List of members of the Coburg state parliament (4th electoral period)
This list names the members of the Coburg state parliament in its 4th electoral period (1839–1843).
background
The fourth state parliament was elected in 1839 and opened on December 25, 1839. It consisted of eleven members. On March 3, 1843, the state parliament was prematurely dissolved.
The election period was marked by the resignation of many MPs. This was a consequence of the theater dispute , which had also led to the early dissolution of the third state parliament.
In June 1827, Duke Ernst I had his own permanent court theater, the ducal Saxon court theater in Coburg, and was striving to build a separate theater building for this ensemble. The cost was put at 40,000 guilders , an amount that was unsustainable for the heavily indebted duchy (the national debt totaled 1.6 million guilders in 1844 for both partial duchies). The Duke initially relied on voluntary donations. After these were not received in the necessary amount, state funds had to be used, for which the state parliament had the right to budget . Funds from the state parliament were used for the renovation of Ehrenburg Palacehad approved. Even more serious than this misappropriation was the sale of the orphanage. The orphanage site was needed for the construction of the theater , but was owned by the orphanage fund. The 18 orphanage children were housed with families (at the expense of the orphanage fund), and the orphanage was sold to the ducal chamber for 8,000 guilders, well below its value. Then the orphanage fund was dissolved and the state debt repayment fund had to assume 14,563 guilders of the fund's debts. According to the constitution, the state parliament should have been heard about this expropriation of the fund.
State Parliament Director Haubold von Speßhardt and State Parliament Secretary David Sartorius (who were aware of this as members of the Upper Tax Commission) brought a complaint from the State Parliament to the Duke. However, the notice of appeal of May 20, 1838 was not answered. Instead, the duke dissolved the state parliament on July 1, 1839.
In the following state elections Speßhardt and Sartorius (as well as Johann Stegner , who had signed the complaint) were clearly re-elected, but the duke did not recognize the election. As a result, other elected members resigned and parliament refused in the context of the Verification the validity of the election to determine. Nor was a standing committee elected. On November 2, 1840, the state parliament again asked the government for an answer to the complaint and on November 24, 1840 received the laconic answer that the matter was settled.
List of MPs
| Curia | area | Surname |
|---|---|---|
| Manor owner | Duchy of Coburg | Forester and Chamberlain Eduard von Donop (resigned on February 21, 1840) |
| Manor owner | Duchy of Coburg | Chamberlain and Captain Otto von Steinau (resigned on October 2, 1841) |
| Manor owner | Duchy of Coburg | Forester a. D. Theodor von Wasmer |
| Manor owner | Duchy of Coburg | Businessman Oskar Nistler (refused to join the state parliament, but was still listed as a member of parliament) |
| magistrate | Coburg | City judge Ferdinand Scheler (resigned April 6, 1840) |
| magistrate | Coburg | City Chamber Councilor Christoph Friedrich Christian Keyßler (from 1840) |
| Citizenship | Coburg | Court advocate Ludwig Pertsch (stayed away from the meetings and died on May 3, 1842) |
| Citizenship | Coburg | Moriz Adolph Briegleb (from 1842) |
| District | Coburg | Lieutenant Friedrich Sartorius (resigned on January 9, 1843) |
| District | Coburg | Merchant and landowner Johann Georg Appel (from 1843) |
| District | Neustadt | Court advocate Georg Christoph Eichhorn (resigned October 2, 1841) |
| District | Neustadt | Mayor Gustav Lorenz Köhler (from 1841) |
| District | Rodach | Mayor Melchior Leonhardt Schmidt |
| District | Sun field | Mayor Johann Georg Baudler (resigned on March 2, 1840) |
| District | Sun field | Innkeeper Johann Georg Bauersachs (from 1840, no entry into the state parliament) |
| District | Koenigsberg | Mayor Bernhard Holzheid |
literature
- Detlef Sandern: Parliamentarism in Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1821/26 - 1849/52. In: Writings on the history of parliamentarism in Thuringia. Issue 7, ISBN 3-86160-507-4 , pp. 173-174.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detlef Sandern: Parliamentarism in Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha 1821/26 - 1849/52. , Pp. 75-77.
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