Moritz von Baumbach

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Moritz Ernst von Baumbach (* 25. February 1789 in Maastricht , † 15. June 1871 in Kassel ) was a Kurhessischer lawyer , member of the Hessian States General , President of the Parliament and Minister of Justice of the Electorate of Hesse.

Life

Origin and youth

Moritz von Baumbach was born on February 25, 1789 in Maastricht, where his father, Wilhelm Lebrecht von Baumbach (* February 12, 1757 in Nentershausen , † July 8, 1826 in Kassel) from the Kirchheim branch of the Lords of Baumbach , Rittmeister , later Major in a Dutch dragoon regiment and adjutant to the governor of Maastricht , Landgrave Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel zu Rumpenheim . 1793, after the revolutionary France both Britain and the United Provinces of the declared war , had his mother Caroline returned Schenck zu Schweinsberg back with Moritz and his sister Caroline to Hesse. The father followed in early 1795, after the conquest of Maastricht by the French in autumn 1794 and the end of the old republic of the United Netherlands, and took care of the property inherited from his mother in Reichensachsen . The mother died in 1796, and Moritz von Baumbach and his siblings were brought up from 1797 by their father's second wife, Amalie Treusch von Buttlar , and a private tutor. As Landgrave Wilhelm IX. From Hessen-Kassel after a long legal dispute in 1800 the Reichensachsen fiefdoms of the Boyneburgers withdrew as settled fiefdoms , the family moved to the Baumbach'schen family estates in Kirchheim .

After Wilhelm Lebrecht von Baumbach was appointed as head stable master in Fulda in early 1803 in the service of Prince Wilhelm Friedrich von Oranien-Nassau , later Wilhelm I of the Netherlands , in the Principality of Nassau-Oranien-Fulda in 1802-1806, Moritz von Baumbach commuted from 1803 to 1805 between Kirchheim, Fulda and the family headquarters in Nentershausen . In 1805, enrolled him at the University of Marburg to law study.

Professional career

After completing his studies, Baumbach became an assessor at the district tribunal in Hersfeld in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia, which had existed since 1807, and then in October 1810 at the tribunal in Kassel under its president Otto von Porbeck . In February 1813 he was appointed State Council Auditor.

After the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia in the autumn of 1813, Moritz volunteered in the Hessian battalion of volunteer hunters on horseback, which in 1814 occupied Lorraine and Luxembourg as part of the Hessian army corps and was released again in July 1814. Then he was set back in the restored Hessian judiciary, where he enjoyed a fast career. As early as 1825 he was appointed as a councilor to the Higher Appeal Court, the highest regional court. Since the separation of the administration of justice and administration was also symbolically important to him, he then returned his chamberlain key to the elector.

After the proclamation of the Hessian constitution in 1831 , the knighthood of the Fulda district elected Baumbach to the Hessian state assembly , where he - moderately liberal - tried to mediate between parliament and the reactionary interior and justice minister Ludwig Hassenpflug . When he was re-elected in 1832 as a representative of the knighthood of the Fulda district, however, he was refused the vacation necessary to exercise his mandate as a civil servant, whereupon his half-brother Ludwig Carl was elected as a member of his place.

When Hassenpflug became Minister of Justice again in 1834, he transferred Baumbach from the Higher Appeal Court in Kassel as Higher Court Director to Rinteln in the remote enclave of Schaumburg ; However, the estates of the Grafschaft Schaumburg repeatedly elected him to the Kurhessische estates assembly, of which he was finally president from 1839 to 1844.

In the course of the March Revolution in 1848 , Moritz von Baumbach was entrusted with the Hessian Ministry of Justice on March 11, 1848 in the so-called March government of the previous Mayor of Hanau , Bernhard Eberhard . The reaction heralded by the invasion of mainly Bavarian federal troops , known by the Hessian population as penal Bavaria , marked the end of Baumbach's professional and political career. He was dismissed as Minister of Justice on February 23, 1850 when the entire ministry resigned and was replaced by the second ministry, Hassenpflug. He was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Kassel on March 2, 1850 , was appointed President of the Higher Court in Marburg a week later, and resigned from this office in December 1850 because he did not want to support Hassenpflug's reactionary policies.

Retirement

He spent his twilight years as a private citizen partly in Marburg and partly in Kassel. Moritz von Baumbach died on June 15, 1871 in Kassel after suffering several strokes.

Marriage and offspring

Moritz von Baumbach was married twice. His first marriage to Luise Schenck zu Schweinsberg , daughter of the later (1830–1831) Justice Minister Ferdinand Schenck zu Schweinsberg (1765–1842) and his wife Christiane Friederike Wilhelmine Charlotte Treusch von Buttlar (1770–1832), ended with the early and childless Death of his wife. Then married her younger sister Maria Sophia Caroline Schenck zu Schweinsberg on June 1, 1827 (* January 4, 1800 in Marburg, † June 27, 1888 in Meiningen ). This marriage had a daughter, Luise Christiane Amalie Marie Sophie Caroline (born June 11, 1829 in Kassel, † May 30, 1887 in Meiningen), who owned the Meiningen Chief Forester Ernst von Baumbach (1821-1870), a distant relative of her father At home Nassenerfurth , married and with him had two sons, Moritz and Carl.

literature

  • Ewald Grothe (ed.): The members of the Electoral Hessian Estates Assemblies 1830–1866. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 13 = Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse . Vol. 43). Historical Commission for Hesse, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-942225-33-5 , number KSV-024.
  • 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 , p. 64.
  • Karl Wilhelm Wippermann: Electoral Hesse since the War of Independence. Kassel, 1850

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Lebrecht's mother was Christine Luise, or Louisa Christina, from Boyneburg called Hohenstein (born May 17, 1730 in Reichensachsen , † December 28, 1805 in Nentershausen), daughter of Dietrich Philipp von Boyneburg called von Hohenstein (Hanstein) Reichensachsen and Henriette von Bodenhausen ; she had married Reinhard IV von Baumbach (1708–1765) in 1745. With the death of the Hessen-Kassel Oberhofmarschall Carl von Boyneburg called Hohenstein (1729–1792), the allodial and feudal estates of the Boyneburg belonged to them.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Lebrecht von Baumbach was married twice. The marriage on May 7, 1788 with Caroline Schenck zu Schweinsberg (May 7, 1770 in Schweinsberg , † November 11, 1796 in Kassel) came from Moritz, Caroline and Friedrich, born in 1796. In 1798 he married Amalie Treusch von Buttlar from the Altefeld family, with whom he had sons Ludwig, Ernst and Hermann and daughters Marie, Mathilde and Auguste. ( Ludwig Carl Wilhelm von Baumbach-Kirchheim: Memories from the life of a very old man (1799 - 1883) )
  3. ↑ He lost this position in October 1806 when the principality was dissolved by Napoléon .
  4. ^ Karl Wilhelm Wippermann: Electorate Hesse since the War of Freedom , p. 345.
  5. ↑ Ludwig Carl Wilhelm von Baumbach-Kirchheim: Memories from the life of a very old man (1799 - 1883) and August von Baumbach: History of the von Baumbach family who belonged to the old Hessen knighthood. Elwert, Marburg, 1886, p. 90
  6. ↑ August von Baumbach: History of the von Baumbach family belonging to the old Hessen knighthood. Elwert, Marburg, 1886, p. 90
personal data
SURNAME Baumbach, Moritz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumbach, Moritz Ernst von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessian High Court Director, Minister of Justice and Member of Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Maastricht
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1871
Place of death kassel