Sixt Eberhard von Kapff

Sixt (us) Eberhard Kapff , from 1818 von Kapff , (born October 4, 1774 in Göppingen , † August 31, 1851 in Stuttgart ) was a lawyer, civil servant and interior minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg .

origin

The Württemberg family Kapff has been a part of Württemberg honors since the 15th century . The progenitor of the Kapffs is the citizen Claus Schenk († circa 1463) from Schorndorf , who was an illegitimate son of Friedrich III. Schenk von Limpurg (1362-1414) was.

Sixt Eberhard Kapff was born as the son of the Göppingen deacon Ulrich Kapff (* 1739; † 1780) and Elisabethe born kauffelin (* 1746; † 1828) and grew up with four siblings.

Career

After the early death of his father, the half-orphan Sixt Eberhard Kapff came to live with his uncle, the monastery administrator Hehl, in Adelberg . Kapff attended the Latin school in Göppingen and then completed an apprenticeship as a clerk. After completing his training, he worked for his uncle Hehl's office in Calw . Kapff then began studying law at the University of Tübingen , which he obtained with a doctorate in law. jur. completed. In Yverdon he held the position of a court master before he settled as a lawyer in Calw and rose to the position of chief justice procurator. In 1806 Kapff became chief auditor in the infantry of the Württemberg Army in Stuttgart. As such, he participated in the operations of the Württemberg field division in the Napoleonic Wars against the Kingdom of Prussia (1806/1807), against the Austrian Empire (1809) and in the Russian campaign (1812). As Oberamtmann, he was only briefly at the head of the administration of the Oberamt in Rottweil in 1815 . After that, Kapff was again director of the Higher War Court and Senior Recruiting Council in Stuttgart.

politics

As a replacement candidate for the Second Chamber of the Wurttemberg estates retired Karl Adam Taglieber Kapff was in the by-election in Oberamt Mergentheim member of the second ordinary parliament 1823-1824.

His career in the Württemberg civil service led Kapff through the rank of State Councilor to a member of the Secret Council and head of the Department of the Interior and the Church and School System. Kapff performed this function, which by today's standards corresponded to that of minister of interior and culture, from January 3, 1831 to April 3, 1832. After he was removed from the administration of the department in April 1832, he continued to work on the Secret Council until he retired on May 4, 1833.

Private life

Sixt Eberhard Kapff was Protestant and in 1822 married Margarethe Gaupp, née Heigelin (* 1783, † 1848), the widow of the Landtag member Gottlob Gaupp .

Honors

• 1818 Knight's Order of Württembergischen crown , which with the personal needle tracks ( Nobilitierung was connected)
• 1830 Commentary Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown

Publications

• Comments on the draft of a penal code for the Kingdom of Würtemberg, together with an attempt on the purpose and scale of the penalty and the types of penalty. JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1836 (the work was published anonymously)
• Contribution to the advice of the rural estates on the draft of a penal code for the Kingdom of Würtemberg. JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1838 (the work was published anonymously)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1828, page 32
2. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual 1839, page 29

literature

• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 417 f .