Theodor Lehmann (politician)
Theodor Lehmann (born November 22, 1824 in Rendsburg , † July 29, 1862 in Kiel ) was a German (Holstein) politician and lawyer.
Life
Lehmann was the son of the pharmacist Carl Heinrich Lehmann and his wife Henriette Baltzer. After attending school in his hometown, Lehmann switched to a grammar school in Hamburg . At the age of 19, Lehmann began to study history, law and political science at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in 1843 . He later moved to the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and was able to successfully complete his studies at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in 1848 . Lehmann was already politically active during his studies and made the acquaintance of the historian Georg Gottfried Gervinus and Pfizer . The goal of all was a united and free Germany . Lehmann took part in the Schleswig-Holstein survey and then settled in Kiel . In the spring of 1851 Lehmann was accredited as a lawyer at the Higher Appeal Court there . In 1857 Lehmann was elected to the Kiel College of Deputies , whose spokesman he became a short time later. In 1859 he was elected as a decided opponent of Denmark in the Holstein assembly of estates . There Lehmann worked with Baron Karl von Scheel-Plessen on several laws to optimize the political situation between Germany and Denmark in Schleswig-Holstein.
In 1851 Lehmann married Caroline Amalie (1824-1856), the daughter of the psychiatrist Peter Willers Jessen . Their son Heinrich Otto Lehmann (1852–1904) became a legal historian.
literature
- Jürgen Wetzel: Lehmann, Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 94 f. ( Digitized version ).
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SURNAME | Lehmann, Theodor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Holstein politician and lawyer |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1824 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rendsburg |
DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1862 |
Place of death | Kiel |