Friedrich Pfeiffer

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Friedrich Moritz Christian Pfeiffer
Senator, Mayor
Years active1836-1879

Friedrich Moritz Christian Pfeiffer (22 July 1815 – 12 April 1879) was a

German jurist and politician
.

Biography

Early life and education

Pfeiffer was the son of the

.

From 1826 to 1833, Pfeiffer attended the Friedrichsgymnasium Kassel, of which his grandfather, Johann Jakob Pfeiffer, had been the inaugural director.[2] Due to the family into which he was born, politics and philosophy were regular topics of conversation, and Pfeiffer himself recounts his first real brush with political philosophy in 1827, while returning home to Kassel from a celebration in Marburg with his cousin Karl.[1] Karl's passion for human rights and the dignity of man as they pertained to the conditions of the people of Congress Poland left a deep impact on Friedrich, which he himself would acknowledge years later.[3] After graduating, he went on to study law, from 1833 to 1834 at University of Marburg, from 1834 to 1835 at Heidelberg University, and from 1835 to 1836 at the University of Göttingen. While a student at the University of Marburg, Pfeiffer joined the Corps Teutonia Marburg, a prominent German Student Corps.[4] Following his transfer to Heidelberg, he joined the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg, and later, the Corps Guestphalia Marburg.[5] In 1836, he passed his faculty examination and graduated from Göttingen, at which point he relocated to Kassel to work as a trainee lawyer.

On 18 September 1842, he married his first cousin Sophie Luise Pfeiffer, the daughter of his father's identical twin brother, Christian Hartmann Pfeiffer.[1]

Career

After passing additional examinations, he became an assessor at the higher court in

Hessian constitutional crisis under Hassenpflug, Pfeiffer retired from all official duties for the Hessian state.[8]

Pfeiffer left

Mayor of Bremen
and from 1 January to 31 December 1878, he also occupied the position of President of the Senate.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Pfeiffer, August Ludwig (1886). Die Familie Pfeiffer: Eine Sammlung von Lebensbildern und Stammbäumen. Kassel: Druck von Friedr. Scheel.
  2. ^ Meusel, Johann Georg (1810). Lexikon der vom Jahr 1750 bis 1800 verstorbenen teutschen Schriftsteller. Vol. 10. Leipzig: Gerhard Fleischer dem Jüngern. pp. 13–20.
  3. ^ a b c Pfaff, Adam (25 July 1879). "Nachrufe von Friedrich Pfeiffer". Hessischen Morgenzeitung. Kassel.
  4. ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 102, 140.
  5. ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 64, 261.
  6. ^ Grothe, Ewald (2016). Die Abgeordneten der kurhessischen Ständeversammlungen 1830–1866. Politische und parlamentarische Geschichte des Landes Hessen. Vol. 43. Marburg: Historische Kommission für Hessen. p. 339.
  7. ^ Lengemann, Jochen (2000). Das Deutsche Parlament (Erfurter Unionsparlament) von 1850. Munich: Elsevier. pp. 237–238.
  8. ^ Lengemann, Jochen (1996). MdL Hessen. 1808–1996. Biographischer Index. Politische und parlamentarische Geschichte des Landes Hessen. Vol. 14. Marburg: Elwert. p. 292.
  9. ^ Schulz, Andreas (2002). "III. Die Generation der Potentaten (1848 - 1880)". Vormundschaft und Protektion: Eliten und Bürger in Bremen 1750-1880. Stadt und Bürgertum. Vol. 13. Munich: Oldenbourg. p. 680.
  10. ^ Wannagat, Georg (1990). Kassel als Stadt der Juristen (Juristinnen) und der Gerichte in ihrer tausendjährigen Geschichte. Kassel: Heymann. p. 482.

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