Heinrich von Feder

Heinrich von Feder

Franz Heinrich von Feder (born January 20, 1822 in Wertheim ; † March 19, 1887 there ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Feder was a son of the princely Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg archives and domain councilor Franz Heinrich von Feder (1787-1851) and his wife Elisabeth Franziska Breisky (1790-1862).

He attended high school in Wertheim from 1832 to 1839 and from 1839 studied law at the universities of Bonn , Heidelberg and Berlin . Feder was a member of the Corps Palatia Bonn and Rhenania Heidelberg . After passing the state examination in law in June 1844, he became a trainee lawyer at the Oberamt Bruchsal and in 1848 a lawyer at the Middle Rhine Court Court, ibid. In 1849, he defended the revolutionary Karl Blind, who was accused of high treason, in Freiburg . In 1851 he settled as a lawyer in Offenburg , 1869 in Mannheim , and again in Wertheim in 1886.

His political career began in 1863 as a member of the Second Chamber of Baden , of which he was a member until 1886, i.e. for more than twenty years. Heinrich von Feder was one of the leaders of the left wing of the Baden liberals. As a Member of Parliament, he was a member of the Standing Committee on Petitions, the Commission for the Draft Law on the Judiciary and Proceedings in Police Criminal Matters and the Commission for the Draft Law on the Legal Relationships of Judges.

Works (selection)

• The Peace of Prague as the basis for the reorganization of Germany , 1867
• History of the city of Mannheim , 1875/77

literature

• Karl Baer: Heinrich von Feder . In: Badische Biographien IV, Karlsruhe 1891, pp. 115–125
• Frank Engehausen: Heinrich v. Feather. The political career of a Baden democrat in the 19th century (= small series of the Mannheim City Archives No. 7), Mannheim 1997