Heinrich Wilhelm Benjamin Weitenkampf
Heinrich Wilhelm Benjamin Weitenkampf (born October 10, 1758 in Wolfenbüttel , † June 24, 1841 ibid) was a German lawyer . He was president of the Wolfenbüttel Higher Appeal Court .
Life
Heinrich Wilhelm Benjamin Weitenkampf was born in Wolfenbüttel in 1758. He was the son of the pastor at the Braunschweiger Magnikirche , Johann Friedrich Weitenkampf, who died shortly before his birth. Weitenkampf studied law in Helmstedt from 1777 . From 1782 he worked as a lawyer at the law firm in Braunschweig before he became court advisor at the law firm in 1790. In 1808, at the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia , he became President of the Tribunal of First Instance, in 1814 President of the Regional Court, in 1829 Vice-President of the Higher Appeal Court in Wolfenbüttel and finally in 1837 its President.
On the occasion of his 50th service anniversary in 1840, Weitenkampf received numerous honors, including the honorary citizenship of the city of Wolfenbüttel, the Grand Cross of the Brunswick Order of Henry the Lion and the Commander's Cross of the Hanoverian Guelph Order . The law faculty of the University of Göttingen awarded him an honorary doctorate .
Weitenkampf died in Wolfenbüttel in June 1841 at the age of 82. He was buried in the civic cemetery behind the Trinity Church. Weitenkampf's important legal private library was inherited by the Brunswick State Minister Wilhelm Schulz , who transferred it to the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel in 1876 .
literature
- Werner Arnold: Far fight, Heinrich Wilhelm Benjamin . In: Georg Ruppelt and Sabine Solf (eds.): Lexicon on the past and present of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel , Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-447-03922-1 , p. 163.
- Günter Scheel: Far fight, Heinrich Wilhelm Benjamin . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 643 .
- On the history of the former joint higher appeal court in Wolfenbüttel . In: Braunschweigisches Magazin , Volume 70, Braunschweig 1857, pp. 134, 144, 152. ( digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Körner: German Gender Book , Volume 15, Verlag CA Starke, 1909, p. 71.
- ↑ On the history of the former joint higher appeal court in Wolfenbüttel . In: Braunschweigisches Magazin , Volume 70, Braunschweig 1857, p. 134.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Far fight, Heinrich Wilhelm Benjamin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolfenbüttel |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1841 |
| Place of death | Wolfenbüttel |