Olg Hamm: Letter 1837, Election Brandts To Referendar, Signature Olg-Rat Jacobi

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addressed to the previous Higher Regional Court auscultator Johann Joseph Brandt in Duisburg, the Higher Regional Court trainee in Hamm is appointed.

Dated Hamm, 17. July 1837.

Signed by the Higher Regional Court Council and the Secret Judicial Council Jacobi (this became the 1. January 1841 awarded the Red Eagle Order 3. Class retired with loop).

On the second page Transcript of the appointment of the Minister of Justice, dated Berlin, 29. June 1837. The copy personally certified from 1. Secretary and Pronotarius of the Hamm Higher Regional Court (by Renesse).

Format:33.8x21cm

The transcript of the following qualification certificate (dated Berlin, 21. July 1832) issued by the Minister of the Interior and of the Police and the Minister of War.

size approx. 12.8" x 7.75"

About the recipient (I offer further documents in parallel):

Johann Joseph Brandt, born in Höngen (today OT von Selfkant, LK Heinsberg) as the son of Ackermann Johann Arnold Brandts (born on the 15th September 1769 in Höngen as the son of Johann Peter Brandts, 1738-1802, and Anna Barbara, b. Nolten, 1743-1819, died 24. March 1818 ibid.), and the Anna Margaretha, b. Hartmans or Hartmann's (born on 2. May 1769 in Höngen; died on the 8th January 1817 ibid.).

Johann Joseph Brandt attended the Catholic Gymnasium in Cologne (=Jesuitengymnasium / Dreikönigsgymnasium) until 1830 and studied in Bonn from November 1830 to March 1833 and in Halle from SS 1833 to WS 1833/34 (first three semesters of Catholic theology, then switching to jura ).

Brandts studied theology in Bonn with Georg Hermes (1775-1831), Johann Wilhelm Joseph Braun (1801-1863) and Johann Heinrich Achterfeld (1788-1877), jura with Clemens-August von Droste zu Hülshoff (1793-1832), Carl Ludwig Arndts von Arnesberg (1803-1878), Ferdinand Mackeldey (1784-1834) and Peter Franz Ignaz Deiters (1804-1861).

In Halle he studied with Ernst Friedrich Pfotenhauer (1771-1843), Ludwig Pernice (1799-1861), Karl Friedrich Dieck (1798-1847), Wilhelm Eduard Wilda (1800-1856), Karl Otto von Madai (1809-1850), and Anton Friedrich Hohl (1789-1862).

Professional career:

December 1834 - June 1837: Higher Regional Court Ausculcator in Duisburg

June 1837 to 30 August 1841: Higher Regional Court trainee in Hamm

31. August 1841: Assessor with limited voting rights at the OLG Hamm

min. April 1846 - March 1850: Higher Regional Court assessor in Hattingen

June 1850 to October 1855: District judge at the district court in Bochum

November 1855: Lawyer at the District Court in Bochum and notary at the Court of Appeal in Hamm, residing in Hattingen

1875: Appointed to the Judicial Council

1. July 1878: Dismissal from the judicial service and awarded the Red Eagle Order 4th Class. Class.

Marriage and Descendants:

on the 9th In July 1846 he married Julie Bergmann, born in Hattingen. on the 25th. June 1824 in Hattingen as the daughter of the economist Matthias Johannes Bergmann (* 5. June 1787 in Hattingen as the son of Heinrich Wilhelm Bergmann and Anna Christina, b. Sintermann) and Charlotte, born Loeber (b. around 1799 as daughter of Johann Heinrich Loeber). On December 12, her parents had Married December 1819 in Hattingen.

Children of Johann Joseph Brandts:

Maximilian Joseph Brandt (* 12. October 1848 in Hattingen; attended high school in Recklinghausen)

Johanna Julie Brandts (* 22. May 1852 in Bochum)

Paul Heinrich Brandts (baptized 9. July 1854 in Bochum; died already in February 1882 as a trainee lawyer at the District Court of Hattingen)

Eugen Leonhard Brandts (* 30. March 1856 in Hattingen)

Aurelia Constantia Brandts (baptized 27. December 1860 in Hattingen)

Julius Cornelius Brandts (* 18. April 1864 in Hattingen).

Condition: document folded; Paper browned, somewhat stained and creased. BPlease note also the pictures!

Internal note: Kostbhf. 22-10-1

About the early history of the OLG Hamm (source: wikipedia):

Hamm Higher Regional Court is one of the three higher regional courts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and with its 39 civil senates, eleven senates for family matters, five criminal senates and currently (as of 30. September 2022) 967 employees - including 246 judges - the largest in Germany.

story

Before 1820: In November 1815, the Prussian administration of justice relocated the Higher Regional Court Commission, which had only been set up in Emmerich at the beginning of the year, to Kleve, which had previously been the seat of an important Court Court for many years. The Higher Regional Court Commission was responsible for the areas on the right bank of the Rhine of the former Duchy of Kleve (with the towns of Emmerich, Wesel, Dinslaken and Duisburg). Otherwise, their district extended to the areas of the former County of Mark (with the cities of Bochum, Hagen and Hamm) as well as Essen, Werden, Limburg, Dortmund, Lippstadt, Broich and Recklinghausen. The Higher Regional Court of Kleve emerged from the commission in March 1817.

1820 to 1848: The cabinet order of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. from 20 April 1820 ordered the Higher Regional Court to To be relocated from Kleve to Hamm in July 1820. The reason was, among other things, that Hamm, one of the first Prussian possessions in Westphalia, had not become the seat of a district government or a higher regional court after 1815 – as initially planned. The city should be compensated for this. It was also - unlike Kleve - in the former court district. The fact that the royally ordered move could be “completed” on time is credited to the first president of the higher regional court in Hamm, Friedrich Wilhelm Berthold von Rappard, who had previously prepared the move as the second (vice) president of the higher regional court in Kleve. The courthouse of the Higher Regional Court in Hamm was an office building belonging to the Prussian state on Hammer Markt, which housed the Prussian War and Domain Chamber until the French occupation. The higher regional court in Hamm was one of the four state higher courts in the Prussian province of Westphalia, along with the higher regional courts in Münster, Paderborn and the court court in Arnsberg. In the Hammer Higher Regional Court district lived approx. 300,000 inhabitants.

Appointed President of the Higher Regional Court in 1820 at the age of 71, Von Rappard resigned on 30 April 1820. Retired June 1830. He was followed on the 4th. December 1830 Christian Friedrich Bernhard von Steltzer, who died on December 28. March 1831 as President of the Higher Regional Court in Halberstadt and it is not known whether he ever worked at the Higher Regional Court in Hamm. The Hammer presidency then took over on 9. May 1831 the 51-year-old Karl August Ferdinand von Scheibler. This switched to 1. October 1840 as President of the Higher Regional Court in Münster, where he also took over the management of the Revisionskollegium, to which appeals were to be made after first-instance decisions by the Higher Regional Court in Hamm. Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Lent, previously Vice-President at the Higher Regional Court in Münster, was killed on 1 January October 1840 appointed as Scheibler's successor as President of the Higher Regional Court in Hamm. He was to remain in office until his death on December 12. February 1868 for almost 28 years and was thus President with the longest term in the history of the Higher Regional Court of Hamm.

1849 to 1879: The revolutionary years of 1848/1849 led to significant changes in the Prussian court system and court proceedings based on the constitution imposed by the Prussian king. The Prussian Higher Regional Courts were given the designation ʺAppellation Courtʺ, which indicated that they were only courts of appeal.[3] In the first instance, collegial district courts replaced the former regional and municipal courts, which had single judges. From then on, 10 district courts in Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Hagen, Hamm, Iserlohn, Lüdenscheid, Soest and Wesel belonged to the district of the Hamm Appeal Court, which remained unchanged in size. The number of residents in the judicial district was now at approx. 515,000, a consequence of the beginning of industrialization in the Ruhr area. At 4. On July 1, 1870, the Hamm Court of Appeal celebrated its 50th anniversary in Hamm. The Westfälischer Anzeiger in Hamm dedicated a four-page celebratory edition to the court. Approx. 833,000 inhabitants now lived in the district of the Hammer Court, which had developed into the largest of the four Westphalian higher courts. After the death of the Court of Appeals President Lent on 12. February 1868 stood since 1. July 1868 Ludwig Hartmann at the head of the court. In 1870, in addition to Hartmann as President, the College of Appeals consisted of a Vice President and 16 Appellate Counselors.

1879 to 1918: After the founding of the German Empire on 1. October 1879, the imperial justice laws that came into force again changed the court structure and procedural law. A higher regional court was set up in almost every Prussian province. The district of a higher regional court included the districts of newly created regional courts, whose districts in turn consisted of the districts of the local courts subordinate to them. This is how the structure of the court system, which is still valid today, came into being in ordinary jurisdiction.

There was an intense dispute about the higher regional court responsible for the province of Westphalia. In addition to Hamm, Münster in particular also filed claims to the seat of this higher court. The then President of the Court of Appeal, Hartmann, succeeded in bringing about a decision in favor of Hamm. As a result of the rapid industrial development of the Ruhr area, the district of the Hamm Court of Appeal had become the most populous of the four districts of the Court of Appeal in the previous years. Added to this were Hamm's central location in the middle of the province and the good transport connections thanks to the railway lines that have been expanded in the meantime. From 1879, the district of the higher regional court in Hamm included 8 regional courts in Arnsberg, Bielefeld, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Hagen, Münster and Paderborn as well as 108 district courts.

After the death of the first Higher Regional Court President, Hartmann, on 6. On January 1, 1882, the former Prussian Minister of Education, Paul Ludwig Adalbert Falk, took over the July 1882 the Office of the Higher Regional Court President in Hamm. He found a higher court that had existed since 1879 and consisted of the president of the higher regional court, four presidents of the senate and 25 judges of the higher regional court. During his tenure in 1892, the district court of Bochum was established. In the years 1890 to 1894 a new courthouse was built on what was then Friedrichsplatz in Hamm, into which July 1894 the Hammer higher regional court, the district court and the senior public prosecutor's office moved in. On Falk, who died on 7th July 1900 in Hamm died and was buried in the East Cemetery in Hamm, Anton Holtgreven succeeded as the new Higher Regional Court President. His tenure was the last years of the empire. The increasing number of judges working at the Higher Regional Court in Hamm increased even after the separation of the district court in Duisburg in 1906. In 1905, in addition to the President of the Higher Regional Court, seven Senate Presidents and 32 Higher Regional Court Councilors were already involved in the jurisdiction of the Higher Regional Court.