Hermann Grashof

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Hermann Grashof (born June 27, 1809 in Brilon ; † September 24, 1867 ) was a German lawyer and politician from the Sauerland .

Life

Hermann Grashof was born on June 27, 1809 in Brilon. His father, Konrad Grashof, was the chief forester at the same place . His mother was born Aussel out of Füchten bei Neheim . After his father was transferred, Hermann Grashof grew up in Fredeburg , Meschede and Hirschberg . From 1822 to 1827 he attended the Laurentianum grammar school in Arnsberg , and later the grammar school in Soest . Due to a serious illness, he was unable to take his Abitur either in the Sauerland or later in Bonn .

In 1860 Grashof married a daughter of the Vogel family from Dahlbruch .

When Hermann Grashof died on September 24, 1867, friends called him “the best friend I had in this world”.

Professional background

From 1828 Grashof studied law and political science in Würzburg . He also took philology and medicine from 1830 .

In Würzburg, Grashof co-founded the Amicitia fraternity . This was a cover connection that represented the Germanistic direction . Because of the distribution of the revolutionary pamphlet May Day, Grashof was arrested twice in the summer of 1831, but released again. In order to avoid further persecution, Grashof tried to enroll in Berlin , but was refused.

That is why he went to Jena in 1832 , where he was arrested twice again because of membership of the Germania fraternity . Dismissed as innocent, Grashof moved to Göttingen in autumn 1833 to continue studying . Although belonging to the moderate fraternity, Grashof was also exposed to further persecution in Göttingen. On the point of finishing his studies in Rostock , Grashof was arrested by the Prussian ministerial commission at the beginning of May 1834 in his parents' house in Meschede. After frequent interrogations lasting over a year, Grashof was taken to Magdeburg Fortress .

Grashof was seen as so dangerous to the state that the Berlin Court of Appeal sentenced him on August 4, 1836 to the loss of civil rights , confiscation of property and death by the hatchet for the offense of lese majesty and for participating in the treasonable fraternity in Würzburg . On December 11, 1836, the sentence was changed to 30 years of imprisonment . The Mecklenburg dialect poet Fritz Reuter was also imprisoned . A special friendship developed between the two men. Reuter describes Grashof in Ut mine fortress stid as “a state girl with a good sense of humor, full of military institutions, aewer you are skinny. From inside what is called a good man, vull your un vull honesty, with em gor tau sihr docile Hart and with an approval, the ummer up Jensiet von de Festungswäll walking ”.

With the general amnesty at the accession to the throne of Friedrich Wilhelm IV . Grashof was released again in August 1840. However, he was unable to finish his studies. He became an accountant , then rendant at the Cologne Müsener Mining Association in Lohe near Kredenbach (Siegen district). In 1848 Grashof emerged again politically and was u. a. Leader of a democratic people's assembly in Meschede. Under his leadership, a petition was circulated to the two national assemblies (Berlin and Frankfurt) in which u. a. the introduction of an income tax with the abolition of all other taxes, including customs duties, election of parish officials by parishioners, administration of the property of the political and church parishes excluding the supervision of the state, revision of the judicial system, etc. Grashof also emerged in the craft association through various reform proposals. In 1862 he became deputy director of Lübeck's life insurance company.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 169-171.
  • Große-Dresselhaus: From Hermann Grashof's "Fortress Tid" . In: Siegener Heimat-Kalender 1969 . 1969.
  • Schulte, Wilhelm : Westphalian heads, 300 life pictures of important Westphalians . Munster 1977.
  • Schulte, Wilhelm: People and State, Westphalia in the pre-March period and in the revolution of 1848/49 . Regensberg and Münster 1954.
  • Patrick Sensburg : The great lawyers of the Sauerland . 22 biographies of outstanding legal scholars. 1st edition. FW Becker, Arnsberg 2002, ISBN 3-930264-45-5 (276 pages).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schulte, Wilhelm, Westphalian heads, 300 life pictures of important Westphalians, Münster 1977. p. 93.
  2. ↑ Schulte, Wilhelm, Westphalian heads, 300 life pictures of important Westphalians, p. 447
  3. ↑ Schulte, Wilhelm, Westphalian heads, 300 life pictures of important Westphalians, Münster 1977. p. 448.
  4. ↑ Dvorak, Helge, Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft, Vol. 1; P. 169
  5. ↑ Dvorak, Helge, Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft, Vol. 1; P. 170
personal data
SURNAME Grashof, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician from the Sauerland
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Brilon
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1867