Johannes Hassenpflug

Johannes Hassenpflug (born August 9, 1755 in Dorheim ; † July 9, 1834 in Kassel ) was an administrative officer from the Hassenpflug family in Hesse-Kassel .

Life

Signature of Johannes Hassenpflug

(Born September 28, 1767 in Hanau, † December 19, 1840 in Kassel) Hassenpflug was in 1788 married to Marie Magdalena Dresen, consisting of an in Hanau -based Huguenot emigrant family came. The marriage produced five children, including four daughters Marie, Maria Susanna, Johanna and Amalie. Famous was the only son, the future Hessian Interior and Justice Minister Louis Hassenpflug (1794-1862), the 1822 Charlotte Grimm , the sister of the brothers Grimm , married. The daughter Amalie Hassenpflug (1800–1871) became known to posterity as the friend of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , the daughter Marie Hassenpflug as contributor to the collection of children's and house fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm.

Johannes Hassenpflug was highly conservative and a staunch opponent of the French Revolution . As a lawyer, he first became a lawyer, then from 1787 worked in the service of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel . Here he initially held various offices in the county of Hanau , was head of the Altenhaßlau office and in 1789 became mayor of Hanau Neustadt. He is named as a member of the Hanau Freemason Lodge, Wilhelmine Caroline , founded in 1778 .

After nine years he was appointed advocatus Fisci (state representative in civil law disputes) in the state capital Kassel in 1798, and from 1802 he was a councilor there. During the Westphalian period he was a judge at the appellate court. In 1815/16 he became state commissioner at the constituent state parliament and in 1821 government director in Kassel. He ended his career as District President (since 1831) of Kassel.

literature

• Ewald Grothe (Ed.): Brothers Grimm. Correspondence with Ludwig Hassenpflug (including the correspondence between Ludwig Hassenpflug and Dorothea Grimm, née Wild, Charlotte Hassenpflug, née Grimm, their children and Amalie Hassenpflug). Kassel / Berlin 2000 (= Brothers Grimm. Works and correspondence. Kassel edition. Letters , 2).
• Klaus Hassenpflug (Ed.): Ludwig Hassenpflug. Memories of the youth 1794 to 1821. With the collaboration of Ewald Grothe and Bernhard Lauer , Kassel 2010 (= sources on the Brothers Grimm research , 4).
• Winfried Speitkamp : Restoration as Transformation. Studies on the constitutional history of the Electorate of Hesse 1813-1830 , Darmstadt / Marburg 1986 (= sources and research on Hessian history , 67).

Web links

• Hassenpflug, Johannes. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Theodor Ruf: The beauty from the glass coffin - Snow White's fairytale and real life , Königshausen & Neumann, 1995, ISBN 3-88479-967-3 , p. 19.
2. ^ History of Freemasonry i. O. Hanau a. Main. Festschrift of the [Lodge] Braunfels on perseverance for the 25th anniversary. 1872-1897. (Print by G. Heydt.), Hanau 1897, p. 15 .
3. ↑ HR-Online, fairy tales for discarded trousers - The Grimm's fairy tale contributions ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 7, 2010.