Johann Hermann Detmold

Johann Hermann Detmold (* July 24, 1807 in Hanover ; † March 17, 1856 ibid) was a German lawyer , politician in the German National Assembly , draftsman and writer . From May to December 1849 he was a Reich Justice Minister of the German central authority .

Johann Hermann Detmold - lithograph by Julius Giere (1836)

Life

Johann Hermann Detmold grew up near the Clemenskirche , in the still independent Calenberger Neustadt near Hanover. His maternal ancestors included the bankers of the Oppenheimer family in Hanover; his father was the Jewish doctor Georg Heinrich Detmold (1771–1842). His family converted to Christianity in 1815 when they were baptized in the Protestant Church in Neustadt . After school on Ratsgymnasium and graduating from school studied Detmold at the Universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg Law and settled in 1830 in Hannover as a lawyer. During his studies he became a member of the Old Göttingen Burschenschaft in 1827 and of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft in 1828 .

In addition to his job, Detmold occupied himself with art studies. In 1832 he founded the Kunstverein Hannover with Bernhard Hausmann and became its deputy secretary. In 1833 he wrote a “guide to art connoisseurship” (Hanover 1833, 2nd edition 1845), a local joke full of sharp satire.

In 1835 and 1836 Detmold, together with Georg Osterwald , published the Hannoversche Kunstblätter , which the Kunstverein Hannover published for exhibitions. He was also interested in poetry and was friends with Heinrich Heine .

Detmold stayed in Paris in 1836/37, but returned prematurely because of the repeal of the constitution by King Ernst August I. In 1838 Detmold became a deputy of the city of Hann. Münden chosen. He took part in the passive resistance against the new constitution, in close cooperation with Johann Andreas Wehner , both in the chamber and in newspaper correspondence and private letters, was therefore persecuted by the government and sentenced in 1843 to imprisonment and a fine. At that time he published the - delicately satirical - "marginal drawings" (Braunschweig 1843).

Obeying conservative principles, he firmly opposed the revolutionary movements of 1848; Elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly in May 1848 in Osnabrückschen , he joined the extreme right (parliamentary group: Café Milani ). Although he was a member of the constitutional committee , he opposed the fundamental rights and the Frankfurt constitution . In his opinion, a constitution could only be agreed with the individual states . He made many opponents through the satire "Deeds and opinions of Mr. Piepmeyer" (Frankfurt / Main 1849).

On the question of who should make the head of state under the new constitution , he opposed the proposal of the Prussian Empire. Therefore, he was also moving, following the rejection of the imperial crown by Frederick William IV. And the resignation of Heinrich von Gagern to by Regent enter formed new total Reich Ministry that Austria should allow a return to the old conditions. He took over the justice portfolio, soon afterwards, after Graevell's resignation, also that of the interior, and withstood all attempts to persuade the entire Reich Ministry, and with it the Reich Administrator , to resign until the Reich Administrator on December 21, 1849 even handed over power to the Federal Central Commission.

Detmold went back to Hanover and was soon afterwards appointed by the king as Hanoverian plenipotentiary to the Federal Central Commission, and later as envoy to the Bundestag. In this position he worked to make federal law the starting point for the order of German relations again.

Retrieved from his post in Frankfurt by the Münchhausen Ministry , Detmold returned to Hanover in July 1851, where he died on March 17, 1856.

Detmold had been married to Sophie von Guaita from Frankfurt , the daughter of Georg Friedrich von Guaita , since 1850 . Their son Georg (1850–1917) was born in the same year .

Awards

• 1850: Guelph order fourth class
• around 1850: Commander's Cross of the Austrian-Imperial Leopold Order

Works

• The art of becoming an art connoisseur in three hours (instructions for art connoisseurship or art to become a connoisseur in three hours and other satires) , Hahn, Hannover 1833, 2nd edition 1845.
• with Georg Osterwald (ed.): Hannoversche Kunstblätter , 1835 and 1836.
• Letters about the Paris Salon. In: Cotta'sches Morgenblatt, May to July 1837.
• with Johann Carl Bertram Stüve : Hannoversches Portfolio. Collection of files on the history of the Hanoverian constitutional struggle , 4 vols., Krabbe, 1838–1841.
• Marginal drawings , Braunschweig 1843.
• The dead aunt , Roman, Hanover 1845.
• Acts and opinions of Mr. Piepmeyer, member of the constituent National Assembly in Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt am Main: Jügel, 1848–1849. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Gustav Stüve (Ed.): Correspondence between Stüve and Detmold in the years 1848–1850. In: Sources and presentation on the history of Lower Saxony, Vol. 13, Hahn, Hanover / Leipzig 1903.

literature

• Ferdinand Frensdorff:  Detmold, Johann Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 82-88.
• Bernhard Mühlhan:  Detmold, Johann Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 619 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Johann Hermann Detmold . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 4, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 728.
• Helmut Zimmermann : Johann Hermann Detmold , in: Life and Fate. For the inauguration of the synagogue in Hanover , with photos by Hermann Friedrich a. a., Ed .: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Presseamt, in cooperation with the Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover eV, Hannover: [Beeck in commission], [1963], pp. 64–70
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 196 f.
• Hugo Thielen: Detmold, Johann Hermann. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 93 f.
• Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) A. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 124.
• Florian Vaßen: Parliamentary scenery and movement image - Johann Hermann Detmolds and Adolf Schrödter's image satire, deeds and opinions of MP Piepmeyer. In: Politics, Portrait, Physiology. Facets of European caricature in the pre- and post-march. Edited by Hubertus Fischer. Bielefeld 2010, pp. 135–198.
• Yannik Behme: Epilogue. In: marginal drawings. From the lawyer Detmold in Hanover. Edited by Yannik Behme with an afterword. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2013 (= Edition Wehrhahn, 4), pp. 79–85.

swell

1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 196.
2. ^ Peter Kaupp: Burschenschafter in der Paulskirche, brochure of the Society for Burschenschaftliche Geschichtsforschung, 1999.
3. ↑ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): Stadtlexikon Hannover: From the beginnings to the present , ( ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 ) Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, p. 490.
4. ^ Hugo Thielen : Hannoversche Kunstblätter. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 260.
5. ↑ Members by parliamentary group ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Federal Archives.  

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Hermann Detmold  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Johann Hermann Detmold in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Johann Hermann Detmold in the Gutenberg-DE project