Johann Gottfried Stösser

Johann Gottfried Stösser (also Stoesser or Stößer ) (born April 3, 1781 in Karlsruhe , † December 1, 1860 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Baden lawyer and politician.

origin

Gottfried Stösser came from an old Baden civil servant family. He was the son of the court and government councilor of the same name, Johann Gottfried Stösser († 1798), and belonged to the Protestant church. He had a younger brother named Karl .

Life

After completing his studies at the University of Tübingen, Gottfried Stösser entered the Baden civil service as a legal trainee in 1803 and was initially a trainee at the Higher Court in Karlsruhe, then as a court advocate at the court of the Middle Rhine District in Rastatt . In 1807 he became assessor at the court court of the Upper Rhine District in Freiburg and later court judge. From 1809 to 1810 Stösser stayed to study French civil law in Dijon and Paris and from March 1810 was a councilor at the directorate of the Murg district in Rastatt. From 1812 to 1820 he was Obervogt of the office of Rheinbischofsheim, then until 1825 in the same capacity in Heidelberg. In 1825 he re-entered the profession of judge as a member of the Oberhofgericht in Mannheim . In 1835 he was appointed president of the court in the Seekreis Meersburg and later Konstanz. In 1846 he took temporary retirement, which he spent in Bruchsal and Durlach. On March 24, 1848, Gottfried Stösser was reactivated as Privy Councilor 2nd Class and appointed as Government Director of the Lower Rhine District in Mannheim. Just two months later, on May 31, 1848, the final retirement took place.

politics

Gottfried Stösser became a member of the legislative commission in 1830, which was a member until 1839. From 1835 to 1839 and again from 1846 to 1850 he was a member of the Karlsruhe electoral district in the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly . His political orientation was considered moderately pro-government.

family

Gottfried Stösser was married to Luise Marie Stroehlin. The couple had six children. The sons Maximilian and Ludwig also made careers as Baden officials.

Honors

• 1831 Knight's Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion
• 1837 Commander's Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion

literature

• Badische Biographien , Volume 2, Bassermann, Heidelberg 1875, p. 325 f.
• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 548 .