Hans von Bostel

Hans Christian von Bostel , baptized Johannes Emmanuel Christian von Bostel (born September 15, 1779 in Wetzlar , † January 31, 1839 in Bocholt ), was a German lawyer , civil servant , judge and author . From 1806 to 1811 he was a member of the state government of the Principality of Salm .

Life

Von Bostel was one of eleven children of the lawyer Friedrich Jakob Dietrich von Bostel (1744-1810), Procurator of Hamburg at the Imperial Court of Justice and Councilor of Saxony-Meiningen , and his wife Anna Franziska Margaretha, née Dietz (1750-1796). He grew up in Wetzlar and attended high school there . Like his schoolmate Friedrich Carl von Savigny , with whom he had a close lifelong friendship, he then studied law at the universities of Jena and Marburg . In Jena, both of them established friendly relationships with Clemens Brentano .

From 1801 he lived as a private citizen in Wetzlar. As such, in 1804 he prepared a legal opinion for Prince Moritz zu Salm-Kyrburg , who, as the guardian of the underage Prince Friedrich IV zu Salm-Kyrburg, was a co-regent in the Principality of Salm . In 1806 he appointed him as a princely Salm-Kyrburg government and court councilor in the Bocholt government. The state government of the principality, which belonged to the Confederation of the Rhine protected by Napoleon I , was administered from 1809 by Aloys van Langenberg , Andreas Stündeck (approx. 1750-1810) and Bostel as the highest endowed of the three court councilors.

In Bocholt he converted to Catholicism and on September 17, 1809 married Maria Anna (Marianne) Diepenbrock (1788–1847), the daughter of the strictly Catholic court chamber councilor and manufacturer Anton Diepenbrock (1761–1837), who was appointed mayor of the canton of Bocholt in 1811 . The charitable Apollonia Diepenbrock and the later Prince-Bishop of Breslau and Cardinal Melchior von Diepenbrock were his wife's siblings. The couple had 16 children, several of whom became priests and nuns.

When the Principality of Salm had to be annexed to the French Empire , van Langenberg and von Bostel handed the government over to the imperial commissioner Théobald Baron von Bacher on February 28, 1811 , who then reinstated them temporarily as the "KK provisional government". During the same year, von Bostel entered the French judiciary and became Rees' first tribunal and instruction judge .

After France had suffered a decisive defeat in the Battle of Leipzig and the Westmünsterland had fallen under the interim rule of the Central Administrative Department, von Bostel was committed to the liberation from French domination. In accordance with an ordinance published by the Kingdom of Prussia on November 22, 1813 for the establishment of a Landwehr , von Bostel took over its function in the absence of a district administrator and formed one - in particular from members of the Diepenbrock family and the former Salmischen administration as well as their able-bodied sons Committee for the formation of a Landwehr of the Bocholt section, which then succeeded in setting up, equipping and training two Landwehr battalions including one squadron Landwehr rider from its own resources.

After the French period , von Bostel moved to the judiciary of the Kingdom of Prussia and in 1815 became a judge of the Bocholt regional and municipal court . He was its director from 1831 to 1838.

In 1817 he received a visit from Brentano and introduced him to the Diepenbrock family. During this time Brentano took note of Anna Katharina Emmerick's visions . As a romantic poet, he worked on them from 1818/1819.

Fonts (selection)

• Expert opinion regarding the appanage required by Prince Moritz von Salm-Kyrburg because of the introduction of primogeniture and a settlement that was made on July 7th, 1803 (Wetzlar 1804). In: Joseph Anton Vahlkampf (Ed.): Reichskammergerichtliche Miscellen . Volume 1, Issue 3, pp. 171-202 ( Google Books ).
• Illuminating examination of the essay by A. Runge "Something about the Elsflether Weserzoll". Wetzlar 1805.

literature

• von Bostell also Bostel (Hans) . In: Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or lexicon of the now living German writers . Verlag der Meyerschen Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1808, 5th edition, Volume 13, p. 153 ( Google Books ).
• Bostel, Hans von . In: Ernst Raßmann: News of the life and writings of Münsterland writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . Coppenrath'sche Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Münster 1866, p. 37 ( Google Books ).
• Bostel, Hans von . In: Otto Renkhoff : Nassauische Biographie. Short biographies from 13 centuries . Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 978-3-92224-490-5 , Volume 39, p. 73.
• Udo Wörffel: Johann von Bostel (1779–1839) - A Bocholt lawyer in the time of historical change at the beginning of the 19th century . In: Our Bocholt . 56th year (2005), No. 2, pp. 18-29.

Web links

• Bostel, Hans Christian von (1779–1839) , data sheet in the portal kalliope.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bocholt sources and contributions . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1976, Volume 1, p. 251
2. ^ Wilhelm Kohl , Helmut Richtering (processing): The State Archive of Münster and its holdings: Authorities of the transition period, 1802–1816 . North Rhine-Westphalian State Archives Münster, Münster 1964, p. 116
3. ↑ Friedrich Reigers : The city of Bocholt during the nineteenth century . Verlag von J. & A. Temming, Bocholt 1907, p. 76 ff. ( Digitized version )
4. ^ Karl Oppenheim: Directory of judges and public prosecutors in the courts of the Münsterland since 1815 . In: Westfälische Zeitschrift , 109, 1959, p. 118 ( PDF )
5. ^ Konrad Feilchenfeldt : The student status of the romantic author. Academic citizenship versus sovereign artistry: for example Clemens Brentano . In: Antje Arnold, Walter Pape (ed.): Romanticism and law. Law and language, legal cases and justice . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-060983 -7, p. 101