Karl Heinrich von Schwab

Karl Heinrich Schwab , von Schwab from 1818 , (* March 20, 1781 in Stuttgart ; † January 23, 1847 there ) was Minister of Justice and member of the Privy Council in the Kingdom of Württemberg .

ancestry

Schwab was born as the son of the Württemberg philosopher and Privy Councilor Johann Christoph Schwab . The mother Friederike geb. Rapp († 1831) came from a respected Stuttgart merchant family and was a niece of Johann Heinrich Dannecker . Schwab had four siblings, including two older sisters and a one year older brother who died at the age of 17. The significantly younger brother Gustav Schwab (1792–1850) belongs to the Swabian school of poets .

Career

Schwab attended the Hohe Karlsschule , the Latin school in Ludwigsburg and the Stuttgart grammar school . Since autumn 1798 he studied at Tübingen University Law . In 1802 he received his doctorate with the dissertation An et quatenus injuria circa judica evitari nequeat and then traveled to the university in Göttingen and the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia . There in Berlin he met several of his father's literary friends, including Friedrich Nicolai . He was also warmly received by Nicolai's opponent Johann Gottlieb Fichte , although Fichte's work had also been heavily criticized by Schwab's father. After that, on the recommendation of his father, Schwab became Hofmeister to Herr von Syburg in Switzerland near Lake Geneva . In the spring of 1805 he returned to Württemberg and initially became a law firm, and a little later became Prince Paul of Württemberg's private secretary . In February 1807 he joined the Württemberg civil service as a secretary at the senior judicial college. In September 1814 he was promoted to assessor and in November 1816 to the council at the Higher Justice College. In 1817 he came to the Ministry of Justice as senior tribunal adviser and chancellery director, and in 1819 was promoted to lecturing council. In October 1823 he was accepted as an extraordinary member of the Privy Council . In 1824 he was appointed director of the Royal Prison Commission and in 1829 he was promoted to the State Council.

Head of the Ministry of Justice

As president of the highest regional court, he was appointed privy councilor in autumn 1831 and, as the successor to his friend Eugen von Maucler, was entrusted with the provisional management of the Ministry of Justice. In 1838 and 1839 he represented the version of the penal code and the law on the consequences of crimes and punishments under private law before the Württemberg estates . On September 26, 1839 Schwab was released from the administration of the Justice Department, but remained a full member of the Privy Council until his death.

family

In 1805 Schwab married Marie Antoinette Goullet († 1830), the daughter of the Bavarian court counselor Johann Ludwig Goullet, who was the staff officer of the Grand Commander and Baillis Johann Baptist von Flachslanden in the imperial-direct Malteser-Kommende Dätzingen . The marriage resulted in four children, of whom a daughter and two sons reached adulthood. In 1832 Schwab married his second wife, Sophie Auguste Fallati († 1835), the daughter of a Hamburg merchant. This marriage remained childless.

Honors

• 1818 Knight's Order of Württembergischen crown , which with the personal needle tracks ( Nobilitierung was connected)
• 1830 Commentary Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown
• 1837 Grand Cross of the Order of Frederick

literature

• Swabian Kronik. No. 35, of February 3, 1847, p. 138 f.
• Eberhard von Georgii-Georgenau: Biographisch-Genealogische Blätter from and about Swabia. Verlag Emil Müller, Stuttgart 1878, p. 882 f.