Gustav Friedrich Held

Gustav Friedrich Held (born May 29, 1804 in Meuselwitz ; † April 24, 1857 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer and chairman of the Saxon Ministry as a whole in 1849.

Life

Held studied law in Leipzig and became a lawyer there in 1828. Since 1832 assessor of the Schöffenstuhl in Leipzig, in 1835 he was Appellationsrat in Dresden. In the March Revolution he was active in a moderate, liberal sense. After Karl Braun had failed and resigned in the radical democratic state parliament , he was appointed as a candidate for embarrassment on February 24th as chairman of the entire ministry and state minister for justice as well as state minister for culture and public education. His government broke up in the last days of April over the issue of recognition of the constitution drawn up by the Frankfurt National Assembly. Held resigned with his ministerial colleagues when King Friedrich August II refused to comply with the demands of the state parliament and to announce the imperial constitution for Saxony. He was a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament in 1849/50 as a member of the 74th electoral district. Before that, he had been deputy member of the 19th constituency in 1839/40.

After the Dresden May Uprising , Held was employed as a secret councilor in the Ministry of Justice and was in charge of processing civil legislation. In 1852 he prepared a “draft of a civil code for the Kingdom of Saxony”, which could only be presented to the state parliament after his death and which was passed in 1866.

With Bernhard von Watzdorf he founded the “Yearbooks for Saxon Criminal Law” in 1839, which he continued from 1841 with Gustav Albert Siebdrat and Friedrich von Schwarze under the title “New Yearbooks for Saxon Criminal Law”. Together with Siebdrat, Held also published the “Criminal Code for the Kingdom of Saxony” along with a commentary (Leipz. 1848).

Held was accepted into the Apollo Masonic Lodge in Leipzig in 1827 .

literature

Heinrich Theodor Flathe : Held, Gustav Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 680.

Web links

Overview of the courses held by Gustav Friedrich Held at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1826 to winter semester 1832)
Works by and about Gustav Friedrich Held in the German Digital Library
Literature by and about Gustav Friedrich Held in the Saxon Bibliography

Individual evidence

^ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of the Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 104

personal data
SURNAME	Hero, Gustav Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer; Saxon head of government (1849)
DATE OF BIRTH	May 29, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meuselwitz
DATE OF DEATH	April 24, 1857
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Josef Matzerath : Aspects of the Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 104