Otto von Porbeck

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Heinrich Otto Aemilius Friedrich von Porbeck (born October 11, 1764 in Marburg , † April 26, 1841 in Kassel ) was a high- ranking official in Hesse until 1807 . At the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia he was a high-ranking judge. After the Restoration he was again in the state service of the Electorate of Hesse.

Life

Porbeck entered the Hessian state service as a government assessor in Hanau in 1786 . A year later he moved to Kassel. In 1793 he was Counselor and 1797 Regierungsrat . Between 1804 and 1807 he was commissioner of the sovereign at the pension fund of the Althessian knighthood , the Kaufungen monastery .

In the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia he was president of the first instance tribunal in Kassel from 1808 to 1813 and, as the owner of the Kalbsburg near Fritzlar, a member of the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia ( Department of Fulda ). In 1809 he became President of the Westphalian Civil Legislative Commission.

After the end of the kingdom and the restoration of the Electorate of Hesse, he became a Privy Councilor in 1814 and again the sovereign commissioner of the Kaufungen Abbey. In October 1815 he became a member of the four-person Electoral Hesse Constitutional Commission (with Georg Schmerfeld , Ernst Friedrich von der Malsburg and Ferdinand Schenck zu Schweinsberg ), which in December presented a draft constitution for Electoral Hesse that was progressive in many respects and forward-looking. In 1815/16 he was a member of the Hessian constitutional commission. He advocated the repeal of the particularist assembly of estates in favor of a modern general representation of the people.

From 1817 to 1819 Porbeck served as government vice-president in Kassel. Then he was President of the Government until 1821. From 1821 to 1833 he was President of the Higher Appeal Court. In 1827 Porbeck was the sovereign principal commissioner at the 300th anniversary of the Philipps University of Marburg .

Elector Wilhelm II. Found himself in September 1830 by unrest in Kassel , Hanau and other places Electoral Hesse forced to yield to the demand of the citizenry for a constitution. On September 15, he assured a citizens' deputation under the Kassel mayor Karl Schomburg that the state estates would be convened and that a constitution would be drawn up. Porbeck was one of the two state parliament commissioners who presented a first draft constitution to the Kurhessische estates assembly at the beginning of October 1830 ; the other was Karl Michael Eggena . On the basis of this draft, the Electoral Hesse constitution of 1831 was drawn up over the course of the following two months , which was signed by the elector on January 5, 1831 and solemnly promulgated on January 8, 1831.

Porbeck retired in 1833.

family

Otto von Porbeck was the son of the Landgrave Hessian major and commander of Marburg Georg Heinrich Ludwig von Porbeck (1725 to approx. 1798) and his wife Katharina Christina Sibylla, née Kirchmeyer (1725–1789). The family was raised to imperial nobility in 1779. Otto's brother Georg and his cousin Bernhard Christian Duysing , as landowners, were also members of the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia. In 1834 he adopted his sister's son, August von Asbrand-Porbeck .

Honors

On February 20, 1810 he became a Knight of the Order of the Westphalian Crown. In 1817 he became a knight, in 1818 a commander, 2nd class, in 1821 a commander, 1st class, and in 1827 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Electoral Hesse Order of Lions . On December 29, 1826 he was awarded the title of Excellency. In 1827, at the 300th anniversary of the University of Marburg, he was awarded the title of Dr. hc awarded.

literature

  • Ewald Grothe : Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the first era Hassenpflug 1830–1837 , Duncker u. Humblot, Berlin 1996 (= writings on constitutional history , 48). ISBN 3-428-08509-4 .
  • Jochen Lengemann : Biographical Handbook of the Imperial Estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Estates Assembly of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-458-16185-6 , pp. 174-175.
  • Hellmut Seier (Ed.): Files and letters from the beginnings of the Hessian constitutional period 1830–1837 . Editing of dems. u. Ewald Grothe, Elwert, Marburg 1992 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 48.4; Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse , 8). ISBN 3-7708-0993-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Frotscher: Constitutional Discussion and Constitutional Conflict: On the Development of Liberal Parliamentary Constitutional Structures in Kurhessen (1813–1866) . (PDF; 73 kB) In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History (ZHG), 2002, Volume 107, pp. 203-221 (206).
  2. ^ Draft constitution for Hessen-Kassel (1816), notarized representation of the Electoral Hesse state parliament negotiations . In: Horst Dippel (Ed.): Constitutions of the world from the late 18th century to the middle of the 19th century . de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-44058-8 , e-book.
  3. ↑ Hellmut Seier (Ed.): Files and letters from the beginnings of the Hessian constitutional period 1830–1837 . Editing of dems. u. Ewald Grothe, Elwert, Marburg 1992, pp. 27-37.
  4. ↑ Genealogical pocket book of the knight and noble families. 1879. , Brno, p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Porbeck, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Porbeck, Heinrich Otto Aemilius Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurhessischer and Westphalian officials and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1841
Place of death kassel