Hermann Brassert

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Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Brassert (born May 26, 1820 in Dortmund ; † March 16, 1901 in Bonn ) was a Prussian lawyer and mining captain . He worked out the Prussian mining law of 1865 and was editor of the magazine for mining law .

Life

Hermann Brassert was born on May 26th, 1820 in Dortmund as the son of the mining captain Johann Gustav Brassert and his wife Henriette Brassert. Kortmann born and baptized Protestant .

The father Johann Gustav , born on September 19, 1790 in Breslau, came from an old, probably originally Saxon, civil servant family that had lived in Silesia for generations. He studied in Freiberg , worked at the Oberbergamt Breslau, took part in the Wars of Liberation and then returned to Breslau. In 1817 he was appointed Senior Mining Authority Assessor and Technical Member of the Oberbergamt Dortmund, in 1822 appointed Oberbergrat and in 1846 the secret mountain ridge. In 1851 he took over the management of the Halle Oberbergamt as mining captain and retired six years later. He died on August 16 in Halle (Saale). He and his wife had ten children, of which Hermann was the oldest. Siblings were among others Wilhelm (born January 8, 1922), Gustav and Alexander.

Hermann Brassert passed the Abitur at the city high school together with his brother Wilhelm at Easter 1841 and then studied law and political science with him in Berlin, Heidelberg and Bonn until 1844. They also spent their legal traineeship together in Dortmund and Hamm. During his studies he became a member of the Fridericia Bonn fraternity in 1843 . In 1848 Hermann Brassert passed the assessor exam and initially worked at the Dortmund District Court, the Hamm Court of Appeal and the Essen Mountain Court . In 1849 he took over the position of provisional mountain judge and legal advisor to his brother Wilhelm at the Siegen Mining Authority, where he was appointed deputy to the mining director Otto Ludwig Krug von Nidda on July 4, 1850 , who promoted and supported him, and on July 24, 1850, he was appointed to the mountain ridge .

In the same year he married Anna Sophie Elisabeth Wilmanns, daughter of the Dortmund district court director, whom he had known since school. The couple had two daughters: Helene (1851-1926) and Emmy (1858-1910). On April 1, 1855, Brassert was appointed Oberbergrat and transferred to the Bonn Mining Authority . On June 24, 1864 he was appointed Secret Mining Council and Lecturing Council in the Ministry of Commerce, and in December of the same year he was appointed Mining Captain and Director of the Bonn Higher Mining Authority, which was the first time that a lawyer took over the management of a Prussian Mining Authority.

Services

Hermann Brassert developed a strong scientific activity and in 1858 published the collection " Mountain Regulations of the Prussian Lands", which earned him the reputation of being the best expert on Prussian mining law. In 1860 he and Heinrich von Achenbach founded the magazine for mining law , which became the leading specialist journal in the German-speaking region and was also internationally recognized. A year later he published another fundamental work on the mining law of the General Prussian Land Law .

In 1861 he was commissioned to work out a draft law, the aim of which was to replace these individual laws with a mining law for all of Prussia. This plan had been advocated by Nidda since mentor Krug. On June 24, 1865, the General Mining Act for the Prussian States came into force, based on Brassert's drafts. This law created the most liberal mining law in all of Europe, served as a model for the mining laws of many countries, was amended many times and was only replaced by the Federal Mining Act in 1980 . In 1866 he was entrusted with the introduction of the Prussian mining law in and the integration into the Prussian mining administration of the new province Hessen-Nassau , in 1869 he also took over the mining administration for Waldeck . He participated in the Bavarian Mining Act of 1869 and the Württemberg Mining Act of 1874. The mining law for Alsace-Lorraine , enacted on December 16, 1873, of which he headed the Mining Office from 1871 to 1874, was largely the work of Brassert.

In 1878 he was appointed chief miner in Berlin to succeed Krug von Nidda, but declined this appointment for personal reasons, as he wanted to spare his sick wife from moving and instead stayed in Bonn. There he was 1871-1901 city councilor and long in the presbytery of the church. Hermann Brassert retired on October 1, 1892, but continued his scientific work.

He died on March 16, 1901 of pneumonia or pleurisy and was buried three days later at the old cemetery in Bonn , where his grave with the war-damaged gravestone is still to this day.

Awards and recognitions

Brassert monument on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn
  • 1858: Red Eagle Order 4th class
  • 1865: Red Eagle Order 3rd class with ribbon
  • 1865: Honorary doctorate from the Law Faculty of the University of Bonn
  • 1875: Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class with oak leaves
  • 1889: Appointment to the Really Secret Oberbergrat
  • 1892: Red Eagle Order with Star
  • 1892: As a farewell, the officials of the Bonn Higher Mining Authority presented him with a magnificent centerpiece, which is now in the treasury of the German Mining Museum in Bochum.
  • 1900: Appointed Real Privy Council with the title of Excellence

Hermann Brassert was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . The Association of Mining Interests in Mining Office District Dortmund appointed Brassert an honorary member in 1921 built his mining teams Prussia near his former workplace in Bonn a monument of Hubert Netzer was created. The street that passed it was named Brassertufer. In the Rhenish mountain towns, other streets were named after him. In Marl (Recklinghausen district) initially the Brassert colliery and to this day the entire Brassert district and its main street bore his name.

Brassert remained a humble person throughout his life and strictly refused any positions offered on supervisory boards , as this would affect his independence.

Fonts

  • as editor: Mountain Regulations of the Prussian Lands. Collection of the mining regulations valid in Prussia, together with additions, explanations and decisions of the higher tribunal. Eisen, Cologne 1858, digitized .
  • The mining law of the general Prussian land law in its materials according to official sources. Marcus, Bonn 1861, digitized .
  • General mining law for the Prussian states of June 24, 1865. With introductory laws and commentary. Marcus, Bonn 1888.

literature

  • Walter Serlo: Brassert, Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Walter Serlo: Men of the mining industry. Publishing house for social policy, economy and statistics, Berlin 1937, p. 25 f.
  • Wilhelm Pieper:  Brassert, Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 536 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gerhard Boldt : Hermann Brassert (1820–1901). In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien. Vol. 9, 1967, ZDB -ID 517699-2 , pp. 39-56.
  • Gabriele Unverferth: Hans Bohrmann. In: Biographies of important Dortmund residents. People in, from and for Dortmund. Vol. 1, 1994, ZDB -ID 919537-3 , p. 16 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Richarz: List of members of the Fridericia fraternity in Bonn (February 18, 1843 to autumn 1847) as well as the Arminia fraternity in Bonn (1847 to 1849) and the fraternity association Germania in Bonn (1843 to 1849). Presentation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Alemannia fraternity in Bonn. 2nd Edition. Langenscheidt, Bonn et al. 1894, p. 9 .
  2. ↑ Ingo Otto: Golden Treasury. Photo gallery. In: derwesten.de. February 10, 2011, accessed December 12, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
  4. ^ Brassertufer in the Bonn street cadastre
personal data
SURNAME Brassert, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brassert, Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lawyer and mining captain
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1901
Place of death Bonn