Johann Bernhard Siegel

Johann Bernhard Siegel (born September 17, 1751 in Bruchsal , † November 24, 1833 in Mannheim ) was a lawyer and politician from Baden .

origin

Siegel's father was a butcher and innkeeper in Bruchsal, the former residence of the Speyer monastery . He belonged to the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Siegel studied law at the University of Heidelberg and was court judge in 1774 in the Palatinate residence city of Mannheim. In 1792 he moved to Germersheim as a land clerk , from where he fled in 1793 because of the turmoil of the French Revolutionary War . In 1797 he became a member of the government and in 1800 an appellate judge in Mannheim. In 1803 he moved to the higher court in Bruchsal as Privy Councilor, where he was appointed Vice Chancellor in 1803 and first Chancellor in 1807. In 1810 he received the title of Baden State Councilor and in 1816 went to Mannheim as President of the Court of Justice.

Siegel belonged to the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly in 1819 and became its first president.

In 1819 Siegel became district director in Mannheim, which is why he resigned his state parliament mandate, and retired in 1822 for health reasons.

literature

• Hans-Peter Becht: The Baden second chamber and its members, 1819 to 1841/42. Investigations into the structure and functioning of an early German parliament. Dissertation University of Mannheim, Heidelberg 1985, p. 497