Gerhard Josef Compes
Gerhard Josef Compes (also: Gerhard Joseph Compes; born February 20, 1810 in Korschenbroich ; † January 12, 1887 in Cologne ; actually Heinrich Joseph Gerard Compes ) was a lawyer and politician.
Life
Compes was born the son of the court clerk Heinrich Compes and his wife Katharina (née Rosen). He himself married Maria Katharina Drissen, a daughter of the manufacturer Peter Drissen, in Rheydt in 1843.
Compes studied law in Bonn and Munich . In 1835 he became a lawyer in Cologne. In the same year he was arrested for leading membership in a fraternity (he became a member of the fraternities Germania Bonn , Marcomannia Munich and co-founder of Germania Munich in 1829 ) and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Compes served his imprisonment in Wesel until 1837 and was released because of a reduced sentence. Between 1838 and 1880 he worked as a lawyer in Cologne. At the same time he was legal advisor and member of the board of the Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft between 1861 and 1880 . From 1847 he was chairman of the supervisory board of Neusser Hütte .
In Cologne he was a city councilor several times, first from 1847, last in 1859. In 1844 he was a co-founder of the Central Association for the Welfare of the Working Class in Cologne. Since April 1848 Compes acted as chairman of the Liberal Central Election Committee for the Cologne administrative region . He took part in the pre-parliament in Frankfurt am Main and was elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly for the Siegburg constituency. There he was a member of the Württemberger Hof parliamentary group . He was then a participant in the Gotha post-parliament in 1849 and a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament in 1850 .
Compes left an autobiography in the form of a diary , in which he describes his private background and professional career. A copy of this is kept in the Mönchengladbach city archive.
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 173.
- Jochen Lengemann: The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups . Munich, 2000. ISBN 3-437-31128-X , p. 110
Individual evidence
- ↑ Compare, for example, the information from the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Compes, Gerhard Josef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Compes, Gerhard; Compes, Gerhard Joseph; Compes, Heinrich Joseph Gerard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Korschenbroich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1887 |
| Place of death | Cologne |