Karl Ludwig Adolf Petersen
Karl Ludwig Adolf Petersen (born June 5, 1746 in Bergzabern , † January 20, 1827 in Landau ) was a German lawyer and politician.
Life
Petersen, a son of the Lutheran court preacher Georg Petersen (1708–1783), studied law and became an assessor at the Palatinate-Zweibrück Oberamt in Bergzabern and councilor at the Reichshofrat in Vienna. In the 1770 / 1780s he was a member of the Viennese Masonic lodges “To the Crowned Hope” and “To the Newly Crowned Hope”. Since 1792 he campaigned for the cession of the left bank of the Rhine to France and soon made a career under French rule. In 1796 he became a judge at the Cantonal Court in Speyer . In 1798 he moved to the central administration of the Département du Mont-Tonnerre . In 1800 he became sub-prefect in Kaiserslautern and in 1811 a member of the French Corps législatif in Paris.
literature
- Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities , Edenkoben 1995, p. 466
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petersen, Karl Ludwig Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1746 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Bergzabern |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1827 |
| Place of death | Landau in the Palatinate |