Gerhard Groskopff

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Gerhard Christian Groskopff (born October 10, 1803 in Oldenburg ; † October 13, 1876 ​​there ) was a German lawyer and parliamentarian.

Life

Gerhard Christian Groskopff was the son of the businessman Johann Jakob Groskopff (1771–1823) and his wife Anna Sophie geb. Hullmann (* 1774). He attended the old grammar school in Oldenburg and the Lyceum in Bremen . From 1817 he completed his education at the trading school in Bremen and then completed a commercial apprenticeship in his father's shop. In 1822 he was able to realize his wish for an academic education and initially studied medicine, from 1823 law at the universities of Göttingen , Heidelberg and Leipzig . In 1824 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . After graduation and the doctorate to Dr. jur. In 1826 he first became a lawyer in Bremen, but soon moved to Oldenburg.

In 1829 he was admitted there as a lower court attorney and in 1831 as a higher court attorney. In 1832 he was provisionally appointed Advocatus fisci et camerae , in 1835 definitively . In this position of trust, he prepared expert reports at the request of the Oldenburg government and represented them in court. His private practice also developed successfully, so from 1837 to 1854 he was the legal representative of Count Carl Anton Ferdinand von Bentinck from the younger Westphalian branch of the Bentinck family in the Bentinck succession dispute .

In addition, Groskopff also advised several larger commercial companies, such as the Oldenburger Glashütte , the Eisenhütte Augustfehn and the Oldenburger Versicherungsgesellschaft . He played a leading role in the emerging professional organizations of lawyers, so he was elected chairman of the short-lived advocacy association in 1839 and chairman of the bar association from 1858 to 1863.

Together with Ernst Ruhstrat and R. von Steun , he was editor of the archive for the practice of the entire law applicable in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , which was published in ten volumes between 1844 and 1869.

Political commitment

The professionally successful and socially respected Groskopff was also active in local and state politics in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . Politically, his views lay in a moderate liberalism with a strictly monarchical outlook.

He was a member and temporarily chairman of the Oldenburg city council. In March 1848 he was elected a deputy member of the Assembly of 34 , the Oldenburg Preliminary Parliament. A short time later, Grand Duke August I appointed him to the constitutional commission, which was supposed to draw up a draft of a constitutional constitution for Oldenburg based on the Hessian constitution .

From 1851 Groskopff belonged to the Oldenburg state parliament and was elected to the parliamentary committee, which prepared the conservative revision of the constitutional law of 1852. However, due to overwork, he gave up his mandate at the end of 1851. In 1856 he resigned his legal practice at the Oldenburg City and Regional Court, and in 1868 also at the Higher Court and limited himself to his work as an advocatus fisci and as a freelance research assistant for the State Ministry. For the ministry he was sent to the commission for the draft of a general German commercial code .

In 1869 Groskopff was awarded the title of Senior Justice Council. However, he was denied the desire to become a judge. He retired in 1872 and died four years later.

Groskopff had been a Freemason since 1846 and for a time master of the chair of his lodge Zum golden Hirsch in Oldenburg.

family

On June 23, 1831 Groskopff married Maria Juliane geb. Sartorius (1808–1861), the daughter of the merchant Johann Jacob Sartorius (1788–1860) and Johanne Adelheit geb. Sartorius (approx. 1779–1856).

Their son Gustav (1832–1897) became chief magistrate in Birkenfeld , their daughter Marie (1836–1919) married August Barnstedt (1823–1914), who later became President of Birkenfeld, in 1859 .

Fonts

  • The reasons for the decision of the Juristenfacultät zu Jena on their findings in the Reichsgräflich Bentinck 's successions controversy in excerpts with comments , 1843
  • On the doctrine of retention rights , Oldenburg 1858

literature

  • Hans Friedl: Groskopff, Gerhard Christian In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 257 f. ( online ).
  • Werner envelope: Gerhard Christian Groskopff (1803-1876). An Oldenburg lawyer from Vormat. Oldenburg Family Studies Volume 3, 1976
  • Albrecht Eckhardt: From the bourgeois revolution to the National Socialist takeover of power - The Oldenburg State Parliament and its members 1848–1933 , 1996, p. 95

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 112 , 228
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Ludwig Theodor Merzdorf: History of the Masonic lodges in the Herzogthume Oldenburg , Berndt, 1852, p. 98 No. 258
personal data
SURNAME Groskopff, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groskopff, Gerhard Christian; Großkopf, Gerhard Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and parliamentarian
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1876
Place of death Oldenburg