Justus Christoph Leist

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Justus Christoph Leist (born March 24, 1770 in Rethem ; † April 30, 1858 in Celle ) was a German constitutional lawyer and politician.

Life

Leist studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1789 and graduated with a doctorate in law. iur. 1792 from. After perfecting his knowledge at the Imperial Court of Justice in Vienna , he became associate professor in Göttingen in 1795 , and in 1802 he was appointed full professor there. His textbook on German constitutional law had to be taken out of print and rewritten in 1803 due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss closing. It was therefore very topical when it appeared. Although he was still court advisor in 1805 , he entered the service of the government of the Kingdom of Westphalia in Kassel at the beginning of the French era .

Leist represented the changes in the legal framework as a member of the State Council of the new kingdom, also before the imperial estates of Westphalia. In 1809 he succeeded Johannes von Müller as director of public education in the Kingdom of Westphalia under King Jérôme . On the one hand, he had to take care of the liquidation of the universities in Rinteln and Helmstedt , but on the other hand, he promoted the latter particularly among the universities of Halle (Saale), Marburg an der Lahn and Göttingen, which he continued to oversee. He pursued the existing student associations at the universities in the form of country teams , and in Göttingen the result was the gendarme affair in September 1809 . Jérôme raised him to the rank of baron and this career was clearly felt after the Wars of Liberation .

Leist was initially employed as a monastery administrator in Ilfeld am Harz in Hanover . However, as early as 1817, his knowledge of constitutional and canonical law led to his diplomatic use as a legation councilor in the context of negotiations by a delegation to conclude the Concordat with the Catholic Church. After this travel companion to Rome, he first returned to Ilfeld in 1819, until he was promoted to Stade in 1829.

Leist experienced a second high rise in his career as an advisor to King Ernst August I of Hanover in the course of the constitutional conflict in 1837. Ernst August I received expert advice from Leist on the question of the repeal of the constitution. For Ernst August I, Leist also represented the re-entry into force of the constitution of the Kingdom of 1819, for example before the Bundestag of the German Confederation. He also became a member of the State Council of the Kingdom of Hanover. In 1839, Leist became Vice President of the Higher Appeal Court in Celle . In 1855 he also became President of the State Court of the Kingdom of Hanover.

Leist was married to a sister of the Justice Minister of the Kingdom of Hanover Ernst August Rumann , daughter of the chief magistrate to Calenberg , Johann Levin Christoph Rumann (1705–1774).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Arthur Kleinschmidt : History of the Kingdom of Westphalen , Gotha 1894, p. 331ff.
  2. ↑ Adolf Baring : The Baring family, especially the Hanoverian line, with 22 illustrations and a coat of arms in: German Roland Book for Gender Studies , published by the "Roland" Association for the Promotion of Stamm-, Wappen- und Siegelkunde EV, 1st volume, Dresden 1918 , P. 194f .: Rumann trunk line.
personal data
SURNAME Leist, Justus Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German constitutional lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Rethem
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1858
Place of death Celle