Herbord Sigismund Ludwig von Bar

Ludwig von Bar

Herbord Sigismund Ludwig von Bar (born November 1, 1763 at Barenaue Castle ; † December 20, 1844 in Osnabrück ) was a lawyer in the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , a lawyer and member of parliament in the Kingdom of Westphalia and finally a civil servant and president of the Estates Assembly in the Kingdom of Hanover .

Life

Ancien Régime

Ludwig von Bar was the grandson of Erblanddrost and writer Georg Ludwig von Bar . He was lord of the Barenaue estate and also hereditary land of the Principality of Osnabrück .

Bar studied law in Göttingen with Johann Stephan Pütter, among others . From 1785 he worked in the judicial service of the Kingdom of Hanover. As a councilor at the law firm in Osnabrück, he came into close contact with Justus Möser . Bar later received part of Möser's estate.

Kingdom of Westphalia

In 1807 he became a member of the Estates Deputation of the Kingdom of Westphalia for the Osnabrück Landeskollegium . This traveled to France to discuss a constitution for the Kingdom of Westphalia . A year later Bar was president of the first instance tribunal in Osnabrück. He was also the special liquidator of the public debt of the former Principality of Osnabrück. Between 1808 and 1811 he was a member of the electoral college for the department of the Weser . He was also a member of the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia .

From 1808 to 1813 Bar was a member of the interior and justice section of the State Council (appointment to State Council on October 25, 1808) of the Kingdom of Westphalia in Kassel as well as the chancellery and consistorial director in Osnabrück. The state honored him with high awards. In 1810 he became a Knight of the Order of the Westphalian Crown and in 1811 Commander of the Order.

Civil servant and MP

Grave of the von Bar couple at the Johannisfriedhof in Osnabrück

After the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia, Bar was a member of the provisional general meeting of estates for the Kingdom of Hanover from 1814 to 1819 as a deputy of the knighthood of the Principality of Osnabrück. He served as General Syndic in 1814/15 and from 1815 to 1819 as President of the Assembly. At times (from 1816) he was president of the royal provincial administration in Osnabrück. With the establishment of the Landdrostien in 1823 he became Landdrost of the same district. In 1835 he was appointed a real secret council. That same year he was convicted of his services to care for the welfare of the city of Osnabrück and its public institutions to freedom of the city of Osnabrück .

Ludwig von Bar died in Osnabrück in 1844. His grave and that of his wife Catharine Charlotte, née Dürfeld (1769–1834), are in the Johannisfriedhof .

literature

• Ferdinand Frensdorff:  Bar, Herbord Sigismund Ludwig von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 44 f.
• Jochen Lengemann , Biographical Handbook of the Imperial Estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Estates Assembly of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-458-16185-6 , pages 114–115
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , pp. 60-61.

Web links

• Short biography on lwl.org
• Bar, Herbord Sigismund Ludwig von. Hessian biography. (As of November 1, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).