Karl von Waechter-Spittler

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Karl Eberhard Wächter , Baron von Waechter-Spittler since 1841 (born April 26, 1798 in Gochsheim , † June 21, 1874 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer, civil servant and minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg .

ancestry

Karl Wächter came from an old Württemberg civil servant family. He was the son of the chief bailiff in Gochsheim, Johann Friedrich von Wächter (1767-1840), and Klüpfel, born by his wife Elisabeth Caroline Sophie . Most recently, Karl Wachter's father was senior tribunal councilor in Stuttgart. Karl Wächter's paternal grandparents were the Württemberg court and finance councilor Johann Eberhard von Wächter (1735–1807) and his wife Maria Regina Sigel (1733–1798). Karl Wächter was a nephew of the Württemberg Interior Minister Karl Eberhard von Wächter and a cousin of the university professor and politician Karl Georg von Wächter .

Life

During his studies he became a fraternity in Tübingen in 1816 , so he belonged to the old Tübingen fraternity Arminia since 1816 and of the Germania Tübingen fraternity from 1818 . After completing his law studies in Tübingen , Wächter joined the Württemberg judicial service and quickly went through several stages of his judicial career. For a while he was Professor of Law at the University of Tübingen, and from 1829 he was a lecturer in the Ministry of Justice. From 1827 to 1837 he worked on the publication of the collected works of his father-in-law, the historian Ludwig von Spittler . On October 9, 1841, King Wilhelm I raised Wächter to hereditary barons with the addition of the name of his father-in-law Spittler . By owning the Horn manor in the Württemberg Danube district , which he acquired in 1844, the family belongs to the knightly aristocracy of Württemberg.

From 1832 to 1849 Waechter-Spittler was a member of the Privy Council . In addition, on December 10, 1846, he was appointed a member of the Bar Association for life. In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . When the March Ministry was replaced by a Schlayer official ministry in October 1849 , Waechter-Spittler took over the position of head of the cult department and at the same time provisionally the department of family affairs of the royal house and foreign affairs. In the latter position, on September 30, 1849, he signed the accession of the Württemberg government to the Vienna Treaty between Austria and Prussia on the establishment of a provisional Federal Central Commission and the Munich Agreement between Bavaria , Saxony , Hanover and Württemberg of February 27, 1850 on basic features for a new one German constitution (so-called four - king alliance ).

Since the approval of the estates for these agreements had not been obtained, the Second State Assembly, which was then in place of the regular Chamber of Deputies, decided on June 27, 1850, to bring charges against Waechter-Spittler. The indictment related to the violation of § 85 of the constitutional charter of 1819, because according to the mentioned paragraph contracts with foreign powers require the approval of the estates. According to § 3 of the constitutional document, however, this was not necessary for contracts within the federal government. The legal dispute essentially revolved around the question of whether the German Confederation still existed rightly at the time those contracts were signed. The State Court of Justice dismissed the action brought against both contracts as unfounded. A few days after the indictment was brought on July 2, 1850, Waechter-Spittler and his ministerial colleagues resigned from their offices, but on September 23 of the same year King Wilhelm put him back at the head of the cult department. In this position, Waechter-Spittler introduced a law on emergency civil marriage (from May 1, 1855), which was adopted by the Chamber.

During his term of office, the introduction of parish councils as community representatives and the holding of diocesan synods (ordinances of Jan. 25, 1851 and Nov. 18, 1854) in the Württemberg Protestant Church . From 1850 to 1852 he was also director of the Evangelical Consistory. Waechter-Spittler countered the demands of the Catholic bishops, as they were laid down in the memorandum of the Upper Rhine episcopate of March 1, 1851. When the agreement between the Württemberg government and the Bishop of Rottenburg in January 1854 was not confirmed by the curia, the Württemberg government contacted Rome directly. Before the negotiations in the Convention of April 8, 1857 came to a conclusion as a Concordat, Waechter-Spittler changed from the Ministry of Culture to the head of the Ministry of Justice on April 7, 1856.

Here he promoted efforts to create a common German judicial legislation. More important reforms in the area of ​​the Württemberg judiciary legislation, such as the reorganization of the court system and a new code of criminal procedure, which he tried to introduce, could only be implemented later. When the Linden Ministry was replaced by the Varnbuler Ministry on October 4, 1864 - shortly after King Charles's accession to the throne - Waechter-Spittler resigned from the ministerial office. On October 19, 1867, due to illness, he resigned from any further work in the Chamber of Notaries and resigned from his seat.

family

Karl von Waechter-Spittler was married twice. His first wife Luise Freiin von Spittler (* July 22, 1801, † February 1, 1848) was the daughter of the Privy Council and State Minister Ludwig Freiherr von Spittler (* 1752; † 1810). From the first marriage in 1822 came the government councilor Carl Felix Freiherr von Waechter-Spittler (born September 19, 1829, † December 17, 1861), the father of the later district court director and member of the state parliament, Felix Freiherr von Waechter-Spittler . After the death of his first wife, Karl von Waechter-Spittler married Luise Freiin von Gemmingen-Guttenberg-Bonfeld (* 1821), a daughter of Philipp Albrecht von Gemmingen, in 1851 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fraternity leaves . XIV., Berlin 1900, p. 281.
  2. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
  3. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1866, p. 32
predecessor Office successor
Karl von Roser Head of the Württemberg Ministry (Department) of Foreign Affairs
1849–1850 		Joseph von Linden
personal data
SURNAME Waechter-Spittler, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waechter-Spittler, Karl Eberhard von; Wächter, Karl Eberhard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, civil servant and minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Gochsheim
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1874
Place of death Stuttgart