Johann Hermann August Capaun-Karlowa

Johann Hermann August Capaun-Karlowa , until his ennoblement in 1846 only Capaun , (born March 15, 1804 in Bückeburg , † February 19, 1875 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German civil servant and judge in the Principality of Lippe .

Johann Hermann August Capaun studied law and joined the Schaumburg-Lippische civil service as a trainee lawyer in 1824 . In 1828 he became a chamber attorney, in 1830 a government assessor and archivist and in 1840 a councilor in the government council of the principality. In 1846 he was raised to the nobility. Since then he has been using the name Capaun-Karlowa .

During the March Revolution he took liberal positions and was a leading force in the Lippe government. From 1848 to 1849 he was the representative of the Principality of Lippe in the provisional central authority . At the end of 1849 he took the side of parliament and supported the demand for the introduction of the negotiated constitution. Prince Leopold III. dismissed the liberal representatives in the government, including Capaun-Karlowa on November 29, 1849.

In 1850 he was transferred to the Wolfenbüttel Higher Appeal Court , where he became a member of the Higher Appeal Court in 1867.

His son Otto Karlowa became a law professor.

literature

• Ernst-Hermann Grefe: The Mediatization Question and the Principality of Lippe in the Years 1848–1849 . Diss., 1965, p. 20.
• Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815–1963: Foreign heads of mission in Germany and German heads of mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . 2001, ISBN 9783110956849 , p. 377, online .