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See also:HASSENPFLUG, HANS See also:DANIEL See also:LUDWIG See also:FRIEDRICH (1794—1862) , See also:German statesman, was See also:born at See also:Hanau in Hesseon the 26th of See also:February 1794. He studied See also:law at See also:Gottingen, graduated in 1816, and took his seat as See also:Assessor in the judicial chamber of the See also:board of See also:government (Regierungskollegium) at See also:Cassel, of which his See also:father Johann Hassenpflug was also a member. In 1821 he was nominated by the new elector, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William II., Justizrat (councillor of See also:justice); in 1832 he became Ministerialrat and reporter (Referent) to the See also:ministry of See also:Hesse-Cassel, and in May of the same See also:year was appointed successively See also:minister of justice and of the interior. It was from this moment that he became conspicuous in the constitutional struggles of See also:Germany.
The reactionary See also:system introduced by the elector William I. had broken down before the revolutionary movements of 1830, and in 1831 Hesse had received a constitution. This development was welcome neither to the elector nor to the other German governments, and Hassenpflug deliberately set to See also:work to See also:reverse it. In doing so he gave the See also:lie to his own See also:early promise; for he had been a conspicuous member of the revolutionary Burschcnschaft at Gottingen, and had taken See also:part as a volunteer in the See also:War of Liberation. Into the causes of the See also:change it is unnecessary to inquire; Hassenpflug by training and tradition was a strait-laced See also:official; he was also a first-See also:rate lawyer; and his naturally arbitrary See also:temper had from the first displayed itself in an attitude of overbearing See also:independence towards his colleagues and even towards the elector. To such a See also:man constitutional restrictions were intolerable, and from the moment he came into See also:power he set to work to override them, by means of See also:press censorship, legal quibbles, unjustifiable use of the electoral prerogatives, or See also:frank supersession of the legislative rights of the Estates by electoral ordinances. The See also:story of the constitutional deadlock that resulted belongs to the See also:history of Hesse-Cassel and Germany; so far as Hassenpflug himself was concerned, it made him, more even than Metternich, the See also:Mephistopheles of the Reaction to the German See also:people. In Hesse itself he was known as " Hessen's Hass and Fluch " (Hesse's hate and curse). In the end, however, his masterful temper became unendurable to the See also:regent (See also:Frederick William); in the summer of 1837 he was suddenly removed from his See also:post as minister of the interior and he thereupon See also:left the elector's service.
In 1838 the was appointed See also:head of the See also:administration of the little principality of See also:Hohenzollern-See also:Sigmaringen, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office which he exchanged in the following year for that of See also:civil See also:governor of the See also:grand-duchy of See also:Luxemburg. Here, too, his See also:independent See also:character suffered him to remain only a year: he resented having to transact all business with the grand-See also:duke (See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Nether-lands) through a Dutch official at the See also:Hague; he protested against the absorption of the Luxemburg surplus in the Dutch See also:treasury; and, failing to obtain redress, he resigned (1840). From 1841 to 1850 he was in Prussian service, first as a member of the supreme See also:court of justice (Obertribunal) and then (1846) as See also:president of the high court of See also:appeal (Oberappellationsgericht) at Greifswald. In 185o he was tried for peculation and convicted; and, though this See also:judgment was reversed on appeal, he left the service of See also:Prussia.
With somewhat indecent haste (the appeal had not been heard) he was now summoned by the elector of Hesse once more to the head of the government, and he immediately threw himself again with zeal into the struggle against the constitution. He soon found, however, that the See also:opinion of all classes, including the See also:army, was solidly against him, and he decided to See also:risk all on an See also:alliance with the reviving fortunes of See also:Austria, which was steadily working for the restoration of the status quo overthrown by the revolution of 1848. On his See also:advice the elector seceded from the See also:Northern See also:Union established by Prussia and, on the 13th of See also:September, committed the folly of flying secretly from Hesse with his minister. They went to See also:Frankfort, where the federal See also:diet had been re-established, and on the asst persuaded the diet to See also:decree an armed intervention in Hesse. This decree, carried out by See also:Austrian troops, all but led to war with Prussia, but the unreadiness of the See also:Berlin government led to the See also:triumph of Austria and of Hassenpflug, who at the end of the year was once more installed in power at Cassel as minister of See also:finance. His position was, however, not enviable; he was loathed a sd
despised by all, and disliked even by his See also:master. The See also:climax came in See also:November 18J3, when he was publicly See also:horse-whipped by the See also:count of Isenburg-Wachtersbach, the elector's son-in-law. The count was pronounced insane; but Hassenpflug was conscious of the method in his madness, and tendered his resignation. This was, however, not accepted; and it was not till the 16th of See also:October 1855 that he was finally relieved of his offices. He retired to See also:Marburg, where he died on the 15th of October 1862. He lived just See also:long enough to hear of the restoration of the Hesse constitution of 1831 (See also:June 21, 1862), which it had been his See also:life's See also:mission to destroy. Of his publications the most important is Actenstucke, See also:die landstdndischen Anklagen wider den Kurfurstlichen hessischen Staalsminister Hassenpflug. Ein Beitrag zur Zeitgeschiclzte and zum neueren deutschen Staatsrechte, anonym. (See also:Stuttgart and See also:Tubingen, 1836). He was twice married, his first wife being the See also:sister of the See also:brothers See also:Grimm. His son Karl Hassenpflug (1824-1890) was a distinguished sculptor.
See the See also:biography by Wippermann in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, with authorities.
End of Article: HASSENPFLUG, HANS DANIEL LUDWIG FRIEDRICH (1794—1862)
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