Heinrich Karl Jaup

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Heinrich Karl Jaup

Heinrich Karl Jaup (born September 27, 1781 in Giessen , † September 5, 1860 in Darmstadt ) was a grand ducal Hessian official and politician. From 1848 to 1850 he was Prime Minister of Hesse.

Life

The son of constitutional law professor Helwig Bernhard Jaup studied from 1798 to 1803 at the University of Giessen and the University of Goettingen law . In 1803 he received his doctorate in Giessen and worked as a private lecturer until 1804. In 1804 he became extraordinary, in 1806 he was appointed full professor of law in Giessen as the successor to his father’s chair and was involved in the introduction of the Code Napoléon , among other things as a Hessian delegate at the Giessen conference in 1808. From 1808, Jaup was active as a journalist for state law magazines and among others together with Crome editor of Germanien, journal for constitutional law, politics and statistics and Germanien and Europe .

In 1813 he became a provisional councilor, in 1815 he gave up his professorship and became a secret trainee lawyer in the Grand Ducal Hessian State Ministry in Darmstadt . In 1820 he was appointed to the secret council of state in the state ministry, in 1821 he moved to the ministerial department of foreign affairs. From 1824 to 1828 he headed the Legislative Commission of the Grand Duchy, then he became President of the Court of Cassation and Auditing for the Province of Rheinhessen . In 1833 he was retired for political reasons, since he had been elected to the state estates in 1832 as an opposition MP for Friedberg . After the state parliament was dissolved, he was prevented from fulfilling his new mandate by refusing to leave. Jaup worked at that time on the first and second edition of the State lexicon of Rotteck and Welcker with and was a staff member and member of the Honorary Council of the German newspaper . From 1831 to 1848 he was a member of the Darmstadt municipal council, and in 1846 and 1847 he took part in the Germanist days in Frankfurt am Main and Lübeck .

After the outbreak of the March Revolution in 1848, he was appointed to the Hessian March Ministry , from March to June as President of the State Council, from July 16 as Minister of the Interior and Chairman of the Ministry as a whole (Prime Minister).

Also in March 1848, Jaup became a member of the Committee of Seventeen , which was to draft a new constitution for Germany on behalf of the German Confederation, as a shop steward for the 16th curial vote ( Liechtenstein , Hohenzollern , Reuss , Lippe and Waldeck ) . At the end of March he took part in the pre-parliament and shortly afterwards founded the Fatherland Association in Darmstadt.

Of 18 May 1848 to 18 August 1848 he acted as deputy to the second Hessian constituency in Umstadt in the Frankfurt National Assembly , where he said the casino belonged.

From 1849 to 1850 he belonged to both the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , but had to resign from the Council of State on June 28, 1850 under pressure from the reaction.

He then worked as president of the senior consistory until 1860 and published political and legal writings in parallel.

Remarks

  1. ^ After Best / Weege, p. 191. Jaup, Heinrich Karl . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 176. According to Meyer's Konversationslexikon , the name is Helferich Bernhard Jaup . In the ADB, the father is listed under Helwig himself. Albert TeichmannJaup, Helwig Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 736 f. In the entry on Heinrich Karl Jaup he is again called Helferich .

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