Georg Herber

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Georg Herber's tomb in the Eltville cemetery

(Johann) Georg Herber (born January 30, 1763 in Winkel ; † March 11, 1833 in Eltville ) was a Nassau lawyer and politician. From 1818 to 1832 he was a member of the Nassau State Parliament and there for many years President of the Second Chamber.

Life and education

After studying law , Georg Herber was a court and administrative officer in Kurmainz for 15 years . He was, among other things, district bailiff in Geisenheim , since 1801 official cellar in Eltville , 1805-1815 bailiff with the title of Justizrat Eltville . After disciplinary investigations into oppositional statements, Georg Herber resigned "voluntarily" from civil service in 1815 without pension entitlement and acquired the Draiser Hof . Herber sold this to Gisbert Freiherr von Bodelschwingh-Plettenberg in 1828 and in the same year acquired the Schmidtburg'schen Hof in Eltville (Rheingauer Strasse 54).

politics

Georg Herber was elected to the second chamber of the estates of the Duchy of Nassau for the group of landowners in the Wiesbaden constituency in the first elections in 1818. In 1819 he succeeded Christian Wilhelm Snell as President of the Chamber of Deputies. In 1825 he was re-elected and confirmed as president.

The second electoral term was marked by the Nassau domain dispute . Herber was the most important representative of the liberal opposition in this dispute. With his sensational book "The Domain Controversy in the Duchy of Nassau" as well as other legal and political treatises, he convinced large parts of the parliament and the citizens and attracted the Duke's hatred.

In 1832 his mandate was revoked because he was one of the 15 MPs who boycotted the state parliament in 1832 in protest against the pair push of 1831 as part of the Nassau domain dispute. The Nassau Court and Appeal Court (which had been relocated from Wiesbaden to rural Usingen for this purpose ) sentenced him to 3 years imprisonment at the Marksburg on December 3, 1832 for insulting majesty and other "offenses". Herber was briefly released from custody. After a pardon was also rejected by the Duke, he died of a serious illness on March 11, 1833 in Eltville before he went into prison. He is buried in the Eltville cemetery. The inscription on his grave reads: "And not a shadow of a reproach burdens his soul. Good for him!"

family

Georg Herber was born the son of the cooper and winery owner (Johann Georg) Anton Herber (*? In Bommersheim, † June 1, 1794 in Winkel) and his wife Klara Elisabeth, née Gerster (November 4, 1736 - June 29, 1825).

Georg Herber married his wife Margarethe nee Travers in Geisenheim in 1799. He was a Roman Catholic.

Fonts

  • The domain dispute in the Duke of Nassau, explained from its original sources and honored according to legal principles. JD Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1831.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Herber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dagmar Söder: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Rheingau-Taunus district. Volume 1: Altkreis Rheingau. Part 2: Lorch, Oestrich-Winkel, Rüdesheim, Walluf (= cultural monuments in Hesse. 2014). Theiss, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-8062-2987-5 , pp. 164 and 198.
  2. ^ Werner Kratz: Eltville. Architectural monuments and history. Volume 1. Sebastian Wolf OHG, Eltville am Rhein 1961, p. 122.
  3. ↑ Zweibrücker Zeitung. No. 19, of February 12, 1833, p. 75 .
personal data
SURNAME Herber, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herber, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nassau politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH angle
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1833
Place of death Eltville