Gustav of Duvernoy

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Gustav Heinrich von Duvernoy (born July 9, 1802 in Stuttgart ; † December 24, 1890 there ) was a Württemberg lawyer, private scholar and liberal politician.

Life

After attending grammar school in Stuttgart, Gustav Duvernoy studied law at the universities of Tübingen and Jena from 1820 to 1824 . In Tübingen he joined the Germania fraternity , in Jena presumably the Jena fraternity. At the University of Tübingen, he submitted a dissertation entitled On the royal dignity of the Germanic tribes , with which he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. He worked as an assistant at the university until 1829 before he moved back to Stuttgart after the death of his brother Louis Duvernoy. Until the end of his life he lived as a private scholar in a modest attic apartment in the Materialwaren Duvernoy office building on Friedrichstrasse.

Political activity

Inspired by the liberal opposition leaders Ludwig Uhland , Paul Pfizer and Friedrich Römer , he successfully ran for the Württemberg state elections in the Oberamt Öhringen . The Landtag, which opened in January 1833 , was dissolved again in March because of the Pfizers motion against the Carlsbad resolutions and went down in history as a futile Landtag. Duvernoy moved again in May 1833 as one of the few opposition politicians in the Chamber of Deputies and stayed there for several electoral terms until March 1848. He advocated the enforcement of the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press, mild provisions in the new code of criminal procedure and the development of the Württemberg railway system a. He became known to the public in 1845 through his plea for Schleswig-Holstein to be independent from Denmark. From 1835 Duvernoy belonged to the Stuttgart city council with a few interruptions and worked as an orphan judge. When King Wilhelm was forced to accept liberal ministers into the government in the course of the March Revolution in 1848, Duvernoy was also chosen, who from March 9, 1848 to October 19, 1849, was member of the Roman Ministry as State Councilor and head of the Württemberg Department of the Interior belonged to. This position corresponded to that of an interior minister. While he was in government he passed the Law on People's Assemblies, the Law on the Armament of the People and the First Law on the Repayment of Road Tariffs. In April 1849 there were disputes between the liberal ministers and King Wilhelm over the question of recognizing the imperial constitution passed by the National Assembly in Frankfurt . Württemberg approved the constitution on April 28, 1849. On July 1, 1849, an electoral law with voting rights for every adult taxpayer was passed. The law was originally intended to apply only to state assemblies that were revising the constitution, but could also be retained afterwards. From 1851 to 1868 Duvernoy was again a member of the Chamber of Deputies, this time for the voters in the Oberamt Schorndorf . From 1857 to 1861 and 1864 to 1868 Duvernoy was Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies. From 1866 he was a supporter of the small German solution .

Engagement in the Protestant regional church

From 1851 Duvernoy was a member of the Stuttgart parish council of the Evangelical Church and from 1869 to 1886 the regional synod, of which he was the first president. After the end of his membership in the state parliament, the convinced Protestant was able to devote himself to this new task with great conscientiousness.

family

The Duvernoy family came from Mömpelgard County . Gustav Duvernoy's father David von Duvernoy (* 1757; † 1819) was a Württemberg officer and regimental quartermaster who was promoted to war council in 1807 and in 1817 to senior war council. Duvernoy's mother, Rosine, née Hartenmeyer (* 1759, † 1810) gave birth to seven children. Gustav Duvernoy himself remained single all his life and had no children.

Works

  • Laws regarding the Beeden (tax-like taxes) and similar older taxes, the replacement of the merrymakers and the compensation of the legitimate landlords for the abolition of serfdom in the Kingdom of Württemberg of October 27, 28 and 29, 1836 , hand edition with explanations and detailed information Subject register, Stuttgart 1836

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personal data
SURNAME Duvernoy, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duvernoy, Gustav Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1890
Place of death Stuttgart