Hermann Hüffer

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Hermann Hüffer (from Volume 80 (1906) of the Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine )

Hermann Joseph Julius Alexander Hüffer (born March 24, 1830 in Münster , † March 15, 1905 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and historian.

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Hermann Hüffer came from a family that had lived in Münster for generations and was the son of the publisher and later Lord Mayor of Münster, Johann Hermann Hüffer and his second wife Julia, née. Merchant, born. (Half) brothers were among others the co-founder of the Center Party , Alfred Hüffer , the founder of the Hüfferstiftung , Wilhelm Hüffer (1821–1895) and the music critic Francis Hueffer (1843–1889). One of his mother's brothers was the future mayor of Bonn , Leopold Kaufmann .

After graduating from high school in 1848, Hermann Hüffer studied law in Bonn and Berlin from 1848 to 1851 , obtained his doctorate in 1853 and qualified as a professor in Bonn in 1855, and became associate professor in 1860 and full professor in 1873. In 1884 he was appointed a secret councilor and in 1890 was rector of the university. In 1902 he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Hüffer had been a member of the Catholic reading club since 1854, now KStV Askania-Burgundia in the KV .

From 1864 to 1865 he belonged to the Prussian House of Representatives and from 1867 to 1870 to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation as a member of the constituency of Düsseldorf 9 (Kempen).

In his work Austria and Prussia up to the conclusion of the Peace of Campo Formio of 1868, he specifically fought Sybel's view and assessment of Prussian and Austrian politics as too partisan and tried to take a middle position between Heinrich von Sybel and his Austrian opponents, especially Vivenot . He defended this against the former in a polemical work Politics of the German Powers in the Revolutionary War of 1869. This was followed by the comprehensive work The Rastatt Congress and the Second Coalition in 1878.

He also edited several literary-historical articles on Heinrich Heine (Berlin 1879), Marianne von Willemer and others. His “Memoirs”, published only after Ernst Sieper's death, are of cultural and historical importance for the description of academic life in Germany in the second half of the 19th century.

Although he was deeply educated and rooted in the Roman Catholic faith, over the years Hüffer developed an increasing distance from the teaching office of the Church . When at the Munich scholars' meeting in 1863, to which he had been invited by Ignaz von Döllinger , the participants were asked to make the Trento creed , he withdrew from the congress. "This religious-critical attitude explains his opposition to the council in 1870 and especially the infallibility dogma." Only in the last months of his life did he turn to this again in intensive discussions with the Bonn dogmatist Gerhard Esser , which he himself had requested Roman Catholic faith and received absolution from him on his deathbed .

Works (selection)

  • Contributions to the history of the sources of canon law and Roman law in the Middle Ages (Münster 1862)
  • Research in the field of French and Rhenish canon law (1863)
  • Austria and Prussia up to the conclusion of the Campo Formio peace (Bonn 1868),
  • The Rastatt Congress and the Second Coalition (Bonn 1878, 2 volumes).
  • Policy of the German Powers in the Revolutionary War (Münster 1869)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , 1989, photo p. 177, short biography p. 420.
  2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 169.
  3. ↑ Detmar Hüffer: In memory of Hermann Hüffer, p. 413

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personal data
SURNAME Hüffer, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hüffer, Hermann Joseph Julius Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1905
Place of death Bonn