Friedrich Moritz Christian Pfeiffer was a German jurist and politician.
11 Facts About Friedrich Pfeiffer
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Friedrich Pfeiffer's family was prominent in Hesse, beginning with his grandfather Johann Jakob Pfeiffer, Marburg University professor and dean, and personal religious tutor to the Elector of Hesse.
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From 1826 to 1833, Pfeiffer attended the Friedrichsgymnasium Kassel, of which his grandfather, Johann Jakob Pfeiffer, had been the inaugural director.
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Friedrich Pfeiffer's time in Marburg was particularly contentious, because the court expected him to help them perpetrate what in his eyes was an undue and unnecessary campaign against the Friends of the Light, a rationalist and humanist protestant sect then developing in Germany.
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Friedrich Pfeiffer's written decision regarding the group reflected his own liberal principles, and did little to endear him to his superiors on the court.
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In 1850, having sufficiently angered Ludwig Hassenpflug during his time in parliament, Friedrich Pfeiffer was relegated to the position of superior court judge in Fulda.
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In 1851, following the Hessian constitutional crisis under Hassenpflug, Friedrich Pfeiffer retired from all official duties for the Hessian state.
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Friedrich Pfeiffer left Hesse and relocated to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, where he was welcomed and given full privileges as a citizen, including a seat on the Burgerschaft of Bremen.
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Friedrich Pfeiffer briefly considered attempting to regain a foothold in his fatherland by acquiring the deed to his family's now defunct paper mill in Niederkaufungen, but that plan proved fruitless.
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From 1852 to 1864 Friedrich Pfeiffer served as a high court attorney, and on 15 July 1864 he was elected a member of the Senate of Bremen, a post which he would hold until his death.
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From 1 January 1876 until his death on 12 April 1879, Friedrich Pfeiffer held the position of Mayor of Bremen and from 1 January to 31 December 1878, he occupied the position of President of the Senate.