[2] "Nothing is more shameful than if an entire class of people face persecution in a state where each individual is constitutionally entitled to follow his or her own beliefs."
"Nichts ist schmachvoller, als wenn in einem Staate, wo Jeder verfassungsmäßig treiben und glauben darf, was er will, eine ganze Klasse der Bevölkerung um ihres Glaubens willen verfolgt wird."
He attended secondary school (Gymnasium) in Potsdam and then went on to study jurisprudence at the university in nearby Berlin between 1831 and 1834.
[2] Following the end of the reactionary period that ensued, in 1860 he became a member of the Prussian House of Representatives till 1866, and then again between 1869 and his death in 1892.
[1] Initially he was a member of the faction headed up by Georg von Vincke, which subsequently came to be identified as the "Old Liberal" (Altliberale) grouping.