Heinrich Joseph Kampers

Heinrich Joseph Kampers (born November 6, 1806 in Stromberg (Hunsrück) , † before 1886) was a German lawyer and Prussian politician .

Life

Born the son of a justice of the peace , Kampers studied law in Bonn after attending the Kreuznach high school . During his studies in 1827 he became a member of the old Bonn fraternity Germania . After his exams he became an auscultator at the Higher Regional Court of Münster in 1829 and a trainee lawyer at the Koblenz City Court in 1851 . Together with Friedrich Kautz , he campaigned for persecuted fraternity members during the demagogue era . In 1832, at the request of Prince von Wied, he became administrator of the judicial offices of the Principality of Wied . So Kampers worked from 1832 to 1833 as a judicial secretary in Neuchâtel, then until mid-1834 in the Asbach judicial office. He became an advocate for the princely government in Neuwied and then worked as a justice of the peace in Sobernheim until 1842 . Discharged from civil service , he was mayor of Heddesdorf from 1842 to 1852 . He also served as the commander of a Landwehr company from 1846 to 1852 , most recently as a captain . In 1852 he returned to the civil service and temporarily took over the district administration office in Simmern . Later he became district administrator of the Altenkirchen district . From 1855 to 1858 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Prussian state parliament . In 1875 he was retired.

Honors

• Landwehr service award
• Hohenzollern medal for fighters 1848/49
• 1857: Order of the Red Eagle , 4th class
• 1875: Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd class with ribbon

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 61-62.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , p. 72.