Gustav of Mandry

Gustav von Mandry (Portrait of Eugen Hofmeister , 1899, in the Tübingen Professorengalerie )

Johann Gustav Karl Mandry , from 1875 by Mandry , (born January 31, 1832 in Waldsee ; † May 30, 1902 in Tübingen ) was a German lawyer and university professor in Tübingen.

ancestry

Gustav Mandry was the son of the lawyer Karl Mandry (* 1805, † 1863), who was the domain director of the Oberrentamt of the Prince of Waldburg-Wolfegg . The grandfather Johann Baptist Mandry came from a family of farmers and craftsmen from Sulz in Alsace and was also employed by the Prince of Waldburg-Wolfegg as a rent clerk. Gustav Mandry's mother Elisabeth Mandry née Fimpel (* 1812, † 1902) was the daughter of the host Sebastian Fimpel, who ran the Hirsch Gasthaus in Waldsee.

Life

After attending the Latin school in Ravensburg from 1841 to 1845 and the grammar school in Ehingen from 1845 to 1849, Gustav Mandry studied law from 1849 to 1854 at the universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen . After the second legal state examination in 1855, Mandry traveled to France and Great Britain to deepen his legal knowledge. In the years 1858 to 1859 he briefly took up a position at the city court in Stuttgart. In 1859 he went to the court of the Donaukreis in Ulm and on July 15, 1860 was appointed senior judicial officer. On August 5, 1861, Gustav Mandry accepted a full professorship for Roman law at the University of Tübingen. Since 1867 he also taught Württemberg private law there. Until the founding of the empire in 1871 , Mandry was a supporter of the Greater German solution . From 1872 to 1873 he was rector of the University of Tübingen. In 1879 Mandry became a member of the town council of Tübingen. In 1884 he joined the first commission for the drafting of the German Civil Code (BGB) for the Kingdom of Württemberg and on this occasion he and his family moved to the capital of Berlin until 1889 . Since 1885 Mandry was a member of the State Court. From 1891 to 1895 he was also a member of the second commission for drafting the BGB, during which time he lived again in Berlin. As an excellent expert on the administration of justice in southern Germany, he was able to somewhat dampen the dominant influence of northern German lawyers in the creation of the BGB. As an advisor to the Reich government for the family law part of the BGB, he appeared both in the Federal Council and later in the Reichstag . From 1896 to 1899 he chaired the commission for drafting the Württemberg law implementing the BGB. After his retirement on July 15, 1899, on January 10, 1901, he received a permanent mandate in the First Chamber of the Württemberg Land estates . He entered the Chamber on January 15, 1901 and was a member of the Commissions for Constitutional Law, Justice and Internal Administration. He also appeared in the chamber section leader of Prince Johannes zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein .

family

Gustav Mandry had been married to Marie Wörz (1844–1925), the daughter of the medical officer in Waldsee, since 1862. The marriage had three children. The firstborn son Gustav Mandry (1863–1949) studied medicine and became a surgeon. Most recently he was the secret medical councilor and chief physician of the municipal hospital in Heilbronn . The second-born son Karl Mandry (1866–1926) studied law and was Württemberg Minister of Justice and, most recently, President of the Higher Regional Court. The daughter Klara married the professor Franz Hofmeister (1867-1926), who was head of the surgical department of the Olga Hospital in Stuttgart.

Honors, ennobling

• 1865 Dr. jur. hc from the University of Tübingen
• 1875 Knight's Cross 1st Class, later Commander of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , which was associated with the personal nobility
• Commander first class of the Frederick Order
• On April 14, 1899, Mandry was awarded the title of Councilor of State

Works (selection)

• Copyright in literary and art works , 1867
• Common family property law excluding matrimonial property law , two volumes 1871 and 1876
• The civil law content of the imperial laws , 1878
• Since 1879 co-editor of the archive for civilist practice
• Württemberg private law , 1901
• The land registry in Württemberg In: Festgabe für A. Schäffle , 1901

literature

• Eduard Kern: Gustav von Mandry . In: Schwäbische Lebensbilder , Volume 4, W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1948, pp. 76–85
• Werner Schubert:  Mandry, Gustav von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 19 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 543 .