Constitutional Law (Kingdom of Hanover)

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The state constitution for the Kingdom of Hanover existed from 1833 to 1837 and is also known as the “Basic Law for the Kingdom of Hanover”.

history

Which was prepared constitutional law at the beginning of the 1830s by the General assembly of the estates , including through their Generalsyndicus and chairman of the Commission for review of the draft constitutional - law , the Hanover State and Cabinet Minister Caspar Detlev von Schulte . From this emerged the so-called "Basic State Law" for the Kingdom of Hanover, confirmed in 1833 by Wilhelm IV, King of Hanover, Great Britain and Ireland , which came into force on September 29 of that year.

This “Basic Law” gave both the bourgeoisie and the peasant class access to the Second Chamber of the Estates Assembly. In addition, a limited was Minister - responsibility introduced as well as the general tax fund with the date previously independent Royal General Checkout to a uniform tax office together, then the budget law was submitted to the States General.

In addition, the influence of the government on the composition of the Magistrate of Hanover was reduced to the right of simple confirmation , which meant a strengthening of the city's self-government .

After the Hanover City Director Wilhelm Rumann had been President of the Second Chamber since 1832 , the City of Hanover had the right to send Bernhard Hausmann, a second deputy, to the meeting of the estates.

After the end of the Anglo-Hanoverian personal union , Ernst August , Duke of Cumberland and fifth son of the English King George III. , 1837 King of Hanover. Immediately after taking over the government, he repealed the constitution on November 1, 1837, which led to a constitutional conflict in the kingdom "in which the Hanover magistrate was also involved". Seven professors from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , called the Göttingen Seven , protested against the repeal of the constitution and were dismissed as a result. The conflict is considered to be one of the politicizing events of Vormärz .

literature

  • Carl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz: Illumination of the draft of a constitutional state law for the Kingdom of Hanover, as presented to the deposed commission by the sovereign commissaries in November 1831 , Hahn'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1831, 90 pages digitized
  • Gustav von Struve : Commentary on the draft of a constitutional state law for the Kingdom of Hanover, such as was submitted to the commissioned commission by the sovereign commissaries for preliminary consultation. First issue, containing a preliminary remark and the remarks on the first chapter, headed General Provisions , Verlag Albrecht Osterwald, Rinteln 1832, 30 pages in digital form
  • Bernhard Hausmann : Memories from the eighty-year life of a citizen of Hanover , Hanover: Hahn , 1873
  • Geoffrey Malden Willis: Ernst August, King of Hanover , translated from the English manuscript by Kurt Wagenseil , Hanover: Hahn, 1961
  • Klaus Mlynek : Basic State Law. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 583.
  • Jörn Ipsen : Power versus Law. The Constitutional Conflict of Hanover 1837-1840. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-71276-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Klaus Mlynek: Basic State Law (see literature)
  2. ^ A b Bernhard von Poten :  Schulte, Kaspar Detlev von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 690 f.
  3. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: SCHULTE, (2) Caspar Detlev von. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 326; online through google books
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Ernst August, King of Hanover. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 163f.