Gustav Wilhelm Kisker

Gustav Wilhelm Kisker (born December 2, 1803 in Halle ; † June 5, 1854 ) was a Prussian lawyer and politician.

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Kisker was the son of Anton Daniel Kisker and his wife Florentine Louise (née Wallbaums) . After finishing school, he studied law . He then worked as an assessor in Breslau in 1831 . Then a year later with the revision board. From 1833 he was director of the city court in Bochum and later in Iserlohn . From 1835 to 1847 he worked in the Prussian Ministry of Justice with the title of a Secret Judicial Council, later a Secret Higher Justice Council. In addition, he was a member of the Immendiat Justice Examination Commission in 1846/47. In March 1848, Kisker was appointed President of the Court of Appeal in Naumburg . From September 25 to November 11 he was Prussian Minister of Justice in the Pfuel government . Then Kisker was again President of the Court of Appeal in Naumburg. From 1849 to 1852 he was a member of the First Chamber of the Prussian Landtag and from 1852 until his death a member of the House of Representatives .

Kisker found his final resting place in Międzyzdroje . The tomb with the figure of a Justitia was created by his foster son Friedrich Wilhelm Dankberg .

literature

• Michael Hettinger (ed.): Eyewitness reports of the German revolution 1848/49: A Prussian judge as a champion of democracy . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-12756-0 , pp. 336f.

Web links

• Acta Borussica Vol. 4 / II.