Peter Joseph Floret

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Peter Joseph Floret (born January 18, 1778 in Werl ; † September 3, 1836 in Darmstadt ) was a lawyer, initially in the Cologne-Electorate and later in Hessen-Darmstadt services. He published numerous statistical, constitutional and legal publications and was a member of the Legislative Commission, the State Parliament and the State Council of the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

family

Adolphine Zais, née Floret

He came from a legal family in Werl and was the son of Caspar Anton Johann Floret. The father was a court councilor from Cologne, a city judge in Werl and later a grand ducal Hessian judicial officer in Werl. The mother was Maria Barbara Felicitas Adolfina, née Arndts. Peter Floret's brother Engelbert Joseph Floret emerged from the parents' marriage. His daughter Adolphine Barbara Engelbertine Caroline Eleonore Zais nee Floret (* August 1806 in Gießen; † January 15, 1876 in Wiesbaden) married the hotelier and liberal MP Wilhelm Zais .

Life

He studied law in Münster and Göttingen . After completing his studies, he returned to the Duchy of Westphalia and initially became a lawyer. In 1801 he joined the Kurkölner Officilatgericht (which soon after became the Court Court Arnsberg ) as an assessor , which was located in the Westphalian part of Kurköln after the French occupation. In 1802 he became a chancellery in Arnsberg. In 1804 he was appointed court judge . On August 28, 1804, he married his cousin Anna Elisabeth Therese Beatrix nee Arndt (1775–1836) in Arnsberg .

After the transition of the Duchy of Westphalia to Hessen-Darmstadt, he entered the Hessian service and was court judge in Gießen and in 1810 appellate judge in Darmstadt . In 1827 he became a Privy Councilor .

He has participated in contemporary legal and constitutional discourse. Between 1808 and 1811 he was a co-entrepreneur of the journal for constitutional law, politics and statistics with the title Germania. In addition, he wrote numerous statistical reports on individual territories. The script assigned to him by Johann Suibert Seibertz : "Some statistical remarks about the Duchy of Westphalia," is now often ascribed to Friedrich Arndts . He also wrote numerous articles for magazines, for example for the Westfälischer Anzeiger. He also published some works anonymously.

In 1814 he spoke out in favor of the legal unity of Germany and argued "nothing alienates peoples from one another as much as the difference in laws and political institutions". He also called for the sovereignty rights of the member princes to be ceded in favor of the German Confederation .

Since 1816 he was one of three members of the legislative commission that was supposed to draft a constitution for the Grand Duchy of Hesse . According to this, the Commission should also draw up a civil code, a code of civil procedure, a criminal code and the relevant comments. Two years after the constitution was published, he submitted a comment on the matter. In 1821 he also published a historical-critical account of the negotiations of the assembly of estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

In the 1st and 2nd electoral periods (1820-1824) he was himself a member of the second chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In the state estates he represented the constituency of Upper Hesse 11 / Hungen .

Fonts (selection)

  • Views of the past and future. In special relation to Germany and its future constitution. o. N., o. O. 1814, digitized .
  • Treatise on the civil rights and constitutional relationships of the Israelite community in Frankfurt am Main, n.d., n.o. 1817, digitized .
  • Historically critical presentation of the negotiations of the Estates Assembly of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1820 and 1821. With special reference to the constitutional charter of the Grand Duchy and excellent consideration of objects of general interest. Georg Friedrich Heyer, Giessen 1822, digitized .
  • as editor: Motives for the code of law for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, on the procedure in civil legal matters. 2 booklets. Heyer & Liske u. a., Darmstadt u. a. 1818-1819;
    • Booklet 1: Ordinary procedure at regional and city courts. 1818, digitized ;
    • Booklet 2: Ordinary procedure in the middle courts. 1819, digitized .
  • Discussions on the constitution of the landed estates in Germany, particularly in relation to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Groos, Heidelberg 1820 digitized .

literature

  • Johann Suibert Seibertz : Westphalian contributions to German history. Volume 1. Georg Friedrich Taschè, Darmstadt 1819, pp. 162–164.
  • Ferdinand Dieffenbach: The Grand Duchy of Hesse in the past and present. 2nd Edition. C. Hoffmann, Darmstadt, 1883, p. 640.
  • 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. 101.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ruppel, Groß: Hessian delegates 1820–1933. 1980, give Peter as the only nickname.
  2. ^ Ruppel, Groß: Hessian delegates 1820–1933. 1980, give September 6, 1835 as the date of death.
  3. ^ Claudia Schöler: German legal unity. Particular and national legislation (1780–1866) (= research on German legal history. Vol. 22). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-412-12503-2 , p. 94, (also: Bayreuth, Universität, dissertation, 2002/2003).
personal data
SURNAME Floret, Peter Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Floret, Peter Joseph Maria Aloys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION jurist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Werl
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1836
Place of death Darmstadt