Johann Carl Knauth

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Johann Carl Knauth (born May 20, 1800 in Hamburg ; † December 8, 1876 ibid) was a German lawyer and founder of the oldest “ partnership in Hamburg that still exists today and one of the oldest law firms in Germany” Esche Schümann Commichau .

Life

The son of a pastor from Hamburg-Kirchwerder in the Vierlanden and the daughter of a senator , Dorothea née von Spreckelsen, attended the Johanneum School of Scholars founded by Johannes Bugenhagen in 1529 and studied law in Göttingen . At the age of 22, he took the oath of citizenship before the Hamburg council and was admitted to the Hamburg bar on June 21, 1822. In the Hamburg attorney's register, which has been in existence since 1816, it was listed under number 84. From 1859 he was elected by the Hamburg Senate to the first separate and independent upper court and from then on worked as a judge. He was a member of the Hamburg Lawyers Association, founded in 1846, and a leading member of the Patriotic Association founded in 1848.

Services

"Johann Carl Knauth Dr.", Ohlsdorf cemetery

Knauth founded the law firm "Knauth", which continues today under the name Esche Schümann Commichau and is considered to be "the oldest law firm in Hamburg that still exists today and one of the oldest law firms in Germany". His later partners include famous Hamburg lawyers who later became known as Mayor Johann Heinrich Burchard and Judge Johann Friedrich Voigt and Ernst Friedrich Sieveking , who had also been a senator. As part of his later 20 years as a senior judge, he was, among other things, in the commission for advice on the introduction of the General German Commercial Code . From 1859 to 1874 he was a member of the Hamburg parliament .

His successful work as a lawyer, especially before the commercial court, and his political work - together with Edgar Daniel Roß - in the years around 1848 ( German Revolution 1848/49 ) and in the years of the Hamburg constitutional reform of 1859 led to a special honor: He was immortalized as a medallion picture in the entrance hall of the Hamburg City Hall .

Johann Carl Knauth is commemorated on the double grave slab of the Upper Court of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery, Ohlsdorf Cemetery .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pöllath, Saenger: 200 years of business lawyers in Germany. Nomos, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4446-9
  2. ^ Matthias Gretzschel , Klaus Gille: Esche Schümann Commichau - The history of a Hamburg law firm since 1822. Esche Schümann Commichau, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9363-0092-5
personal data
SURNAME Knauth, Johann Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician, MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1876
Place of death Hamburg