Hans Nikolai Frenssen

Hans Nikolai Frenssen (born May 28, 1798 in Flensburg ; † August 11, 1833 in Tinnum ) was a German lawyer and bailiff of Sylt .

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Hans Nikolai Frenssen was a son of Hans Nikolaus Frenssen (* 1767 in Barlt ; † 1824 in Flensburg) and his wife Anna Maria, née Thueseng (* 1775 in Flensburg; † 1814 there). The father was in charge of the Flensburg Gotthard and Anna Hansen Hospital . He had a brother named Christian (1808–1867) who was a pastor. A brother of his father named Johann Friedrich (1772-1833) was the great-grandfather of the writer Gustav Frenssen .

Frenssen attended the Flensburg Latin School and studied law at Kiel University and Heidelberg University from 1816 to 1821. In 1821 he passed the legal exam in Gottorf. He then worked as a lower court attorney in Flensburg and from 1823 to 1831 as a secretary at the Gottorf Higher Court . On December 10, 1831 he was appointed bailiff on Sylt, where he succeeded Uwe Jens Lornsen . He held this office from February 1832 until the end of his life.

During Frenssen's short creative period, the people of Sylt wanted a new municipal constitution. He participated as a consultant in the preparatory work for a corresponding reform of the landscape constitution. He tried to mediate in conflicts. He did not anticipate the decisions of the Sylt state representatives and took into account their sense of justice and freedom. Jens Bleicken, who headed the board of state plenipotentiaries, said that Frenssen had shown himself to be "noble and of a subtle way of thinking" in the negotiations. Frenssen should take over the final completion of the draft constitution.

Frenssen could not finish his work. He died in August 1833, supposedly after a brief illness. On Sylt, there are still speculations that he took his own life. Gustav Frenssen processed the résumé of the bailiff in 1943 in the poem "The bailiff of Sylt".

literature

Manfred Wedemeyer: Frenssen, Hans Nikolai . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 4. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1976, p. 74.