Johann Gustav Heckscher

Johann Gustav Wilhelm Moritz Heckscher ( born December 26, 1797 in Hamburg, † April 7, 1865 in Vienna ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Biography

Johann Gustav Heckscher, son of a Jewish banker converted 1808 to the Protestant faith and participated as a volunteer in 1815 participated in the wars of liberation. From 1816-1820 he studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen and was awarded his doctorate in 1820 in Göttingen. During his studies he became a member of the old fraternity Göttingen (1816 ), the Old Heidelberg fraternity (1817 ), the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg ( 1818) and the Göttingen and Heidelberg fraternity (1818 ). In 1817 he was a participant at the Wartburg Festival. After several years of study trip through Europe he worked until 1853 as an attorney in Hamburg, wrote several political and legal writings and was active in his native city for the establishment of a university and as president of the Bar Assembly.

In 1848 he took part in the Pre-Parliament, was a delegate in the fifties Committee and represented the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on 18 May 1848 to 30 May 1849 as a deputy in the National Assembly in Frankfurt. There, he represented a kind of constitutional monarchy. He wanted a strong monarchical central power with a parliament which is limited only to the legislature. In July 1848, he played a major role in the establishment of the Provisional Central Power and was among other things, spokesman for the Reichsverweserdeputation. On July 15, the scoring for Casino Group Heckscher was appointed the first Minister of Justice of the provisional central government under Prime Minister Karl zu Leiningen, on August 9, he also took over the kingdom of Foreign Affairs. Following the resignation Leiningens following the rejection of the Treaty of Malmö on 5 September 1848 he went to the end of the year as an envoy of the central authority to Turin and Naples. In December 1848 he left the Casino Group and agreed henceforth to the federal court in Paris oriented. Beginning of 1849, he tried again in vain as the delegate of several committees to a large German solution.

From 1853 until his death in 1865, he worked as a messenger and Hanseatic Hamburgischer Minister Resident in Vienna.