Patent for the Duchy of Schleswig, pertaining to the amnesty
The patent for the Duchy of Schleswig, concerning the amnesty of May 10, 1851, was a Danish law with which King Frederick VII offered an amnesty to most of the participants in the Schleswig-Holstein survey . This law applied to the Duchy of Schleswig . The amnesty for the participants in the survey in the Duchy of Holstein was structurally the highest patent for the Duchy of Holstein, regarding the amnesty of March 29, 1852. The later amnesty in Holstein resulted from the later reacquiring of the full sovereignty of the Danish king over Holstein after the survey .
background
In the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein there was a Schleswig-Holstein uprising as part of the March Revolution in 1848. Even if the Provisional Government tried not to question the principle of legitimacy, the uprising in Denmark was assessed as a Sezionist rebellion directed against the king .
Schleswig finally remained under Danish control and was administered by an extraordinary government commissioner. Holstein was pacified by Prussian and Austrian federal troops , the Schleswig-Holstein Army was disbanded on April 1, 1851. Many officials and officers of the Schleswig-Holstein government and the military left the country, some emigrated to the United States and Australia.
The amnesty
Since the German-speaking part of the population of the Duchy of Schleswig had for the most part participated in the survey, the majority of the civil servants and the other elites of the Duchy had made themselves punishable according to Danish legal opinion. An amnesty was offered to stop further emigration of the leading figures and to enable cooperation with the Germans in the Duchy again. In order to accept the amnesty offer, those affected had to apply to the king.
Exceptions to the amnesty
The amnesty did not apply to a number of named personalities in the survey.
Title / Profession | Surname | complement | annotation |
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duke | Christian August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg | and his family | |
prince | Friedrich Emil August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg | and his family | |
Advocate | Wilhelm Hartwig Beseler | President of the Provisional Government | |
the members of the former Schleswig-Holstein government | Andreas Paul Adolph von Harbou | Were authorized representatives of the provisional government for Schleswig | |
and | Paul Henning von Rumohr | Were authorized representatives of the provisional government for Schleswig | |
the members of the former Schleswig Higher Court , the director, district administrator | Friedrich Karl Heinrich von Ahlefeldt | ||
Heinrich Carl Esmarch | |||
Hans Adolph Bernhard Caspar Kamphovener | |||
Friedrich Mommsen | |||
the former administrator and bailiff in the Weser-Amte Hadersleben | Georg Friedrich von Krogh | ||
the former court clerk | Andreas Hansen | in leak | Also a member of the state assembly |
the former mayor, police master and city secretary in Husum | Reinhard Hermann Ludwig Carl von Kaup | ||
the former mayor, chief of police and mayor of Aabenraa | Georg Heinrich Leonhardt Schow | ||
the former bailiff of the offices of Hütten and Gottorf and chief director of the Flecken Cappeln | Friedrich Nikolaus Adam Ludwig Baron von Liliencron | Also member of the regional assembly, mayor of Flensburg | |
the former Hardesvogt and Reitvogt of the Frös- and Kalslund-Harden | Christian August Thomas Bruhn | ||
the former provost of the Propstei Hütten and chief preacher at the Friedrichsberg Church in Schleswig | Nicolaus Johannes Ernst Nielsen | Also a member of the state assembly | |
the former provost of the Gottorf provost and chief preacher at the cathedral church in Schleswig | Nicolaus Theodor Boysen | Also a member of the state assembly | |
the former church provosts of the provost of Aabenraa and Lügumkloster and chief preacher in Aabenraa | Johann Andreas Rehhof | ||
the former church provosts of the provost office of Flensburg and chief preacher at St. John's Church in Flensburg | Hans Friedrich Christian Volquardts | ||
the former preacher at the St. Michaeliskirche in Schleswig, Dr. | Michael Baumgarten | ||
the former preacher in Azböll and Gravenstein | Jörg Brag | ||
the former preacher at Adelby | Lorenz Lorenzen | Also a member of the state assembly | |
the former subrector at the Hadersleben School of Academics, Dr. | Conrad Anton Michelsen | ||
the Dr. med & chir. | Joseph Alexander Markus | from Hadersleben | |
the Dr. med & chir. | Napoleon Friedrich August Peter Hansen | from Schleswig | |
the district administrator | August Detlev von Ahlefeldt | to Dehe | |
the former auscultant at the Schleswig-Holstein government | Carl Wilhelm von Ahlefeldt | ||
the higher and regional court advocates | Jürgen Bremer | Member of the Provisional Government | |
the higher and regional court advocates | Jakob Guido Theodor Gülich | Also a member of the state assembly and the Frankfurt National Assembly | |
the higher and regional court advocates, Dr. jur. | Carl Friedrich Heiberg | Also a member of the state assembly | |
The former government councils | Caspar Arnold Gotthold Johann Engel | ||
Peter Lüders | |||
The former provost of the noble convent in Preetz | Friedrich von Reventlou | to Wittenberg | Member of the provisional government and from 1849 to 1851 governor of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein |
the businessman | Martin Thorsen Schmidt | Member of the provisional government of Schleswig-Holstein and the state assembly | |
the former railroad director | Theodor Olshausen | Member of the provisional government of Schleswig-Holstein and the state assembly | |
the former deputy in the former General Customs Chamber and Commerz College | Carl Philipp Francke | Member of the Provisional Government of Schleswig-Holstein and the Frankfurt National Assembly | |
the former commissioner in the former General Customs Chamber and Commerz College | Rudolph Schleiden | Member of the preliminary parliament in Frankfurt and the Fifties Committee | |
the member of the former Schleswig Higher Court, the district administrator | August Detlev von Ahlefeldt | to Dehe | |
the former Hardesvogt of Cropp-Harde and for Weggerdorf | Friedrich Carl Ferdinand Jacobsen | ||
the former administrator and bailiff in the Wester-Amte Hadersleben | Georg Friedrich von Krogh | ||
the former provost of the Propstei Hütten and chief preacher of the Friedrichsberg Church in Schleswig | Nicolaus Johannes Ernst Nielsen | ||
the former preacher to Adelby | Lorenz Lorenzen | Member of the national assembly | |
the higher and regional court advocate | Hans Reimer Claussen | Member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and the State Assembly |
Web links
- Legal text for Schleswig, printed in: Schleswig-Holsteinische advertisements , May 26, 1851, pp. 161–162 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
- Legal text for Holstein, printed in: Schleswig-Holsteinische advertisements , April 12, 1852, pp. 97–98 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )