Justizminister Ludwig Simons (1803-1870): Bestallung Berlin 1855 to The Notary

You are bidding on onesigned letter of the Prussian Minister of Justice Ludwig Simons (1803-1870).

Dated Berlin, 13. October 1855.

Addressed to for the circuit judge Johann Joseph Brandt in Bochum, who at his own request to Lawyer at the district court in Bochum and notary at the Court of Appeal in Hamm (residing in Hattingen).

With large blind embossed royal seal.

Format: 34.3 x 21.3 cm. On strong paper.

Used as a pre-philatelic cover, with a nice seal of the Secret Chancellery of the Ministry of Justice, red stamp "Auslagen" and handwritten notes (tax notes, "5 Sgr. postal advance" etc.)

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 (b. 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 Anna Margaretha, b. Hartmans or Hartmanns (b. on 2. May 1769 in Höngen; died on the 8th January 1817 ibid.).

Johann Joseph Brandts 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- March 1850: Higher Regional Court assessor in Hattingen (employed at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm)

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 and somewhat stained. Bitte note also the pictures!

Internal note: Kostbhf. 22-10-1

About Ludwig Simons (source: wikipedia):

Ludwig (or Louis) Benjamin Simons (* 13. December 1803 in Elberfeld (today a district of Wuppertal); † 19 July 1870 in Elberfeld) was a Prussian lawyer and politician.

Life and work: Between 1822 and 1825 Simons studied law in Bonn and Berlin. He then worked first at the Court of Appeal in Cologne and later at the District Court in Düsseldorf. From 1832 he was procurator (public prosecutor) in Düsseldorf and from 1835 in Elberfeld. Between 1841 and 1847 Simons officiated as the third Advocate General ( Attorney General ) in Cologne. With the title of a secret judiciary, he was a lecturer in the Prussian Ministry of Justice between 1847 and 1849.

At the same time he was a member of the Prussian National Assembly in 1848. As such, he belonged to the right and represented moderately liberal to conservative views. Between 1849 and 1860 Simons was Prussian Minister of Justice and a member of the Council of State. In addition, Simons was a member of the first chamber of the Prussian state parliament between 1849 and 1852. Later he belonged to the manor house. Between 1852 and 1854 he was also a member of the second chamber. From 1854 he held the title of Crown Counsel. After the end of his term as Minister of Justice, he lived privately. He was a knight of the Order of the Red Eagle, first class, and since 1860 Grand Commander of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern. At 13th. In February 1837 he married Charlotte Meckel in Elberfeld, with whom he had eight children.