Heinrich Albert Zachariä

Heinrich Albert Zachariä, 1867. Graphic by Hermann Scherenberg.

Heinrich Albert Zachariä (born November 20, 1806 in Herbsleben , † April 29, 1875 in Cannstatt near Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Zacharias studied from 1825 to 1829 at the University of Goettingen law . After receiving his doctorate , he worked as a private lecturer , and from 1835 as a professor at Göttingen University.

Zachariä gained fame as the author of numerous expert reports, magazine articles and legal works. He was co-editor of the Archives for Criminal Law and the Critical Journal for Foreign Legislation and Jurisprudence .

In the course of the March Revolution in 1848 , Zachariä took part in the pre-parliament and became a delegate in the Committee of Seventeen , which was supposed to prepare work on the Imperial Constitution, and in the Committee of Fifties . From May 18, 1848 to May 26, 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for Göttingen . There he was a member of the Nürnberger Hof parliamentary group and was a member of several committees, including the Committee on International Law and the Imperial Deputation . After the end of the National Assembly, he took part in the Gotha post-parliament in June 1849 .

In 1854 Georg V refused to confirm the election of Zachariäs as prorector of the University of Göttingen, ten years later he was able to take up this post.

In 1867 Zachariä became a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation , and from 1868 until his death he was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

He was married to Amalie Zachariae; his son Viktor Zachariae (1837–1900) was a doctor and Lord Mayor of Wildemann .

Honors

Göttingen-Weende, Heinrich-Zachariä-Bogen

The city of Göttingen honored him with the dedication of the Heinrich-Albert-Zachariä-Bogen.

Works (online)

• German constitutional and federal law. First department. General Doctrines and State Constitutional Law . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1841. - Scan on Google
• The illegality of the attempted reactivation of the German Federal Assembly that was repealed in 1848. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1850. - Scan of the Frankfurt University Library
• Floor plan of the Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel private law with attached literature. Dieterich, Göttingen 1832. - E-Book of the Max Planck Society for European Legal History
• Two legal opinions concerning the question of equality in the Princely and Countess House of Lippe. Groos, Heidelberg 1875. - E-Book of the Max Planck Society for European Legal History

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 125.
2. ↑ [1] letter; State and University Library Göttingen
3. ↑ [2] map

literature

• Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , p. 369.
• Ferdinand Frensdorff :  Zachariae, Heinrich Albert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 617-632.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Albert Zachariä  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Heinrich Albert Zachariä in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinrich Albert Zachariä in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Heinrich Albert Zachariä in the Internet Archive