Martin Mohr

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Johannes Martin Mohr (born June 6, 1788 in Warmsroth ; † May 7, 1865 in Ingelheim ) was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and President of the Hessian state parliament .

family

Martin Mohr was the son of the clerk and farmer Johann Martin Mohr and his wife Maria Anna née Groffy. Martin Mohr, who was a Catholic denomination, married Mathilde nee Meyer (1803–1875).

Life

Mohr's tomb in the cemetery of the Ober-Ingelheim castle church

Mohr grew up in simple, rural circumstances on the Hunsrück . After training as a notary clerk, he found a job at the court in Stromberg . He then served as a captain in Napoléon's army in Spain and Russia until 1811 . During this time he first came into contact with the ideas of Liberté and Egalité , which had a decisive influence on his later life.

Around 1813 Mohr began studying law at the universities of Heidelberg and Gießen , which he completed with a state examination and a doctorate. In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Hassia . After graduating, he worked in the judicial service of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt . In 1820 he became a judge at the Nieder-Olm Peace Court . From 1821 he was second substitute at the state procurator at the district court of Mainz and from 1824 real chief financial advisor and fiscal attorney for the province of Rheinhessen . In 1829 he was appointed Vice President of the Mainz District Court.

In 1833 Mohr came into conflict with the state government. As a staunch opponent of the Restoration , he had a government ordinance declared unconstitutional and was subsequently removed from office and retired.

From 1834 he settled in Ober-Ingelheim , where he soon became one of the leading figures in the liberal bourgeoisie. Together with others, he was largely responsible for the establishment of the Ober-Ingelheimer Kasino-Gesellschaft in 1846 , a circle that met to exchange political ideas. During the March Revolution , Mohr was a member of the preliminary parliament and was then elected a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly. He was a member of the Priority and Petitions Committee and belonged to the far left. Together with Robert Blum he founded the Donnersberg parliamentary group . After the expulsion of the parliament he was a member of the rump parliament in Stuttgart and was therefore arrested in Mainz , but acquitted.

From 1849 to 1856 Mohr was elected to the second chamber of the state estates for the constituency Rheinhessen 5 / Nieder-Olm-Bretzenheim and later again from 1862 to 1865 for the constituency Rheinhessen 3 / Ober-Ingelheim . In 1850 he was the president of the second chamber of the 13th state parliament. He was elected in the second session of the 13th state parliament on September 11, 1850 in the second ballot with 40 of 44 votes cast. Just a few weeks later at the 13th session on September 27, 1850, the state parliament was passed by Grand Duke Ludwig III. dissolved again, so that Mohr's presidential term lasted only 17 days. The reason for the dissolution was that the second chamber did not approve a further, seventh extension of the finance law before the government presented a proper budget and accounts.

The founding of a free religious community in Ingelheim was largely due to his initiative . When Mohr died in 1865, he was buried in the cemetery of the castle church in Ober-Ingelheim with great sympathy among the population .

A street and a primary school (President Mohr School) in the Ober-Ingelheim district bear his name. His grave has been cared for since 2005 by the city of Ingelheim am Rhein with the participation of the President Mohr Primary School as an honor grave .

literature

  • Rainer Koch (Ed.): The Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. An encyclopedia of the members of the German Constituent Assembly. Kunz, Kelkheim 1989, ISBN 3-923420-10-2 .
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , pp. 267-268.
  • Eckhart Pilick (ed.): Lexicon of free religious persons (= series of minorities lexicon . Vol. 1). Guhl, Rohrbach 1997, ISBN 3-930760-11-8 .
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 602.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 189.
  • Egbert Weiß : Corps students in the Paulskirche (= then and now. Special issue 1990, ZDB -ID 300218-4 ). Birds and a., Stamsried u. a. 1990, p. 30.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Negotiations of the Second Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse / 1850 = 13th Landtag. Leske, Darmstadt 1850, MDZ Munich Digitization Center Digital Library
personal data
SURNAME Mohr, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mohr, Johannes Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and President of the Hessian State Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Warmsroth
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1865
Place of death Ingelheim am Rhein