Gustav Langerfeldt

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Gustav Anton Friedrich Langerfeldt (born September 5, 1802 in Braunschweig ; † March 28, 1883 there ) was a Braunschweig lawyer and politician and a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Youth and education

As the son of the respected Brunswick merchant Friedrich Langerfeldt and his wife Philippine Louise Wilhelmine, born. Köppe (1778–1857), Gustav Langerfeldt was chosen along with a few other children as playmates for the two orphaned Guelph princes (and later Brunswick dukes) Karl and Wilhelm . In Braunschweig he attended grammar school and the Collegium Carolinum (today the Technical University of Braunschweig ), in Detmold the grammar school. He then studied law in Heidelberg and Göttingen. During his studies he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg and Brunsviga Göttingen .

Professional career

Lithograph "Club de Casino" by Friedrich Pecht , 1849 (without Langerfeldt)

In 1825 he passed the legal examination and became a lawyer and notary in Wolfenbüttel . Since he had fallen out of favor with Duke Karl II , his former playmate, civil service was only open to him after his brother Duke Wilhelm took office . In 1831 he passed the second state examination and became assessor in 1832 . In 1837 he was appointed to the council at the regional court in Wolfenbüttel. He later became a higher regional judge , commander of the civil guard and one of the four Brunswick MPs in the Frankfurt National Assembly, where he belonged to the casino parliamentary group. Here he was also a member of the constitutional committee and campaigned for the hereditary empire with the monarch's absolute right of veto .

As early as 1848 he was offered entry into the state ministry, but refused because he did not want to work with the conservative Friedrich Schulz . After Schulz left the ministry at the end of 1849, he took over the internal affairs and culture departments as a privy councilor (Minister).

In 1850 Langerfeldt was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

retirement

For health reasons, he entered 1861 in the retired and devoted himself to art history . He spent some time in Rome and then became chairman of the Braunschweigischer Kunstverein .

Works

  • Emperor Otto the Fourth, the Welf. A picture of life. Hanover 1872.

literature

  • Paul Zimmermann :  Langerfeldt, Gustav Anton Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 680 f.
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 369f.
  • Egbert Weiß: Corps students in the Paulskirche , in: Einst und Jetzt , special issue 1990, Munich 1990, p. 21.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jochen Lengemann: The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850 , 2000, pp. 196–197.
personal data
SURNAME Langerfeldt, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langerfeldt, Gustav Anton Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Braunschweig lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1883
Place of death Braunschweig