Karl Albert von Kamptz

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CA from Kamptz. Engraving by Meno Haas , around 1830

Karl Albert von Kamptz , also Carl Albert von Kamptz (born September 16, 1769 in Schwerin , † November 3, 1849 in Berlin ; full name: Karl Albert Christoph Heinrich von Kamptz or Karl Christoph Albert Heinrich von Kamptz ) was a German judge and Prussian Minister of Justice .

Life

Karl Albert von Kamptz was the eldest son of the later Mecklenburg-Strelitz Minister Albrecht von Kamptz (1741–1816) and his wife Louise Friederike Amalie, née. von Dorne (1751–1800), daughter of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin law firm director Heinrich von Dorne († 1752). He grew up with five younger siblings. Three of his brothers later worked in the Mecklenburg court or administrative service.

Kamptz studied from October 1787 law , first at the Frederick University Bützow , then from 1788 to 1790 at the Georg-August University of Goettingen . On March 24, 1790 he became an assessor at the law firm in Neustrelitz . After his time as an assessor, he was appointed head of the school commission and consultant in the secret council and government college in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In 1794 he took his leave from the Mecklenburg civil service. At the Mecklenburg state parliament on November 19, 1798 he was elected as a full assessor of the court and regional court in Güstrow . To this end, he was appointed assessor at the Wismar Tribunal on February 27, 1802 by the Swedish-Pomeranian knighthood . On September 2, 1804 , the Prussian court presented him, with the appointment of chamberlain , to the assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar, due to the Kurbrandenburg . On March 27, 1805, after passing the exam, he was appointed a member of the highest court of justice of the Old Reich - the last appointment of a member before the repeal of the Reich Chamber Court in 1806 in the course of the dissolution of the German Reich constitution.

He turned down an appointment as vice-president of the Württemberg Supreme Judicial College in Stuttgart . He stayed in Wetzlar as a pensioner until 1809 and participated in the court's liquidation business. For him, this also included a violent and public dispute with the former procurator Philipp Jacob von Gülich , who had been accepted into the Mecklenburg judicial service. In 1809 he returned to Neustrelitz. The following year, as the Prussian chamberlain, he escorted the corpse of Queen Luise to Prussia and in 1811 found a job at the Berlin Chamber Court , where he worked as a member of the Upper Appellation Senate. His further career led Kamptz to the office of the chief director of the police ministry (1817) and first director in the justice ministry (1825) up to the appointment as real secret state and justice minister in 1832. In addition to his office as police director in the interior ministry, he was also head from 1822 the teaching department in the Ministry of Culture. In 1829 the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt accepted Kamptz as a member and in 1829 elected him as its president. As such, Kamptz succeeded Count Dorotheus Ludwig von Keller . In 1848 Kamptz resigned from this office.

All his life, Kamptz was very conservative, which earned him the name of "liberal eater" in the press. The writer ETA Hoffmann caricatured Kamptz in his work Meister Floh as a “police sniffer Knarrpanti”. Kamptz particularly excelled in pursuing the "Jacobean" activities and the book burning at the Wartburg Festival in 1817 in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . Alongside Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich , he was one of the toughest opponents and persecutors of the freedom of the press issued there in 1816 under Grand Duke Carl August . Not only in literature, but also in the contemporary liberal press, Kamptz met fierce opposition. In 1818 Friedrich Förster argued clearly against Kamptz in the magazine Nemesis as a result of the Wartburg Festival. The stumbling block is the position paper published by Kamptz in the yearbooks of Prussian legislation , "Discussion, as he calls it, 'on the public burning of pamphlets'." Kamptz, who obviously also made his Codex Gensd' armerie feels “personally offended” , attacks the event on the Wartburg in his essay and argues (not only legally) in favor of prosecuting and punishing such acts. Kamptz believes that "the theoretical state carpenters are just as harmful to the state as the political professors are to the sciences," Förster quotes him, and with reference to the Spanish Inquisition [!] He demands "that they [the burning] for all, especially faithless and shameful crimes, e.g. B. should be introduced for the works of public teachers and histrions [sic!], Who have been employed by the state to educate the young citizens into loyal citizens and useful public servants, but do not fulfill this provision, but give them the poison of their demagogic principles at an early stage breathe in! ” These words are clearly aimed against the political professors in Jena, specifically against the“ Histrion ” Luden , one of the most important“ spiritus rectores ”of the Jena fraternity . In addition to Förster's polemical correction that 'Histriones' were actors in Rome "who appeared in the oldest antics of the Romans, Satyra and Mimus" and not historians, as Kamptz uses it, he comments on the Prussian demand: "He likes that, building stakes, heretical works and throwing the heretics into the flames".

Nonetheless, Kamptz condemns the burning of “permitted” writings as “iniuria”. Förster replies to the lawyer Kamptz: "The author does not seem to know what iniurie, nor what rough iniurie is, nor which iniuria are punished by official means, otherwise he would certainly immediately instruct the Grand Ducal Weimar court authorities of their office."

In the Berlin tailor revolution of 1830, it was less the king than, as the historian Ilja Mieck writes, that the reactionary clique around Wittgenstein and Kamptz was held responsible for the failure to keep the royal constitutional promises. In 1838 Kamptz was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

family

Karl Albert von Kamptz had Hedwig Susanna Luzia, born on December 30, 1802 in Prützen . von Bülow (* May 25, 1783; † August 13, 1847), married, a daughter of Drosten Friedrich Christian von Bülow auf Prützen, Hägerfelde, Mühlengeez and Critzow, and Hedwig Heilwig, née. von Behr from Nustrow . The couple had four children: Hedwig Louise Friderika Albertine (1803–1868), first married to the Pomeranian President Wilhelm von Bonin (1786–1852), her second marriage to General Otto von Bonin (1795–1862); Friedrich Albert Carl Anton (1805–1833), Heilwig Maria Sophia Florina (1806–1807) and (Albert) Ludwig (Florus Hans) (1810–1884).

On the basis of various indications, family researchers believe it is possible that Kamptz was the biological father of the prehistorian, archivist and curator Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch .

Fonts

  • Attempt of a topography of the grand ducal residence city Neustrelitz. 1st edition: Neubrandenburg 1792. 2nd, increased edition: Neustrelitz / Neubrandenburg 1833.

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Albert von Kamptz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Karl Christoph Albert Heinrich von Kamptz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ (source for the section) Friedrich Förster: Comments against the alleged legal discussion of Herr von Kamptz, about the public burning of pamphlets . In: Nemesis . Journal of Politics and History . tape 11/3 , p. 315-350 .
  3. ↑ Ilja Mieck : From the reform period to the revolution (1806-1847) . In: Wolfgang Ribbe (ed.): History of Berlin, first volume . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1987, p. 528. ISBN 3-406-31591-7 .
  4. ^ Member entry by Karl Albertus Christoph von Kamptz at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 18, 2016.
  5. ↑ Cf. Friedrich Schmidt-Sibeth: The Secret Archives Councilor Dr. Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch and his first wife. In: Mecklenburg 37, pp. 4-6; also in: Genealogie 45 (1996) 28, p. 32.
  6. ^ Commented reprint in: Neue Schriftenreihe des Karbe-Wagner-Archiv Neustrelitz , vol. 6. Thomas Helms Verlag , Schwerin 2008. pp. 8–62.
personal data
SURNAME Kamptz, Karl Albert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kamptz, Carl Albert von; Kamptz, Karl Albert Christoph Heinrich von (full name); Kamptz, Karl Christoph Albert Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge; Prussian Minister of State and Justice
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1849
Place of death Berlin