Karl Kirchgeßner

"Advokat Kirchgeßner, President of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies" ( Illustrirte Zeitung , June 17, 1848)

Karl Kirchgeßner (born July 14, 1807 in Würzburg , † September 13, 1858 ibid) was royal lawyer in Würzburg and president of the Chamber of Deputies .

Life

Karl Kirchgeßner attended the Royal High School in Würzburg, studied law in Würzburg from 1824 to 1828 and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . From 1838 he worked as a lawyer in Würzburg.

Political activities

In 1845 Karl Kirchgeßner was elected to the state parliament and to the legislative committee of the Chamber of Deputies. He represented moderate liberal positions and was an advocate of the constitutional monarchy: “I have no doubt that my conviction will also be that of my constituents, that the German people with a free-thinking imperial constitution will be better served with a constitutional monarchy than with the republic of which I do not suspect nothing of good in the current turbulent time. "

Kirchgeßner represented the Bavarian government in the Committee of Seventeen of the German Bundestag between the beginning of March and the beginning of April 1848 .

From June 1, 1848 to June 6, 1849 Kirchgeßner was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for Weiler - Lindau . Between January 3 and April 13, 1849, he was 2nd Vice President of the Frankfurt National Assembly. In Frankfurt he belonged to the Württemberger Hof .

Kirchgeßner was a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies from 1845 to 1856 . There he was first secretary from September 22, 1847, second president from March 18, 1848 and first president of the Chamber of Deputies from March 26, 1848.

literature

Peter Fassl: The revolution of 1848 in Bavarian Swabia. Documentation of the traveling exhibition of the homeland maintenance of the Swabian district . District of Swabia, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-9802516-9-1 , p. 38.

Web links

Commons : Karl Kirchgeßner - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Database of the members of the Prussian National Assembly, BIORAB-Frankfurt (the exact data set must be determined using the search function)

Karl Kirchgeßner in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

^ Annual report from the Royal High School in Würzburg. Nitribitt, Würzburg 1815, p. 30 ( digitized in the Google book search).
↑ Dirk Götschmann : Würzburg 1814–1869. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), pp. 25–57 and 1249–1253; here: p. 53 f.
↑ Kemptner Zeitung, No. 180, June 28, 1848, quoted from HDBG

personal data
SURNAME	Kirchgeßner, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kirchgessner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bavarian State Parliament President
DATE OF BIRTH	July 14, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH	September 13, 1858
Place of death	Wurzburg

[1] Annual report from the Royal High School in Würzburg. Nitribitt, Würzburg 1815, p. 30 ( digitized in the Google book search).

[2] Dirk Götschmann : Würzburg 1814–1869. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), pp. 25–57 and 1249–1253; here: p. 53 f.

[3] Kemptner Zeitung, No. 180, June 28, 1848, quoted from HDBG