Maximilian Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Graevell

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Maximilian Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Graevell

Maximilian Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Graevell (also Carl ; born August 28, 1781 in Belgard ; † September 29, 1860 in Dresden ) was a lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

Grävell was born the son of a Protestant field minister. In 1799 he began his law studies in Halle (Saale) , which he completed in 1801 with a doctorate . In the same year he started as an auscultator at the Berlin City Court and a year later Grävell married. In 1803 he became regimental quartermaster and auditor in the Sobbe fusilier battalion in Essen and in 1804 appraiser of the chamber court in Berlin. In the same year he was appointed government assessor in Płock and in the same year acquired the Starckow estate near Stolp . In 1806 he finished his activity in Płock and devoted himself exclusively to his estate. But a year later he went to Cottbus as a lawyer and stayed there for two years. He then went to Dresden as a judicial officer. There he became a member of the Freemasons in 1810 . In 1811 he became a higher regional judge in Soldin . He stayed in this position for only one year and was then, also for only one year, legal advisor to the government in Stargard . In Stargard he became a councilor in the military government in 1813 and in the same year began to take part in the wars of liberation as a captain . He later became adjutant to the commanding general of the Polish Landwehr and brigade adjutant in Berg's corps.

After the fighting he became government legal advisor in Merseburg in 1816 , from which he was suspended in 1818 on the basis of a lawsuit and only received a waiting allowance equal to half of his actual salary. He was charged with a press offense , broken official secrecy and gross insult to state ministers. For this he was sentenced to six months in prison in 1820, which he served in the Berlin city bailiwick. Also in 1820 he was sentenced to pay 50 thalers due to a conflict with the censorship authorities.

In 1824 he acquired the Wolfshayn manor near Muskau . In Muskau in 1825 he became the authorized managing director of the Prince of Pückler's lordship and remained in this position until 1832. In 1829 criminal proceedings were initiated against him again for insulting the Prussian General Commission in Soldin, the government in Liegnitz and the Prussian government, for which he was sentenced to three months imprisonment by the Glogau Higher Regional Court in 1832 .

In 1833 he became a secret councilor in the Kamptz Ministry before retiring in 1834. He then moved to Spremberg and worked there as a freelance writer. In the following years he moved several times within the administrative district of Frankfurt . a. to Lübben .

On May 18, 1848, Grävell became a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly as a member of Muskau and remained so until May 16, 1849. At the beginning he was a member of the liberal Casino faction , but later switched to the conservative Café Milani .

On June 17, 1848 he became a member of the Legislative Committee . He was considered a boring, but also the most tireless petitioner of the committee and was an advocate of the monarchy . After the resignation of Heinrich von Gagern , Graevell, who had already been appointed Minister of the Interior on May 9, 1849 , was appointed Prime Minister on May 16, 1849 in the turmoil of the Reich constitution campaign , which he had no real influence until June 3, 1849.

Works

  • What must he who knows nothing about Freemasonry other than what is generally known about it necessarily think of it? Maurer, Berlin 1810 ( digitized version )
  • Saxony's rebirth in Mainz with Florian Kupferberg, 1814
  • Does Prussia need a constitution? Maurer, Berlin 1816 ( digitized version )
  • Latest treatment by a Prussian state official. Gräff, Leipzig 1818 ( digitized ; autobiography)
  • The human being. An investigation for educated readers. 3rd edition, Maurer, Berlin 1818 ( digitized version ); 4th edition, Güntz, Leipzig 1839 ( digitized , with portrait)
  • The reunion after death. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1819 ( digitized version )
  • How should the Constitution of Prussia not be? Brockhaus, Leipzig 1819 ( digitized version )
  • Examination of the reports of the royal. prussia. Immediate Justice Commission on the Rhine, on the judicial institutions there. Fleischer, Leipzig 1819 (digitized: Volume 1 , Volume 2 )
  • Anti-Bzbg or judgment of the writing: The administration of the state chancellor, Prince von Hardenberg. Schreiber, Jena 1820 ( digitized , digitized )
  • The state official as a writer or the writer as a state official in Prussian. Metzler, Stuttgart 1820 ( digitized version )
  • Graevell's letters to Emilien about the persistence of our feelings after death. Further elaboration of the author's earlier work: Der Mensch; and at the instigation of Wiser's writing: Man in eternity. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1821 ( digitized , different digitized )
  • The Citizen: Another Inquiry into Man. Maurer, Berlin 1822 ( digitized version )
  • The value of mysticism. Kobitzsch, Merseburg 1822 ( digitized version )
  • The Regent: a continuation of the study of man and the citizen for educated readers. Metzler, Stuttgart 1823 (digitized: Volume 2 )
  • The story of my resignation from the civil service according to the original documents. Schreiber, Jena 1837 (digitized version : part 1 , part 2 )
  • A Protestant Christian congratulates the German Catholic communities. Luebben 1845
  • Popular sovereignty and the imperial administrator. 1848
  • Write to the Club of MPs in the Casino. Brönner, Frankfurt am Main 1848 ( digitized version )
  • Enough! Enough! Enough! Six speeches. Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1849 ( digitized version )

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SURNAME Graevell, Maximilian Karl Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graevell, Maximilian Carl Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgard
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1860
Place of death Dresden