Ludwig Simons

Ludwig (or Louis) Benjamin Simons (born December 13, 1803 in Elberfeld (today a district of Wuppertal ), † July 19, 1870 in Elberfeld) was a Prussian lawyer and politician.

Live and act

Between 1822 and 1825 Simons studied law in Bonn and Berlin . He then worked first at the appellate court in Cologne and later at the regional court in Düsseldorf . From 1832 he was procurator ( public prosecutor ) in Düsseldorf and from 1835 in Elberfeld. Between 1841 and 1847 Simons served as the third general advocate ( attorney general ) in Cologne. With the title of a secret judiciary , he was a lecturer in the Prussian Ministry of Justice between 1847 and 1849 .

At the same time he was a member of the Prussian National Assembly in 1848 . As such, he belonged to the right and represented moderately liberal to conservative views. Between 1849 and 1860 Simons was the Prussian Minister of Justice and a member of the State Council. In addition, Simons was a member of the first chamber of the Prussian state parliament between 1849 and 1852 . Later he belonged to the manor house . Between 1852 and 1854 he was also a member of the second chamber. Since 1854 he had the title of Crown Syndicate . After the end of his tenure as Minister of Justice , he lived as a privateer. He was a knight of the Red Eagle Order 1st class and the Hohenzollern House Order . On February 13, 1837, he married Charlotte Meckel in Elberfeld, with whom he had eight children.

literature

• Michael Hettinger (ed.): Eyewitness reports of the German revolution 1848/49: A Prussian judge as a champion of democracy . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-12756-0 , p. 351.
• Klaus Herdepe : The Prussian Constitutional Question 1848 . Neuried 2002, p. 156f.
• Max Simons: Family Tables Simons . Elberfeld in December 1889, printed by Sam. Lucas in Elberfeld

Web links

• Acta Borussica Vol. 4 / II.