Karl von Zyllnhardt (lawyer)

Karl Philipp August Otto Ludwig von Zyllnhardt (born August 30, 1779 in Ludwigsburg , † June 27, 1828 in Mauer ) was the Grand Ducal State Councilor of Baden , President of the Ministry of Justice and the Legislative Commission.

Life

He was the son of the Electoral Palatinate major of the same name, Karl von Zyllnhardt (forester) and Eleonore von Roman. After his mother's early death, he grew up with relatives of his mother in Ludwigsburg, before his father took him to his country estate in Mauer in 1787 and had a private teacher teach there. From 1796 he studied law at the nearby University of Heidelberg , from 1798 at the University of Göttingen . After his studies he was in 1800 intern at the Imperial Court in Wetzlar and entered 1801 on Palatine Hofgericht in Mannheim in the civil service.

With the reorganization of the German southwest and the dissolution of the Electoral Palatinate as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , he was accepted into the Baden state service and received a seat and vote in the Baden court. In 1807 he was appointed to the Foreign Office in Karlsruhe as a secret legation councilor . He changed posts several times and in 1808 was a secret councilor at the Ministry of the Interior. There he led investigations against the Baden opposition in 1808 and at the end of the year he was promoted to vice-president of the Mannheim court, of which he became president in 1814. In the course of the legal reorganization of the German states after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Zyllnhardt was on April 14, 1816 one of 26 aristocratic signatories of a controversial petition on the constitutional monarchy to the Baden Grand Duke Karl Friedrich , which resulted in his dismissal from civil service on May 4, 1816 led.

Zyllnhardt was then active in Vienna and Prague as the guardian of the Counts of Oberndorf in the division of inheritance of the Counts of Kollowrath, then he was briefly back in government service as the district president of the Landgraves of Hesse-Homburg . In 1818 he retired to his country estate in Mauer.

When Grand Duke Ludwig I came to power in Baden in 1818 , Zyllnhardt was called back to the Baden civil service, as a state councilor and member of the legislative commission. From 1819 to 1825 Zyllnhardt belonged to the I. Chamber of the Baden state estates . He was an advocate of the constitutional monarchy and the representative system . From 1821 on he was also a curator of the University of Heidelberg, and he was also one of the deputies at the General Synod of 1821, which led to the formation of the Evangelical Church in Baden . In 1823 he was given the ephorate of the Karlsruhe Lyceum by the Grand Duke.

In 1822 Zyllnhardt was promoted to President of the Ministry of Justice and the Baden Legislative Commission. Under his chairmanship, the basics of the Baden court and criminal procedure code were created.

From 1827 a serious illness made itself felt, due to which Zyllnhardt withdrew to his estate in the spring of 1828. On June 27, 1828 he succumbed to his suffering.

His first marriage was from 1804 to Sophie von Lichtenberg, who gave birth to a daughter in 1805 and died in 1823. In 1824 he married Karoline von Vorbeck; this second marriage remained childless. Zyllnhardt's property in Gauangelloch, Mauer and other places came to the Göler von Ravensburg at the wedding of his daughter .

literature

• Georg Freiherr von Weiler: Freiherr Karl von Zyllnhardt , in: Zeitgenossen: a biographical magazine for the history of our time, Volume 2 , Leipzig 1830, pp. 45–59.
• Zyllnhardt in New Nekrolog der Deutschen, 6th year, 2nd part, Ilmenau 1830.