Theodor Brüggemann (civil servant)

Theodor Brüggemann (born March 31, 1796 in Soest ; † March 6, 1866 in Berlin ; actually Johann Heinrich Theodor Brüggemann ) was a teacher, Prussian civil servant and politician.

Life

Theodor Brüggemann

Brüggemann was born the son of a Catholic brandy distiller and Höcker and his Protestant wife. He attended grammar school in Soest and in 1812 went to study at the academy in Münster . There he was among other things a student of Georg Hermes . In 1814 he became a grammar school professor for ancient languages ​​at the grammar school in Düsseldorf and in 1823 director there. In 1831 Brüggemann switched to administration, became a councilor and member of the provincial school college in Koblenz . In 1837 he carried out a special mission for Minister of Culture Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein in Rome . From 1839 he was an unskilled worker in the Education Department, teaching department. Since 1841 he rose to the secret government council and in 1843 to the lecturing council responsible for Catholic schools and universities. This was followed by the rise to the Secret Upper Government Council until 1852. Between 1849 and 1864 he was also a member of the Disciplinary Court for non-judicial officials. In addition, from 1859 to 1864 he was a member of the examination commission for the higher administrative service. As a real secret senior government councilor, he retired from service in 1864 after a stroke.

Brüggemann was the highest-ranking Catholic school expert in the Prussian administration. He tried to prevent the resettlement of Catholics in schools and universities. However, his influence was limited.

In 1855 Brüggemann became an honorary member of the Catholic Reading Association (now K.St.V. Askania-Burgundia ) founded in 1853 in the KV .

politics

As a student of Hermes, he was also considered a follower of Hermesianism, a rationalistic theological trend. Since the confusion in Cologne at the latest , he had turned away from it and was now viewed as “strictly believing in the church”. Around 1846 he tried in vain to establish a government-friendly newspaper for the Rhineland. In 1850 he was a member of the Erfurt Union Parliament in the first chamber (house of states) . Between 1849 and 1854 he was elected as a member of the first chamber of the Prussian state parliament for various districts, as a leading representative of political Catholicism. From 1851 to 1854 he was vice-president of the first chamber. From 1854 to 1866 he was appointed by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. For life as a member of the Prussian mansion and between 1854 and 1855 its vice-president.

Death and grave

Theodor Brüggemann died in Berlin in 1866 at the age of 69 and was buried in the local St. Hedwig cemetery on Liesenstrasse . The tomb has not been preserved.

literature

• Michael Klöcker: Theodor Brüggemann (1796-1866) - a study on Prussian history with special consideration of cultural politics and political Catholicism (= series of publications on history and political education, vol. 17), Ratingen / Kastellaun / Düsseldorf 1975 (Henn-Verlag) , 356 pp.
• Jochen Lengemann: The German Parliament (Frankfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups . Munich 2000, pp. 98f., ISBN 3-437-31128-X
• Wolfgang Löhr: Brüggemann, Theodor . In: Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 3rd part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 4). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1994, ISBN 3-89498-014-1 , p. 19 ff.
• Ludwig Wiese:  Brüggemann, Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 407-410.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 53.