Reinhard Eigenbrodt

This article describes the Hessian minister. For the ironworks manager of the same name, see Reinhard Eigenbrodt (ironworks manager)

Reinhard Eigenbrodt

Reinhard Carl Theodor Eigenbrodt (born March 20, 1799 in Gesmold ; † July 7, 1866 in Darmstadt ) was a Hessian politician and Minister of the Interior in the March government of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

Life

Reinhard Eigenbrodt, who was a Protestant denomination, was the son of the Hessian state parliament president Karl Christian Eigenbrodt (1769-1839) and his first wife Marianne (Friederike Jacobina), née Langsdorff (1771-1808). He married Pauline Sofie Franziska Ferdinande nee du Hall (born March 28, 1804 in Alsfeld, † April 2, 1871 in Darmstadt), the daughter of the Darmstadt city commandant Andreas du Hall.

He studied law in Giessen, from 1818 in Heidelberg and then in Jena. During his studies in 1815 he became a member of the Gießen Germanic Association , in 1816 of the honor mirror fraternity and the old Heidelberg fraternity ; In 1818/19 he became a member of the original fraternity in Jena. He was also a member of the old Göttingen fraternity . In 1820 he became court court advisor at the court in Darmstadt . From January 21, 1822, he was court attorney there and from July 5, 1824 permanent substitute for the chamber attorney in the province of Starkenburg . On November 3, 1843 he was appointed to the judiciary and a legal member of the railway management. On March 15, 1844, he became attorney general for the Starkenburg province.

politics

From 1847 to 1848 he was elected to the second chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse for the constituency of Starkenburg 10 / Odenwald-Breuberg . After his appointment as minister, he left the state parliament and Ernst Elwert became his successor. 1849-1850 he was an elected member of the 1st Chamber of the Hessian State Parliament. In 1850 he was re-elected (and now for the constituency Starkenburg 18 / Groß-Gerau) to the second chamber and left with the dissolution of the state parliament in the same year.

On June 2, 1848, he succeeded Heinrich von Gagern on the board of directors of the Ministry of the Interior , i.e. Minister of the Interior. On September 1, 1848, he was released from the ministry at his own request. Instead, he became an authorized representative of the provisional central government until 1849 .

On August 30, 1849 he became a member of the provisional arbitration tribunal of the North German Confederation and on June 6, 1860 permanent advisor to the State Council . He was a member of the State Council from May 20, 1863. On February 10, 1865 he was appointed privy councilor and retired on May 4, 1866.

Honors

On December 26, 1846, he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous and on July 16, 1848 he was honored with the Commander's Cross, Second Class, of the Order of Ludwig .

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 244-245.
• Eckhart G. Franz : Hessen-Darmstadt 1820–1935. In: Klaus Schwabe (Ed.): The governments of the German medium and small states. 1815-1933. (= German leadership classes in modern times. Vol. 14 = Büdinger research on social history. Vol. 18). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1983, ISBN 3-7646-1830-2 , p. 297.
• 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. 94.
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the states of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933. (= Political and Parliamentary History of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29). Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 1020.
• Ludwig Luckemeyer: Liberales Waldeck and Pyrmont and Waldeck-Frankenberg 1821–1981. 1984, pp. 33-44.

Web links

• "Eigenbrodt, Reinhard Carl Theodor". Hessian biography. (As of November 17, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießen Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, B. Germania or Germanenbund. No. 8.
2. ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießen Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, C. Christian-teutsche Burschenschaft so-called. Honor mirror fraternity. No. 11.
3. ^ Peter Kaupp (edit.): Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815-1819 (= treatises on student and higher education. Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89498-156-3 , p. 157.