Heinrich Goddaeus

Bernhard Philipp Heinrich Goddaeus or Goddäus (born January 9, 1742 in Kassel ; † December 16, 1819 ibid), was a Landgrave Hessian judicial and administrative official , most recently a judge at the Higher Appeal Court in Kassel. He was raised to the nobility in 1812 and 1814 and thus the progenitor of the Hessian noble family von Goddaeus.

Life

He was the sixth of seven children and the fourth of five sons of Johann Friedrich Goddaeus (1692–1772), Hessen-Kassel Vice Chancellor and Privy Councilor, and his wife Catharina Christine Dehn-Rothfelser (1705–1782). His father's ancestors originally came from Westphalia . One of them was Johann Gödde (1555–1632), born in Schwerte, who studied law in Marburg , where he became rector of the Philipps University and Latinized his name : Johannes Goddaeus .

Heinrich Goddaeus studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1760 and entered the service of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel as government procurator in 1766 . In 1773 he became a judiciary . 1776 he was appointed as Councilor for Rinteln in the county foam placed where he worked until the 1795th In 1795 he was appointed chief appeal officer at the higher appeal court in Kassel. During the time of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813) he was a judge at the Court of Appeal in Kassel. After the restitution of Kurhessen in 1813, he served again at the Higher Appeal Court in Kassel. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1814 and retired in 1817.

Elevation of rank

In November 1811 Goddaeus tried to raise the status of King Jérôme Bonaparte of Westphalia , referring to the decree on the title commission passed two months earlier . He was referred to the official channels because the application should have been made to the title commission. But this worked very quickly, so that Heinrich Goddaeus was made a knight on March 26, 1812 (with a diploma from November 5, 1812).

This nobility elevation was not recognized by Kurhessen after the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia , but Heinrich Goddaeus was raised to the nobility of Hesse on November 18, 1814 for his services. His son Bernhard then took the name "von Goddaeus".

Marriage and offspring

Goddaeus married Amalie Sophie Adelheid von Hüllesheim (1768 / 69-1828) on December 7, 1785, daughter of the Prussian secret war and domain councilor Johann Bernhard von Hüllesheim. The marriage had two children, both born in Rinteln :

Bernhard Philipp Friedrich von Goddaeus (* August 7, 1788 - March 5, 1853), State Councilor of Hessen-Kassel

Wilhelmine Amalie Auguste Friederike von Goddaeus (* March 10, 1790 - September 15, 1848)

literature

Karl-Heinz Nickel, Harald Schmidt, Florian Tennstedt u. Heide Wunder : Short biographies , in: Georg Wannagat (Hrsg.): Kassel as the city of lawyers and the courts in their thousand-year history . Heymann, Cologne a. a., 1990, p. 415. (PDF; 12, 8 MB) .

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personal data
SURNAME	Goddaeus, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Goddaeus, Heinrich von; Goddäus, Bernhard Philipp Heinrich; Goddaeus, Bernhard Philipp Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Judge at the Court of Appeal in Kassel
DATE OF BIRTH	January 9, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH	kassel
DATE OF DEATH	December 16, 1819
Place of death	kassel