Hermann Friedrich Brandis

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Hermann Friedrich Brandis , actually Christian Friedrich Hermann Brandis (born June 17, 1809 in Göttingen , † March 22, 1893 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer, member of the state government of Saxony-Meiningen and judge at the Higher Appeal Court of the four Free Cities .

Life

Hermann Brandis was a son of the Göttingen lawyer A. Brandis. After his early death, he grew up with his mother's brother, the Heidelberg law professor Christoph Martin , together with his son Eduard Arnold Martin . When Martin was appointed to the University of Jena in 1816, the family moved there. From 1823 to 1826 he attended the Friedrichgymnasium (Altenburg) .

From 1826 to 1829 he studied law at the universities of Jena and Göttingen . In 1830 he was in Göttingen with a dissertation on the Eventualmaxime to Dr. jur. PhD and private lecturer .

As a friend of Johann Ernst Arminius von Rauschenplatt and Theodor Schuster , he was involved in the Göttingen riots , during which he was elected Rauschenplatt's deputy in the student guard on January 9th. After the unrest was put down, he went to Marburg and Jena in the hope of being able to do his habilitation there. When in 1832 the University of Marburg applied for permission to do the habilitation of Brandis, Ludwig Hassenpflug refused , despite good information about his academic achievements . His habilitation had become impossible due to the events in Göttingen.

In 1834, he joined the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen as an auditor at the Higher Regional Court in Hildburghausen . From 1836 to 1838 he was an assessor at the district and city court in Hildburghausen, then assessor at the higher regional court with seat and vote as well as a member of the law commission. Appointed to the Higher Regional Court in 1840, he joined the State Ministry , the ducal government in Meiningen, as a secret trainee lawyer in 1841 . Since 1845 he was assigned to Friedrich von Werthern, who was appointed from Prussia, as a secret judicial councilor .

In 1847 he was appointed State Councilor and a full member of the Ministry. He survived the storms of spring 1848 despite a demonstration against him in Hildburghausen when he was there, and was involved in the reorganization of the upper state authorities of the duchy by uniting the previous government and the consistory with the state ministry. Duke Bernhard II of Saxony-Meiningen, who had long postponed the formation of a liberal “ March government ”, commissioned the popular Hanns Carl Wilhelm Haubold von Speßhardt , although he did not appreciate him very much, to form a government on September 8, 1848 . Speßhardt immediately abolished the previous curial style of organization of the authorities, including the middle authorities, and replaced it with a cabinet consisting of the Minister of State (himself) and three Councilors of State (Brandis, Ludwig Blomeyer , Richard Ernst Liebmann ), one of which (two of the Minister of State) of the now created five departments were assigned. Brandis took over the justice department.

After the Meiningen Landtag had objected to the government's attempt to join the Duchy to the Three Kings Alliance concluded on May 26, 1849 between Prussia , Hanover and Saxony and was therefore dissolved, Speßhardt's ministry fell on October 23, 1849, and in its place was Rudolf Hermann von Wechmar tasked with forming a government (1800-1861).

Brandis was no longer a member of this government, but became a member of the short-lived Erfurt Union Parliament in 1850 as a member of the short-lived Erfurt Union Parliament elected by the Duke and Landtag for the House of States .

When, in the spring of 1850, it was the turn of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen to fill one of the judges' posts at the Higher Appeal Court of the four Free Cities in Lübeck, on April 27, 1850 the eleven-member electoral committee made up of the Senate and the citizenry, following a proposal by Rudolph Dulon , nominated the Oldenburger Wilhelm Wibel with six to five votes, whereby the members of the citizenship of the committee overruled the members of the Senate. The defeated Senate subsequently succeeded in convincing the Senates of Hamburg and Lübeck not to agree to the appointment of the Democrat Wibel with references to his allegedly broken private and financial circumstances .

The Bremen Senate appointed Brandis to replace Wibel. Its introduction took place on June 13, 1851. He stayed there, most recently as 1st (longest serving) councilor under President Johann Friedrich Kierulff , until the court was dissolved by the Reich Justice Acts in 1879 and retired on October 1, 1879. He stayed in Lübeck, most recently at Catharinenstrasse 13.

family

Brandis was married three times. He first had Sophie, born in Hildburghausen in 1838. Hieronymi (* 1816), the daughter of a councilor in Hildburghausen, married, but she died in 1846. In 1848 he married Sophia Götz, daughter of the dean Chr. Wilh. Götz in Ansbach and niece of his friend Moritz Seebeck , who died in Lübeck in 1856. He then married her sister Maria Götz in 1858.

The daughter from her first marriage Mathilde (* 1841 in Hildburghausen; † 1913) married the businessman Georg Blohm (1835–1909) in Hamburg, one of the sons of Georg Blohm (businessman) . The two daughters from their second marriage, both born in Meiningen, worked as teachers in Lübeck, Ida as a language teacher and Anna as a drawing teacher. The son from the third marriage, Otto (* 1856 in Lübeck), became judge and president of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg; he was married to a daughter of Wilhelm von Planck . Other children from the third marriage were Emilie (* 1859) and Ernst (1861–1921), who became a chemist in Griesheim .

Works

  • De eo quod in litibus sub conditione fieri debet Eventual Maxime: Commentatio I. Göttingen: Autumn 1830
  • Treatises from the Civil Process. Jena: Frommann 1834
Volume 1: About the point in time at which the disadvantages of disobedience occur: a contribution to the doctrine of disobedience in general.
  • De solutionis causa adjecto. Hilperhusae 1835

literature

  • Rudolf Armin Human: Chronicle of the city of Hildburghausen. Hildburghausen: Kesselring 1886, p. 355f
  • Ulrich Hess: Secret Council and Cabinet in the Ernestine States of Thuringia. P. 396

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jörg H. Lampe: "Freyheit und Order": the January events of 1831 and the breakthrough to the constitutional state in the Kingdom of Hanover. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen ISSN  0933-3320 250) Hahnsche Buchhandlung 2009 ISBN 9783775260503 , p. 226
  2. ^ Hermann Hupfeld , Johann Wilhelm Bickell : Documents of a friendship in difficult times: Correspondence, 1832-1848. Historical Commission for Hesse, 2010 ISBN 9783942225120 , p. 332, note 232
  3. ↑ Human (lit.)
  4. ^ Stefan Gerber: University administration and scientific organization in the 19th century. The Jena pedagogue and university curator Moritz Seebeck. Böhlau publishing house. Cologne 2004. ISBN 3-412-12804-X , p. 166
  5. ^ Eva Maria Werner: The March Ministries: Governments of the Revolution of 1848/49 in the States of the German Confederation , V&R unipress, Göttingen, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-510-1 (pp. 32–34)
  6. ^ Wilhelm Germann:  Bernhard Erich Freund, Duke of Saxony-Meiningen-Hildburghausen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 409-424.
  7. ↑ Werner Biebusch: revolution and coup: constitutional struggles in Bremen from 1848 to 1854. Bremen: Schünemann 1973, p 113
  8. ↑ Michael Kotulla: German Constitutional Law 1806-1918: A collection of documents and introductions. Volume 4: Bremen, Heidelberg: Springer 2015 ISBN 9783540295051 , p. 202
  9. ^ Collection of laws of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .. 15 (1879), p. 143
  10. ^ Stefan Gerber: University administration and scientific organization in the 19th century. The Jena pedagogue and university curator Moritz Seebeck. Böhlau publishing house. Cologne 2004. ISBN 3-412-12804-X , p. 166
  11. ↑ Information mostly from Human (Lit.), p. 356 note.
personal data
SURNAME Brandis, Hermann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandis, Christian Friedrich Hermann (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, member of the state government of Saxony-Meiningen and judge at the Higher Appeal Court of the four Free Cities
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1893
Place of death Lübeck