Johann Peter Joseph Werner

Johann Peter Joseph Werner (born December 12, 1798 in Koblenz ; † April 15, 1869 there ) was a German lawyer , politician and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Johann Peter Werner around 1860

Life

From 1814 to 1816 he worked as a secretary at the department head office in Koblenz, from 1815 to 1816 as secretary of the district committee for the right bank of the Moselle and from 1816 to 1717 as the second secretary of the district commissioner.

At the same time, in 1815 he began studying law at the École Spéciale de Droit in Koblenz, which graduated in 1817. From 1817 to 1818 he served as a volunteer. He then studied law in Bonn and Heidelberg from 1819 to 1822 . In Bonn he joined the Old Germania Bonn fraternity .

1822–23 he was an auscultator , 1823–26 trainee lawyer and 1826–69 as a lawyer at the district court in Koblenz. In 1831 he was appointed to the judiciary .

In the 1840s he became a member of the Koblenz Aid Association for the Central Cathedral Building Association in Cologne . From 1847 to 1869 Werner was a member of the Assembly of Representatives in Koblenz.

In the revolutionary year of 1848 he was the author of a petition that called for freedom of the press and the periodicity of the United State Parliament . The petition was sent to the Prussian king by the Koblenz city council. He was also captain of the vigilantes . He was sent to the Paulskirchenparliament for constituency 10, Rhineland ( Kaisersesch ) province . He was a member of the Württemberger Hof parliamentary groups and secretary of the priority committee. He was also a member of the Blum-Günther and Central Authority Committee .

In 1849 he became president of the assembly of the Rhenish municipal councils in Cologne, a member of the state committee of the people's associations in Baden and the provisional government.

In 1855 Werner became an honorary member of the General State Foundation to support veterans and disabled warriors . 1860–69 he was an alderman, from 1869 he was again a member of the Koblenz city council.

From 1865 to 1869 he was a high school board member in Koblenz.

literature

• Peter Kaupp : fraternity member in the Paulskirche. Brochure of the Society for Fraternity Research in History, 1999.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 273-274.