Karl Anton Maerker

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Karl Anton Maercker (formerly also Maerker ) (* May 24, 1803 in Aschersleben (?); † March 11, 1871 in Halberstadt ) was a Prussian lawyer and politician.

Maercker was the son of Heinrich Gottlieb Maercker, merchant and landowner in Aschersleben, and his wife Anna Catharina, nee. White. He studied law and then from 1826 was a trainee lawyer in Magdeburg . From 1830 he was Assessor first at the Superior Court in Berlin and later at the High Court in Kwidzyn. In 1832 he became a legal advisor at the City Court in Berlin. From 1835 Maercker was director of the city court of Insterburg . From 1839 also the regional court there. In 1842 he became director of the city and regional court in Calbe . In 1844 Maercker moved to the criminal court in Berlin and became its director in 1846. During the March Revolution he was Prussian Minister of Justice between June 25 and September 21, 1848 . Then he was President of the Court of Appeal in Halberstadt .

Maercker and his family have been drawn and painted in oil several times in pictorial representations by the painter Adolph Menzel , who was a friend of the family. Some of these pictures hang in the Kunsthalle Hamburg , the Museum Oskar Reinhart (Winterthur, Switzerland) and the Museum Georg Schäfer in Schweinfurt.

Maercker was married to Amalie Reich from Insterburg . His son Max Maercker (1842–1901), born in Calbe (Saale), was a well-known agricultural chemist.

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SURNAME Maerker, Karl Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maercker, Karl Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Aschersleben
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1871
Place of death Halberstadt