Karl Albert von Kamptz

Charles Albert of Kamptz, Carl Albert of Kamptz ( born September 16, 1769 in Schwerin, † November 3, 1849 in Berlin; Complete name: Charles Albert Christoph Heinrich von Kamptz ) was a German judge and Prussian Minister of Justice.

Life

Kamptz ' parents were later Mecklenburg- Strelitzsche Minister Albrecht von Kamptz (1741-1816) and his wife Louise Friederike Amalie born of Dorne. From October 1787 he studied law, first at the Frederick University Biitzow, then from 1788 to 1790 at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen. After the preparatory service as assessor, he was appointed head of the school board and speakers in the Privy Council and Government College in Neustrelitz. In 1794 he resigned from the civil service. On the Mecklenburg State Parliament on 19 November 1798 he was elected by the knights to the regular assessor of the Court and the District Court in Güstrow; time, he was appointed by the Swedish Pomeranian knighthood on 27 February 1802 Assessor on the Wismar Tribunal. On September 2, 1804 it presented the Prussian court, under appointment as Lord Chamberlain to the Electorate of Brandenburg entitled Assessorat at the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar. Took place on March 27, 1805 after passing the examination, the appointed member of the Supreme Court of the Old Kingdom - the last appointment ever of a member before the repeal of the Imperial Supreme Court in 1806 in the wake of the dissolution of the German Imperial Constitution.

An appeal to the Vice President of the Supreme Judicial College Württemberg in Stuttgart, he struck out. He remained until 1809 as a pensioner in Wetzlar and participated in the settlement business of the court. Had been given was for him also a strongly and publicly guided discussion with the former procurator Philipp Jacob of Gülich, the Mecklenburg Diesnt taken over him, men. In 1809 he returned to Neustrelitz; him afterwards, he headed year as preußuischer Chamberlain the body of Kömnigin Luise to Prussia and was here in 1811 a position at the Berlin Court of Appeal, where he worked as a member of the upper appellation Senate. His further career took Kamptz through the Office of the Executive Director of the Police Department (1817 ) and First Director, Ministry of Justice (1825 ) to the appointment as Privy Heads of State and Minister of Justice in 1832. Besides his position as Chief of Police in the Interior Ministry, he was from 1822 also director the teaching department in the Ministry of Culture. 1829, the Academy took profit Sciences Erfurt Kamptz as a member, and elected him as its president in 1829. As such Kamptz was the successor of Count Louis of Dorotheus cellar. 1848 laid down Kamptz this office. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary service honoring the Berlin Kamptz with the awarding of honorary citizen.

Time life Kamptz was set very conservative in him in the press, the name-calling "liberals Guzzler" earned. The writer ETA Hoffmann caricatured Kamptz in his work as Master Flea " police sniffer Knarrpanti ". Kamptz particularly distinguished himself in the pursuit of " Jacobin " machinations and the burning of books out on the Wartburg festival in 1817 in the Grand Duchy of Saxe -Weimar- Eisenach. Besides Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich, he was one of the toughest opponents and persecutors of the freedom of the press there in 1816 adopted under Grand Duke Carl August. Not only in literature but also in contemporary liberal press beat Kamptz against fierce resistance. So polemicizes 1818 Friedrich Förster in the journal Nemesis due to the Wartburg festival clearly against Kamptz. The stumbling block is that of Kamptz published in the yearbooks of the Prussian legislative position paper, " discussion, as he calls it, on the public - incineration of printed matter '. " Kamptz, which is evident by the public burning also his Codex Gensd ' armerie " aggrieved person " feels engages in his essay on the event at the Wartburg, arguing (not just legal) for a prosecution and punishment of such acts. Kamptz keeps it " the theoretical state master carpenter [ for ] the state just as harmful as the political professors of the sciences ", foresters quoted him, and demand under reference to the Spanish Inquisition [! ] "That they [ the burning ] for all particularly treacherous and heinous crimes, such as the works of public teachers and Histrionen [ sic] should be introduced, which has been employed by the state to make the young citizens into loyal citizens and useful servants of the state, but do not meet this definition, but them early to breathe the poison of their demagogic principles! "These words clearly aimed against the political professors in Jena, specifically against the" histrion " Luden, one of the most important, spirit rectores ' the Jena first student fraternity. Besides the polemical correction of foresters, Histriones ' were in Rome actor was, " in the oldest Poss games of the Romans, the Satyra and mime, occurred " and not, as Kamptz it uses, historian, he comments on the requirement of Prussia: " I like him, built pyre to throw heretical works and the heretics to the flames ." Nevertheless Kamptz condemned the burning "permitted " writings as " Iniurien ". Ranger replied the lawyer Kamptz: "The author does not seem to know what Iniurie, nor what rough Iniurie is, nor what Iniurien be punished by official channels, or he would certainly immediately instruct the Grand Ducal Court of Weimar authorities of their duties. "

In the Berlin Schneider Revolution of 1830 was less the king, but rather, as the historian Ilya Mieck writes, the reactionary clique Wittgenstein and Kamptz held responsible for non-compliance of the royal constitutional promise.

He had on December 30, 1802 in Prützen Hedwig Susanna Lucy, née von Bülow ( * May 25, 1783; † August 13, 1847 ), married a daughter of the bailiff Friedrich Christian von Bülow on Prützen, Haeger field, Mühlengeez and Critzow, Hedwig and the Heilwig, born Behr on Nustrow. The couple had four children: Hedwig Louise Friderika Albertine (1803-1868), married to Wilhelm von Bonin ( Administrative Officer ); Friedrich Albert Carl Anton (1805-1833), Heilwig Maria Sophia Florina (1806-1807) and ( Albert) Ludwig ( Florus Hans) ( 1810-1884 ).

Due to various circumstantial keep it genealogists possible that Kamptz the biological father of prehistorian, archivist and curator Georg Christian Friedrich has been Lisch.

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