Johann Jacob von Zwierlein

Johann Jakob Zwierlein

Johann Jacob Freiherr von Zwierlein (born February 9, 1699 in Worms , † June 21, 1772 in Wetzlar ) was a German lawyer at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar.

family

Johann Jacob von Zwierlein married Dorothea Friederike nee von Wahl called Hubin von Gülchen. He is the founder of the noble family Zwierlein . His son, Christian Jacob Freiherr von Zwierlein , like his father, became a doctorate lawyer and procurator at the Imperial Court of Justice. His son Hans Carl von Zwierlein also became procurator with a doctorate in law and rose to become president of the Herrenbank of the Nassau estates.

Life

After attending grammar school in Wetzlar, Zwierlein first attended the University of Jena from 1717, where, in addition to law and political science, he also turned to history . He then went to the University of Halle to listen to lectures from Nikolaus Hieronymus Gundling and Justus Henning Böhmer, among others . For his licentiate in 1721 he went back to the University of Jena, where he received his doctorate in both rights shortly afterwards .

Zwierlein decided to work in the area of ​​the Reich Chamber Court in Wetzlar and was sworn in on February 19, 1723, first as a lawyer and then on July 27, 1730 as Procurator of the Reich Chamber Court. As a respected lawyer, he was appointed councilor and second agent by Kurhannover on August 12, 1735 and was given the power to conduct all state processes. On April 5, 1768, he took the place of the first agent. In 1744 he was appointed procurator for the house of the princes of Nassau-Dillenburg , and in 1755 he was appointed court councilor . As a successful lawyer, he had a large fortune, through which he acquired large estates.

Honors

Gravestone of Johann Jacob von Zwierlein at the church in Langsdorf near Lich

From the Princely House of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Zwierlein received an elevation to the Imperial Palatine Count , and from the Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg the appointment to the Real Privy Council . He was raised to hereditary nobility on February 24, 1752 by the emperor . In addition, a silver coin with a portrait and coat of arms was minted in his memory.

Works (selection)

• De favore ultimarum voluntatum , Jena 1721 (dissertation).
• De jure camerali commentatio systematica , Wetzlar 1741, (enlarged and commented 3rd edition of the work by Georg Melchior von Ludolf ).
• Concept of the chamber court order, which was improved by imperial and imperial orders in 1613, overlooked in the most careful way and increased with his and those specially printed Ludolff's comments , u. a. Frankfurt a. M. 1753.

literature

• Wilhelm Sauer:  Zwierlein, Freiherr Johann Jacob von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 535-537.
• Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1: Cornelia Rösner: The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. 59 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 16). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 , pp. 196–197.

Web links

• Consortium of European Research Libraries : Johann Jakob Zwierlein list of works