Johann Gustav Heckscher

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Johann Gustav Wilhelm Moritz Heckscher (born December 26, 1797 in Hamburg , † April 7, 1865 in Vienna ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Johann Gustav Heckscher, lithograph by Isidor Popper (1848)
Proclamation of the Reich Administrator with Heckscher's signature as Minister of Justice
Heckscher in: The children of Martin Anton Heckscher, by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein , 1805

biography

Moritz Heckscher was born the son of a Jewish banker. In 1808 his father had him evangelically baptized in the name of Johann Gustav Wilhelm. From 1811 to 1816 he attended the Johanneum School of Academics . Heckscher took part in the Wars of Liberation as a volunteer in 1815 . From 1816 to 1820, he studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen Law and received his doctorate in Göttingen 1820th During his studies he became a member of the Old Göttingen Burschenschaft (1816), the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft (1817), the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg (1818) and the Göttingen and Heidelberg Burschenschaft (1818). In 1817 he was a participant in the Wartburg Festival . Heckscher was enrolled as a lawyer in Hamburg on November 10, 1820 . In the following years he traveled to Italy, France, England and Russia and usually stayed in each country for almost two years. He then worked as a lawyer in Hamburg until 1853, wrote several political and legal writings and was committed to founding a university in his hometown and as president of the Lawyers' Assembly.

In 1848 he took part in the pre-parliament , was a delegate in the Fifties Committee and represented the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from May 18, 1848 to May 30, 1849 as a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly . There he represented a kind of constitutional monarchy . He wanted a strong monarchical central power with a popular representation, which is only limited to the legislature . In July 1848 he played a major role in the establishment of the Provisional Central Authority and was, among other things, the spokesman for the Reichsverweserdeputation . On July 15, Heckscher , who belonged to the casino faction, was appointed the first Reich Minister of Justice of the provisional central authority under Prime Minister Karl zu Leiningen ; on August 9, he also took over the Reich Foreign Ministry . After Leiningen's resignation as a result of the rejection of the Treaty of Malmö on September 5, 1848, he went to Turin and Naples as envoy of the central authority until the end of the year . In December 1848 he left the casino faction and henceforth voted with the federally oriented Paris court . At the beginning of 1849, as a delegate of several committees, he tried again in vain to find a Greater German solution . After the dissolution of the Frankfurt Parliament, Heckscher returned to Hamburg and continued to work as a lawyer.

From 1853 until his death in 1865 he was the Hanseatic envoy and Hamburg ministerial resident in Vienna.

Others

Heckscher was one of the founders of the Hamburg rowing club in 1836 , and since 1840 he has also been an editor for the Hamburger Nachrichten .

literature

Portraits

Web links

Commons : Johann Gustav Heckscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Meyer: From the high school graduate matriculation of the Johanneum 1804-27 p. 26, matriculation No. 54
  2. ^ Bernhard Sommerlad : Wartburg Festival and Corps students. Then and now . Vol. 24 (1979), p. 37 (No. 29).
  3. ↑ a b c Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg legal profession from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 324.
personal data
SURNAME Heckscher, Johann Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heckscher, Johann Gustav Wilhelm Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1865
Place of death Vienna