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Oberappellationsgericht Der Vier Freien Städte
The (), since 1867 the (), seated in Lübeck was an appeals court of the German Confederation and the North German Confederation with territorial jurisdiction for Bremen, Free City of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Free City of Lübeck, Lübeck. Frankfurt was removed from the court's jurisdiction in 1867 after its annexation by Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia. In 1870 the court lost its subject-matter jurisdiction for commercial law to the and was altogether abolished in 1879. The court was considered to be the most influential German court of its time due to its exemplary combination of theory and practice. Establishment of the court (1806–1820) After the disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire the was established as the third and last court of appeal in civil and criminal matters for the former Free imperial city, free imperial cities Bremen, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg and Lübeck, as well as Bergedorf. The legal basis for the court was s:de:Seite:De Zeumer V2 543.jpg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Brandt House, Lübeck
The Willy-Brandt-Haus in Lübeck is a museum and a memorial to the late politician Federal Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Willy Brandt, of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The Berlin based branch of the also houses the Office of Monumental Protection of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, in Schleswig-Holstein. It is the third establishment in the city to honor a Nobel Prize laureate from Lübeck. The director of the Willy-Brandt-Haus is the historian, . Willy Brandt was not born in this building, but in different house in the Lübeck district of . History The Willy-Brandt House opened on 18 December 2007, on what would have been Willy Brandt's 94th birthday, in his home town of Lübeck. The establishment of a memorial in Willy Brandt's hometown was suggested by Günter Grass, Nobel laureate in literature, who had maintained political ties to him since the 1960s. The city of Lübeck provided a patrician house in need ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Windscheid
Bernhard Windscheid (26 June 1817 – 26 October 1892) was a German jurist and a member of the pandectistic school of law thought. He became famous with his essay on the concept of a legal action, which sparkled a debate with that is said to have initiated the studies of the processal law as we know it today. Windscheid's thesis established the modern German law concept of ''Anspruch'' (roughly, a legally enforceable claim), distinguishing it from the Roman law concept of ''actio''. His principal work was his ''Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts'', and this was the main source of inspiration for the German Civil Code – the BGB. Between 1873 and 1883, Windscheid was part of the commission in charge of the drafting of the German Civil Code. Additionally, Windscheid worked as a teacher at several universities in Germany and Switzerland, including Basel, Greifswald, München, Heidelberg, and Leipzig. Family Bernhard Windscheid married the artist Auguste Eleanore Charlotte "Lotte" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer
Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer (7 May 1777 – 4 October 1852) was a Germans, German jurist and Liberalism, liberal politician. He is best remembered to students of German legal history as the author of ''Praktische Ausführungen aus allen Teilen der Rechtswissenschaften, Mit Erkenntnissen des Oberappellationsgerichts zu Kassel'' or "Practical Explanations from all Parts of Jurisprudence, with Findings of the High Court of Appeal in Kassel," and for his years-long rivalry with the Hessian prime minister Ludwig Hassenpflug. Early life and career Pfeiffer was the son of the evangelical preacher, theologian, and University of Marburg professor Johann Jakob Pfeiffer and his first wife Lucie Rebecke (née Rüppel). Among his siblings were Franz Georg Pfeiffer (German politician), Franz Georg Pfeiffer and Carl Jonas Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer grew up in Kassel, where his father served as the parish priest in German Evangelical Church Confederation, evangelical parish of Oberneustadt, and Burkhard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Georg Von Wächter
Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl of Austria, last Austrian Emperor * Karl (footballer) (born 1993), Karl Cachoeira Della Vedova Júnior, Brazilian footballer * Karl (surname) In myth * Karl (mythology), in Norse mythology, a son of Rig and considered the progenitor of peasants (churl) * ''Karl'', giant in Icelandic myth, associated with Drangey island Vehicles * Opel Karl, a car * ST ''Karl'', Swedish tugboat requisitioned during the Second World War as ST ''Empire Henchman'' Other uses * Karl, Germany, municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * ''Karl-Gerät'', AKA Mörser Karl, 600mm German mortar used in the Second World War * KARL project, an open source knowledge management system * Korean Amateur Radio League, a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in South Korea * KARL, a radio station in Minnesota * Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and concurrently served as the Chancellor of Germany, chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 Nobel Peace Prize, 1971 for his efforts to strengthen cooperation in Western Europe through the EEC and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe. He was the first Social Democratic chancellor since 1930. Fleeing to Norway and then Sweden during the Nazi regime and working as a left-wing politics, left-wing journalist, he took the name Willy Brandt as a pseudonym to avoid detection by Nazi agents, and then formally adopted the name in 1948. Brandt earned initial fame as Governing Mayor of Berlin, governing mayor of West Berlin. He served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Germany), foreign minis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharineum
The Katharineum zu Lübeck is a humanistic gymnasium founded 1531 in the Hanseatic city Lübeck, Germany. In 2006 the 475th anniversary of this Latin school was celebrated with several events. The school uses the buildings of a former Franciscan monastery next to Saint Catherine Church, which was extended in the 1880s. At the Katharineum it is possible to choose Latin as the first foreign language. In year nine it is also possible to choose ancient Greek as the third foreign language. Thomas Mann, himself a student of the Katharineum, thought of this school when describing the school ''Hanno'' went to in the Buddenbrooks. Mann, who as a bad student had to resit two years, made it clear that he disliked the Katharineum by describing both the school and the teachers with strong sarcasm. His brother Heinrich Mann described the school and one infamous teacher in Professor Unrat. Image:Stamp of Germany.Werner von Siemens,1992.jpg, Werner von Siemens Ernst Werner Siemens ( von ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Hamburg Act
The Greater Hamburg Act (), in full the Law Regarding Greater Hamburg and Other Territorial Readjustments (), was passed by the government of Nazi Germany on 26 January 1937, and mandated the exchange of territories between Hamburg and the Free State of Prussia. It became effective on 1 April 1937., with the exception of paragraph 2 (unifying Hamburg to a single ''Gemeinde'') which, according to paragraph 15, had to be put into effect separately at a date determined by the minister of the interior no later than 1 April 1938, and with the exception of paragraph 10, which became effective immediately. Greater Hamburg Hamburg lost most of its exclaves, including Geesthacht and Cuxhaven. In return, Hamburg was enlarged by including formerly Prussian towns such as Altona, Wandsbek, and Harburg-Wilhelmsburg as well as a number of villages. Altona and Wandsbek had been part of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein, while Harburg-Wilhelmsburg had been a part of the Prussian Provin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preußisches Obertribunal
The , abbreviated (), was between 1703 and 1879 either the sole or one of the supreme courts of the Kingdom of Prussia. The court played a significant role in shaping Prussia's legal system and had major influence on the administration of justice in the kingdom. The court was founded by Frederick I of Prussia, Frederick I in 1703 as the (Superior Court of Appeals in Berlin) and underwent several reorganizations. In 1748, it was disestablished and integrated into the Kammergericht, where it became the Kammergericht's fourth senate. In 1782, the tribunal was separated from that court and named (Secret Supreme Tribunal). In the wake of the German revolutions of 1848–1849, it was renamed to (Supreme Tribunal), before it was disestablished in 1879 and succeeded by the Reichsgericht, which became the sole supreme court of the German Empire. History (1703–1748) The (Superior Court of Appeals in Berlin) was founded in 1703 by Frederick I of Prussia, Frederick I, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agathon Wunderlich
Gottlob Friedrich Walter Agathon Wunderlich (12 March 1810 in Göttingen – 21 November 1878) was a German jurist and a member of the ''Oberappellationsgericht der vier Freien Städte'' (an upper appellate court). History Wunderlich was the son of philologist Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich (1783–1816). Although he was not a Prussian citizen, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the prestigious Landesschule Pforta (1824–28). Afterwards he studied at the University of Göttingen, obtaining his law degree in 1832. In 1833 he received his habilitation and began serving as an Hanoverian civil servant. Due to the repeal of the Hanoverian state constitution by King Ernest Augustus and associated dismissal of the Göttingen Seven (1837), Wunderlich moved to Berlin to acquire "Prussian habilitation". Through assistance from Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815–1877), he attained the chair of Roman law at the University of Basel in 1838. In Basel he published works o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Von Jhering
Caspar Rudolph Ritter von Jhering (; also Ihering; 22 August 1818 – 17 September 1892) was a German jurist. He is best known for his 1872 book ''Der Kampf ums Recht'' (''The Struggle for Law''), as a legal scholar, and as the founder of a modern sociological and German Historical School, historical school of law. His ideas were important to the subsequent development of the "jurisprudence of interests" in Germany. Life and career Jhering was born on 22 August 1818 in Aurich, the Kingdom of Hanover. He entered the University of Heidelberg in 1836 and also studied in University of Göttingen, Göttingen, University of Munich, Munich, and starting 1838 in Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, where he earned his PhD. Of all his teachers, Georg Friedrich Puchta was the most influential one to him. In 1844, after graduating as a ''Juris Doctor, doctor juris'', Jhering established himself in Berlin as ''Privatdozent'' for Roman law, and delivered public lectures on the ''Geist de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reichsgericht
The (, ) was the supreme criminal and civil court of Germany from 1879 to 1945, encompassing the periods of the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. It was based in Leipzig. The began its work on 1 October 1879, the date on which the ' (Imperial Judiciary Acts) came into effect. The acts standardised court types and procedural rules across the newly formed German Empire and established judicial independence and unrestricted access to the courts. The court's jurisdiction included both criminal and civil cases. It handled appeals, charges of treason and, after 1920, the compatibility of state and national laws. Throughout its life, its major rulings tended to be conservative. They included the conviction of Karl Liebknecht for high treason in 1907, the lenient treatment of the men charged in the 1920 Kapp Putsch and support of the Nazi's Nuremberg Laws, antisemitic racial laws. The was abolished following Germany's defeat in World War II. Composition and jur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
