Karl von Wangenheim

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German administrative officer, see Carl von Wangenheim .

Karl Heinrich Ludwig Freiherr von Wangenheim (born October 29, 1797 in Potsdam , † August 28, 1853 at Gut Neu-Lobitz in the Dramburg district , Pomerania ) was a German judge and politician.

Life

Born as the son of Major Friedrich August von Wangenheim (1754–1806, killed in the Battle of Auerstedt ), Wangenheim attended the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium in Berlin . He took part in the Wars of Liberation as a volunteer . He studied law from 1816 to 1819 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , where he was a member of the Landsmannschaft Marchia . As their senior , he took part in the Wartburg Festival in 1817 , where he was actively involved in the so-called book burning . As a result, in 1817 he drafted a basic program for the Berlin Burschenschaft ( Principles of a Burschenschaft. ) And was elected as one of its heads when the Old Berlin Burschenschaft was founded , and in autumn 1818 as its second spokesman. Together with Ludwig Jonas and Ludwig Christ , he went to the Burschentag in Jena in October 1818 as a representative of the Berlin fraternity , on which the Berlin fraternity was elected chairman. Although he in 1818 with several fellow sheep Tern dueled , he later became a staunch opponent of the duel. In 1819 he was elected to the whole constitutional committee. In 1819 he was a one-year volunteer and sergeant in the Guard Rifle Battalion . In July 1819 a house search was carried out near Wangenheim, as there was a suspicion that he had participated in "demagogic activities" and was head of the fraternity. He confessed and defended his membership in an interrogation in 1819 and was arrested in 1820. After a complaint with Karl August von Hardenberg , he was released without charge and relegated . He remained under police surveillance, but was able to take the first legal exam. In 1820 he came to the Stettin Higher Regional Court as an auscultator . Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein stood up for him in 1821, so that his fraternity past no longer prevented his career. After the second and third legal examinations, he became assessor at the Königsberg Higher Regional Court in 1827 . In 1830 he was in the college of the Higher Regional Court of Stettin, where he became a member of the Higher Regional Court in 1833 and a member of the Upper Guardianship Court . In 1834 he came to the district judicial commission for Saatzig . In 1842 he went to the College of the Higher Regional Court Glogau, in 1843 the Higher Regional Court of Posen . In 1844 he became a member of the chamber judge at the chamber court . In 1849/50 he finished his civil service.

Wangenheim was active as a writer. In 1843 he initiated a call for donations for Friedrich Ludwig Jahn so that he could build himself a house in Freyburg (Unstrut) . In 1848 he was a member of the Prussian National Assembly and was involved in the development of a new constitutional Prussian constitution. Marriage and inheritance had made him wealthy, so that he could spend his retirement years as a Pomeranian landowner (Herr auf Rahnwerder, Klein-Spiegel, Wendelsdorf and Neu-Lobitz). He was the father of Ernst Freiherr von Wangenheim .

Honors

• Red Eagle Order 4th Class (1840)

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 211-212.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 5/102