Heinrich Carl Esmarch

Heinrich Carl Esmarch

Heinrich Carl Esmarch (born September 4, 1792 in Holtenau , today a district of Kiel , † April 15, 1863 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

Esmarch was born as the son of the judiciary and customs administrator Christian Hieronymus Esmarch and his wife Christine Henriette Friederike, nee. Niemann, born. In 1809 Esmarch began studying law in Kiel and Heidelberg. In 1811 he became a member of the Corps Holsatia Heidelberg and finished his studies a year later. In 1813 he received his doctorate in law in Kiel and in the same year became a senator at the city ​​court of Kiel . In 1816 he worked as secretary of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg chancellery in Copenhagen . In 1821 he became head of the secretariat for the 1st and 2nd departments. From 1823 to 1830 he was Hardesvogt of the Südharde of the Office Sønderborg and Mayor of the city Sønderborg from Alsen . In 1830 he became a senior judge at the Schleswig Higher Court in Gottdorf . Four years later there was the second senior judge and budget councilor. In 1837 he also began working on the Schleswig-Holstein advertisements . From 1842 he was a member of the city of Sonderburg at the Schleswig provincial estates , which he remained until 1846. In 1847 he became an employee of the Deutsche Zeitung in Heidelberg and a year later a member of the United Schleswig-Holstein Assembly of Estates . On May 18, 1848 he became a member of the National Assembly. He was elected in the 5th electoral district of Husum . He belonged to the left center and the Augsburger Hof parliamentary group . From May 29, 1848 he was a member of the committee for international law and international issues . His membership in the National Assembly ended on May 24, 1849, after which he took part in the Gotha post-parliament . In 1850 he became provisional mayor of Rendsburg , but a year later he was removed from office because he had been expressly excluded from the amnesty for the Schleswig-Holstein survey and had been expelled. In 1852 he became a district judge in Stettin and later in Stralsund . In 1854 he became a judge of appeal in Greifswald . From the university there he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1856 . In 1857 he left Greifswald and went to Frankfurt (Oder) , still serving as a judge of appeal .

Several cities posthumously honored Heinrich Carl Esmarch by naming streets, for example Altona .

Works

• Practical description of the criminal proceedings in the Duchy of Schleswig , Schleswig 1840

literature

• Karl Esmarch .:  Esmarch, Heinrich Carl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 375 f.
• Joachim Winkler: Member of the National Assembly of 1848 from Frankfurt (Oder). In: Communications Frankfurt (Oder). Historical Association of Frankfurt (Oder) e. V .; Issue 1 1998; Pp. 29-40
• Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , pp. 136-137 ( online version ).
• Egbert Weiß: Corps students in the Paulskirche. In: then and now. Special issue 1990, Munich 1990, pp. 19-20.

Footnotes

1. ↑ cf. Beest / Weege 1996, p. 136; Winkler names 1819 - Winkler 1998, p. 34
2. ↑ According to Winkler, he is already a judge of appeals in Stralsund , in contradiction to this Best / Weege