Heinrich Graeff

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Konotop Castle (p)
Grave of Heinrich Graeff in Konotop Castle Park (p)

Heinrich Graeff (also Gräff ) (born August 4, 1800 in Leipzig , Kingdom of Saxony ; † January 25, 1861 in Kontopp near Grünberg , province of Silesia ) was a German lawyer , editor , publicist and author of legal and legislative books and writings, politicians as well Landlord (manor owner von Kontopp) and privateer .

biography

Origin and family

Heinrich Graeff, also Gräff, came from Leipzig. Gräff married Auguste and had a daughter with Maria Gräff (also Graef and Gräf ), who married Heinrich Constantin Adelbert Foerster, who later became the landlord of Kontopp. One of his descendants was Lothar Foerster (1865 on Kontopp- 1939 in Danzig ), administrative lawyer and as district president in West Prussian Danzig.

At the same time, the booksellers and publishers family Gräff (also Graeff) were active in Leipzig from 1788, although it is not known whether Heinrich Graeff came from them. This Gräff family consisted of the brothers Ernst Martin Gräff (1760–1802), Heinrich Gräff (born 1766; moved to Königsberg in 1827 ) and Hermann (died 1794), who were renamed the Heinrich Gräff bookstore after the death of the two brothers . The family was in close contact with Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi . The three Mr. Gräff were brothers of the Protestant pastor Friedrich Gustav Gräff (Graeff) from Langenhanshagen in Swedish Pomerania . He was pastor von Barth (1750–1798; pastor from 1776), had eleven sons and a daughter, and was friends with Ernst Moritz Arndt , whose father-in-law he almost became. One of these sons was Wilhelm Graeff (1781-1839), who went to Leipzig to study with his uncle Heinrich Graeff, founded a bookshop in St. Petersburg in 1807 , and was commissioner of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. The members of the Pomeranian pastor family can be up to Dr. jur. Joachim Heinrich Gräff (e) (1670 in Prenzlau , Brandenburg -1752 in Barth), lawyer at the Königl. Prussian court and chamber court and bailiff of Gramzow / Brandenburg. The latter married Anna Maria von Lilienancker (1688–1754) in Stettin (Swedish-Pomerania) in 1705 , for which Friedrich Gottlieb Klingenberg composed the piece of music It gets love once lust .

As a lawyer and author

Heinrich Graeff studied law at the universities of Berlin , Leipzig and Halle from 1818 to 1821 . In 1819 he became a member of the Corps Marchia Berlin . He then joined the Corps Marchia Halle . In 1826 he became an assessor in Breslau . From 1827 to 1855 he was a lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Breslau .

Graeff was co-author of the commentary on general land law , and editor, author and publicist of various legal books and writings.

As a politician

Heinrich Graeff was a member of the city ​​council of Breslau from 1845 to 1848 and from 1851 to 1853 , of which he was temporarily head. From 1851 to 1855 he sat as a member of the constituency of Breslau 1 and from 1858 to 1860 of the constituency of Liegnitz 2 in the Prussian House of Representatives . At first he belonged to the faction of the Left ; from 1859 he was non-attached. On May 9, 1860, he resigned from his seat.

Manor account

In 1845 the manor Kontopp came into the possession of Heinrich Constantin Adelbert Foerster and Heinrich Graeff, where he lived and died as a private citizen .

Social

Heinrich Graeff was the founder and for many years president of the constitutional association in Breslau. Furthermore, he was one of the founders of the Gustav-Adolf Association in Göttingen .

Awards

As editor (selection)

  • Collection of all ordinances contained in von Kamptz's yearbooks for Prussian legislation up to the end of 1833: compiled according to the subject matter ., Berlin and Breslau 1837
  • Additions and explanations of the General Court Order through legislation and science: using the Justice Ministerial files and the law revision work
  • Additions and explanations of the Prussian legal books through legislation and science: using the Justice Ministerial files and the law revision work , Breslau 1851

literature

  • Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 , p. 111.
  • German biography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yearbook of the Silesian Association for Mining and Metallurgy Breslau, Volume 3, p. 42
  2. ↑ Official list of foreigners for Bad Reichenhall: 1873
  3. ↑ Studies on German literary history (1990)
  4. ^ Journal for Education, p. 312ff; edited by Stefan Graber
  5. ↑ unknown Pomerania letters from Greifswald University Library: Walter Menn's 50th birthday. "Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald", Bamberg 1940. p. 47
  6. ^ Ernst Moritz Arndt: Freedom Fighters and Patriot, p. 18. By Gustav Erdmann (1960)
  7. ^ Pomerania: History, Culture, Science, see, 284. By Horst Wernicke, 1996
  8. ↑ Bibliopolisches Jahrbuch: 1840, p. 32
  9. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Volume 12; Volume 17, p. 851
  10. ↑ DFG project "Occasional Music of the Baltic Sea Region from the 16th to the 18th Century"
  11. ^ Occasional music in the Vitae Pomeranorum: historical foundations, selected works, commentary and catalog, p. 178. By Peter Tenhaef. P. Lang Publishing House, 2000
  12. ↑ DFG project "Occasional Music of the Baltic Sea Region from the 16th to the 18th Century"
  13. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 4 , 117
  14. ↑ Statistics of the Protestant Church in Silesia, by Friedrich Gottlob Eduard Anders, p. 436
  15. ^ Journal for the Austrian high school ...: Supplementheft zu ..., Volume 12, p. 163; by Wilhelm August Ritter von Hartel, Karl Schenkl
  16. ↑ www.deutsche-biographie.de
personal data
SURNAME Graeff, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graf, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, politician and landlord
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig , Kingdom of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1861
Place of death Contact at Grünberg , Province of Silesia