Gottlieb Wilhelm Freudentheil

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Wilhelm Freudentheil

Gottlieb Wilhelm Freudentheil (born September 24, 1792 in Stade , † April 2, 1869 in Stade) was a German lawyer and member of parliament in the Kingdom of Hanover .

Life

Gottlieb Wilhelm Freudentheil was born in Stade as the youngest of ten children of the merchant and lottery entrepreneur Gottlieb Christoph Freudentheil (1741–1813, originally Hartig Igel Hertz), who was the first Jew to come to Stade and who took the name Freudentheil in 1769 when he converted to Christianity . The mother was Anna Elisabeth Kühnemund (1749-1812), daughter of a Stader Freihöker . The pedagogue, pastor and poet Wilhelm Nikolaus Freudentheil was his oldest brother. After attending the Stader Gymnasium Athenaeum , Wilhelm studied law and philosophy at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1811 to 1814 . In 1812 he was one of the founding members of the Corps Bremensia Göttingen . After receiving his doctorate in 1814, he settled in Stade as a lawyer and was elected citizen spokesman in 1819 . After 1825 Freudentheil no longer worked as a citizen spokesman, but kept the council's minutes. In 1816 he married his first wife, who died in childbed in 1823. In the following year he married Christiane Holtermann (1801–1873), with whom he had six children, including the twin brothers Emil (1828–1910) and Julius (1828–1892). Emil Freudentheil joined and continued his father's office while his father was still alive, Julius became a doctor. His daughter Alwine Tettenborn (1857–1923), Gottlieb Wilhelm's granddaughter, received her doctorate in Bonn in 1911 with a dissertation on international law and became the first female doctor of law in Prussia .

Freudentheil's house in Stade

In 1838 Wilhelm Freudentheil was elected second mayor of Stade, but was not appointed by the cabinet because of his positive attitude towards the constitution . From 1852 he acted as a senior court attorney in Stade. The city of Stade made him its first honorary citizen on November 19, 1864 on the occasion of his 50th doctoral jubilee . Gottlieb Wilhelm Freudentheil died of a heart attack almost three years after Hanover was broken up by Prussia . His tomb in the Stade Horstfriedhof has been preserved. His home was the birthplace of the future Prussian general August Karl von Goeben (1816–1880) in the street Am Wasser West No. 19/21, which Freudentheil acquired in 1822 from Senator Versmann, the owner of the Löwenapotheke , which is now called "Goebenhaus" .

Wilhelm Freudentheil was an active Freemason in the " Zum Großer Christoph" Lodge in Stade; In 1837 he was their deputy master and later also their master of the chair .

Politician

Wilhelm Freudentheil had been one of the liberal leaders in the Kingdom of Hanover since 1830 and became known throughout Germany as a constitutional fighter. He was legal advisor to the citizens of Stade for over 20 years; Later Freudentheil became a member of the Hanoverian Estates Assembly and helped found the constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1833. The so-called Stade Trinity, which consisted of him, his brother-in-law Holtermann and Wyneken, represented the counterpart to the Göttingen Seven . In 1837 it rebelled against the suspension of the liberal constitution of 1833 by refusing to pay taxes.

In August 1841, Freudentheil was part of an oppositional group of travelers to the island of Helgoland , who visited the poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben , who was staying there for the summer, and held an oppositional meeting with him in a sociable political mood. After the delegation's departure for joy, the poet wrote the song of the Germans , the text of the later German national anthem, based on the mood of the meeting .

In 1848 he took part in the pre-parliament and was a member of the Fifties Committee . From May 18, 1848 to May 30, 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly as a member of the 16th Hanover constituency in Stade . He belonged to the moderate left and was a member of the Imperial Deputation that offered the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV the German imperial crown.

Lawyer

Gottlieb Wilhelm Freudentheil campaigned energetically for the legal status and its reputation. He demanded the self-administration of the lawyers through the establishment of bar associations , which were established in Hanover from 1852. Freudentheil himself founded such a chamber in Stade and became its vice director. In two writings (1831 and 1837) he showed the suppression of the lawyer. In one of these pamphlets he presented a historical outline of the legal profession that was to become a kind of world history of the legal profession, on which Freudentheil had been working since 1833. The history of the advocate class in Hanover began shortly after the turn of the century a. a. published by his son and successor Emil Freudentheil.

Publications

  • On the history of the advocacy class in the Kingdom of Hanover up to 1837 , published by Chr. W. Emil Freudentheil, Stade 1903 (p. 164)
  • History of the bar in the former Kingdom of Hanover up to 1831 , A. Pockwitz, Stade 1900 (p. 164)
  • The judicial documents and the Lawyers' Day in Celle , Stade 1858 (p. 166)
  • From the former bot-ding to Stade , in: Neues Vaterländisches Archiv 3 (228–260) u. 4 (44–58), Celle 1823 (p. 350)

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Individual evidence

  1. Proof on the picture page Alwine Tettenborn geb. Freudentheil (1857–1923) in this work.
  2. ^ Gebhard Zernin, August von Goeben in his letters, 2nd ed., 1903. p. 2.
  3. Page references refer to the evidence in: Victor Loewe (Royal Archivist): Bibliography of Hanoverian and Braunschweigische Geschichte. Published by Joseph Jolowicz , Posen 1908 ( digitized version ).

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