August von Bethmann-Hollweg

Moritz August von Bethmann Hollweg ( born April 8, 1795 in Frankfurt am Main, † July 14, 1877 at the Castle Rheineck at Niederbreisig ) was a German jurist and Prussian politician.

Life

Bethmann Hollweg was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of one of the richest men of the Old Kingdom, the banker Johann Jakob Bethmann Hollweg. Throughout his life he had no financial worries. Carl Ritter and Georg Friedrich Grotefend trained him. Later he studied in Göttingen and then at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, where he was influenced mainly by Friedrich Karl von Savigny. While still a student, he took part in the deciphering of the Veronese Gaius discovered by Niebuhr.

On the night of New Year's Day 1817, he experienced his awakening to the Christian believer. In the Christian- German Table Society Adolf von Thadden - Trieglaffs he learned the Leopold Ernst Ludwig and Otto von Gerlach brothers and Ernst Senfft of Pilsach know and wrong with the Crown Prince, who raised him as king later in the peerage. In 1819 he completed his habilitation in Berlin and in 1823 full professor without salary. On the advice of Savigny he had taken the civil process as a teaching subject. Thus began a new era for the Code of Civil Science. The policy remained Bethmann Hollweg away. The reaction with their demagogues persecutions, their police supervisors and Inquirententum pushed him back. In the years 1827/28 he served as rector of the university.

In 1829 he moved to the University of Bonn. The active, coined by the members life's little Bonner community had its effect on Bethmann Hollweg, the particularly appealed to the Reformed Presbyterian. The difficulty which Bethmann Hollweg had found earlier to set the appearance of the legal system in accordance with its religious and moral belief and that he had not overcome in his Berlin lectures encyclopedic, now lay behind him. In 1840 the Prussian king him to the ranks of hereditary nobility. In the summer of 1842 he took the post of curator and Extraordinary Plenipotentiary at Bonn University. In 1845 he entered the State Council. Bethmann Hollweg now turned his attention more to the political and ecclesiastical development.

In 1848, he founded the German Evangelical Church, which he was president (partly in collaboration with Friedrich Julius Stahl ) remained until 1872 and was also chairman of the founded by Johann Hinrich Wichern Central Committee for the Inner Mission. In the context of the Frankfurt National Assembly, he became friends with Dietrich Wilhelm Landfermann. Bethmann Hollweg tried like this, politically to represent a position of the center: its from 1852 along with Count von der Goltz in the weekly paper published attitude was the demand of the controlled expansion of a constitutional state in a conservative- liberal sense. In the 1850s, he was the head of the weekly party.

From 1849 to 1855 he was with a short interruption member of the first and second Prussian chamber. He was considered the head of his faction, which excelled despite low numbers through spiritual significance of their members and their political beliefs. From 1858 (the beginning of the reign of William I ) to 1862 ( the start of the ministry of Otto von Bismarck ) Bethmann Hollweg was Prussian minister of culture. The Ministry had its seat in the street Unter den Linden 4 As a privateer he wrote from 1863 to 1874 at Castle Rheineck his main work The Civil process of common law in historical development. The son of his eldest son Felix von Bethmann Hollweg Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, 1909-1917 Chancellor.

Publications

• Plan to lectures on the common Civil process. Nicolai, Berlin 1821; 3 increased output: plan to lectures on general and Prussian Civil process. Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1832 ( digitized ).
• Essay on some parts of the theory of civil process. Nicolai, Berlin / Stettin 1827 ( digitized ).
• Court system and process of declining Roman Empire: A contribution to the history of Roman law until Justinia. Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1834 ( digitized ).
• Origin of the Lombard cities of Liberty: A historical investigation. Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1846 ( digitized ).
• The reactivation of the Prussian county. Wilhelm Hertz, Berlin 1851 ( digitized ).
• The history of freedom. In: Protestant monthly sheets for inner history. Vol 9 and 10, 1857/58;
• The Civil process of the common law in historical development. 6 volumes. Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1863-74 ( digitized: Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 4:1).
• Family message. 2 parts. Carl Georgi, Bonn 1876/1878 ( digitized ).