Hermann Barschall

Hermann Philipp Barschall (* 1815 ; † 1859 ) was a German administrative lawyer and royal Prussian district administrator in the Thorn district (1852-1859).

Barschall was of Jewish origin and was baptized into the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Old Lutheran) . He studied law in Berlin , worked as an auscultator at the city court from 1827 and from 1829 at the court clerk at the Berlin Court of Appeal . In 1831 he was garrison auditor in Posen and in 1834 in Cosel, and from 1834 he was again at the Supreme Court. After he had temporarily lost his office because of persecution of his denomination, he became director of the penal institution in Brandenburg an der Havel in 1844 . In 1851 Barschall was appointed on an interim basis and from 1852 until his death as district administrator in Thorn .

Barschall was married to Franziska von Puttkamer , the cousin of Johanna von Puttkamer , wife of Otto von Bismarck , for the second time . The families were friends and shared their denomination. Like Bismarck, Barschall was a right-wing conservative politician. In 1849 he renounced his candidacy for the Prussian state parliament in the Westhavelland-Zauche constituency in favor of Bismarck , for which he was very grateful and probably mediated his appointment as district administrator.

literature

• Hamburger, Ernest: Jews in the public service. Government members, civil servants and parliamentarians in the monarchical period 1848 - 1918. (= series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute; 19) Tübingen 1968, pp. 71f. [1]
• Bärbel Holtz (edit.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 4 / II. In: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Acta Borussica . New episode. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-487-11827-0 , p. 542 ( Online ; PDF 1.9 MB).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The year of birth is doubtful, as he could hardly have completed his law degree at the age of 12, but it says so in the sources!