Heinrich von Prieser

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Heinrich Sebastian Prieser , from 1834 von Prieser (born May 20, 1797 in Augsburg , † January 28, 1870 in Stuttgart ), was a judge and Minister of Justice in the Kingdom of Württemberg . In the pre-March period he was one of the so-called demagogue persecutors.

Life

Prieser studied law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg (1814) and the University of Landshut (1816). In 1819 he became a member of the Corps Suevia in Landshut . After the exams and the doctorate to Dr. iur. he joined the justice service in Württemberg. In 1824 Prieser became assessor at the district court in Esslingen . Despite this position in a state sub-authority, Prieser soon made himself well known in judicial circles by helping to uncover and arrest the members of the Youth League in Württemberg. On September 28, 1824, Prieser turned directly to the legal department and the Tübingen Higher Regional Court and requested both authorities to arrest the conspirators Hase, Scheurer, Rödinger, Witt, Gräter and Hauff immediately. This was a first attempt from a state sub-authority to intervene in the securitized privileges for legal self-determination of the University of Tübingen . The rector Gottlieb Friedrich Jäger protested against this at the Ministry of the Interior. Interior Minister Christoph Friedrich Schmidlin basically agreed with the Tübingen university rector, but downplayed the process by attesting that Prieser had a slightly forgivable ignorance of the special Württemberg university justice system. Ultimately, Prieser's initiative resulted in the arrest and indictment of 21 members of the Youth League. On May 26 and 27, 1825, the Esslingen Court of Justice announced prison sentences of between two months and four years for attempted high treason against 19 delinquents, contrary to the principles of the Tübingen University Act.

In 1828 Prieser took up a position as director of the office in the Württemberg Ministry of Justice. As a full judicial member, Prieser was appointed to the five-person federal central authority. There he worked with Carl Ernst von Preuschen . In 1839 he became a State Councilor and headed the Württemberg Ministry of Justice as head of the Justice Department until 1848 . In 1843 he was also formally given the title of Minister of Justice. Heinrich von Treitschke wrote: "At the head of the judiciary was the strict Prieser, who, like many other hated officials in southern Germany, had gone through his school in the Mainz black commission." This means that v. Prieser had initially been an official in the office of the Mainz Central Investigation Commission .

Honors, ennobling

source

  • Egbert Weiß : Corps students in the pre-March period - “persecuted” and “persecutors” . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 33 (1988), p. 60.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thesaurus
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 178/90.
  3. ^ A b c d e f g Thomas Oelschlägel: University policy in Württemberg 1819–1825: the effects of the Karlsbad resolutions on the University of Tübingen . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1995, p. 164 ff.
  4. ↑ E. Weiss, 1988
  5. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1839, p. 35
personal data
SURNAME Prieser, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prieser, Heinrich Sebastian von (full name); Prieser, Heinrich; Prieser, Heinrich Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge and Minister of Justice in the Kingdom of Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1870
Place of death Stuttgart