him over two years to Italy and through Switzerland, France and the Netherlands. In 1818 he settled in Bremen as a lawyer. In 1825 he was appointed archivist . As head of the Bremen State Archives , he succeeded in rediscovering the archive of the Archdiocese of Bremen in Stade , which was believed to be lost . In December 1832 he was elected to the city's senate and, as a senator, was also a member of the higher court . When he was able to join the newly formed college of judges when the separation of powers was introduced by the revolution in 1848 when the new Bremen constitution came into force in 1849, he left the Senate and became a professional judge. From October 1850 until his retirement in October 1864, Caesar was president of the college of judges, which can be seen as the forerunner of today's Bremen Regional Court .

Caesar's house

The house at Domshof No. 21, later named after Gerhard Caesar, was built by the elder man and wine merchant Conrad Wilhelmi (1730–1803), who acquired the property in 1768. The three-storey house in plait style had a beautiful staircase and stuccoed living rooms. Caesar acquired the house in 1836 from a merchant and banker who had owned the house since 1805. In 1900, after changing owners several times, the building went to the state of Bremen, and the living spaces that had been preserved until then were changed. In 1944/45 the house, which has been on the list of monuments since 1917, was damaged by bombs and demolished in 1956 after several years of controversy . The rear gable was transferred to the reconstruction of the vinegar house , parts of the landscape wallpaper and molds of the Rococo stucco were given to the Focke Museum .

Country house Caesar-Ichon

In Oberneuland , Caesar owned today's Ichons Park, the manor house he had rebuilt in 1843 by the carpenter and architect Anton Theodor Eggers. The building at Oberneulander Landstrasse 70 is now part of a senior citizens' residential complex.

literature

• Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera to Göttingen . Volume 1: From 1809-1899 . Göttingen Hanoverian Association, Göttingen 2002, p. 57, no. 128.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume 1: A-K. 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X , pp. 165, 421.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Caesar in the catalog of the German National Library