Siegfried Albrecht (politician)

Siegfried Albrecht (born October 29, 1819 in Hamburg ; † October 30, 1885 ibid) was a German politician and member of the Hamburg citizenship .

Life

On his father's side, Albrecht came from a merchant family who immigrated from Dessau . His mother came from the Berlin banking family Veit. After visiting the Johanneum , he studied law in Heidelberg . In addition to his work as a lawyer , which he began in Hamburg after completing his doctorate in 1842, he worked for the police authority as a criminal assistant actuary between 1846 and 1849. He also worked as an editor for Hamburger Nachrichten . From 1849 he mainly worked again as a lawyer and in 1850 he joined the law firm Dres. Albrecht & G. Hertz with Gustav Ferdinand Hertz . Hugo Roeloffs worked as a clerk in this office from 1857 . At the end of 1861 he took over the position of President of the Commercial Court from Johannes Versmann, who was elected Senator . He worked there until 1879 and was then appointed first president of the Hamburg district court . He had to give up the position three years later for health reasons. Christian Arning succeeded him as President of the Hamburg Regional Court.

His nephew was MP Max Albrecht .

Siegfried Albrecht died in Hamburg in 1885 and was buried in the newly built family grave complex in the Ohlsdorf cemetery . His nephew Max Albrecht had his own grave area built for himself and his relatives by the water tower on Cordesallee .

politics

In the years 1848/49 Albrecht was a member of the Constituent Assembly in Hamburg and there a member of the constitutional committee. In the Hamburg citizenship from 1859 he was elected in the parishes of St. Petri and St. Katharinen . He accepted the election in the parish of St. Katharinen and sat for it until 1865 in the citizenry. He was then sent to parliament by the commercial court until the end of his mandate in 1879. One of his main areas of responsibility was the drafting of legal texts. In addition to his parliamentary work, he also worked on the committee of the German Lawyers Association.

In honor of Albrecht, Hamburg's First Mayor Hermann Anthony Cornelius Weber said: “Albrecht was a man of deep knowledge, absolutely true, thorough in consideration, a model of good justice, simply in his demeanor he had a high nobility of conviction, he was a real German and a loyal hamburger. "

source

• Wilhelm Heyden : The members of the Hamburg citizenship. 1859-1862. Hamburg 1909, pp. 2-3.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of names of the grave complex “Dr. Siegfried Albrecht and Family ” at genealogy.net