Adolf Langfeld

Adolf Langfeld (1854–1939)

Ferdinand Helmuth August Wilhelm Adolf Langfeld (born August 27, 1854 in Rostock , † April 4, 1939 in Schwerin ) was a German lawyer and politician and from 1914 to 1918 Minister of State of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Life

Adolf Langfeld came from the second (Adolfschen) branch of his family and was the second of four sons of the Rostock businessman and senator (Theodor Karl Johann) Adolf Langfeld (1821–1860) and his wife Julie (Johanna Friederike), née. Josephi (1827-1884) born. He studied law in Leipzig, Heidelberg and Rostock. In Heidelberg, Langfeld joined the Leonensia student association in the summer semester of 1873 . After passing the Advoctur exam, he worked as a lawyer in Rostock and at the same time as an auditor at the Toitenwinkel Grand Ducal Office . Almost immediately after the examination, he was at the University of Rostock to Dr. iur. PhD. This was possible because his thesis was rated as a dissertation due to its quality.

Adolf Langfeld as a student

The next station in his professional career was the public prosecutor's office at the Schwerin regional court , where he found employment as a public prosecutor's assistant. Further positions in the judiciary of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin followed. He served as a district judge in Gadebusch and was a judge at the Güstrow district court .

Adolf Langfeld served as a lecturing councilor in the Ministry of Justice, was appointed deputy member of the Federal Council in Berlin and used in matters of the grand ducal house. Another station in life was that of the President of the Schwerin Regional Court . He accompanied the Hereditary Grand Duke Friedrich Franz (later Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV ) as a tutor during his law studies in Bonn.

The young Grand Duke appointed him Minister of Justice and in 1914 Minister of State (Prime Minister) of the Grand Duchy. He held this office until the outbreak of the November Revolution in 1918. He then retired.

From 1921 to 1933 Langfeld was then president of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg . In addition, he was a member from 1882 and from July 1, 1914 to February 1935 President (from 1934: club leader) of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . In the legal dispute over sovereign rights in the Bay of Lübeck before the State Court of Justice for the German Reich ( Lübeck Bay case ), he wrote two legal opinions for the state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1930 his autobiography "Mein Leben" appeared, which was published twice.

Honors

House order of the Wendish Crown , Grand Cross with the crown in gold
Prussian Order of the Crown , 2nd class with star
Order of Orange-Nassau , Grand Cross
Dannebrogorden , Grand Cross
Order of Henry the Lion , Grand Cross
Reussian Cross of Honor , 1st class with the crown
Red Cross Medal , 2nd and 3rd class
Mecklenburg-Schwerin Military Merit Cross
Iron Cross , 2nd class
Cross of Merit for War Aid
Decoration of honor of the German Red Cross , 2nd class
Memorial medal Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III.
Prussian Landwehr - Long Service Award 2nd class
Dutch wedding commemorative medal 1901
Honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Rostock, June 1926
Awarded the honorary title of Excellence , April 1907

Works

The doctrine of the right of retention: according to common law. Rostock 1886 (dissertation).
Mecklenburg implementation regulations for the German Civil Code. Leipzig 1899.
On the history of the constitutional reform in Mecklenburg since 1848 . In: Mecklenburg during the war. Mecklenburgische Zeitung / Bärensprungsche Druckerei, Schwerin 1918, pp. 30–36.
Mecklenburg and the new imperial reform. In: Mecklenburger Nachrichten. January 11th and 12th, 1919.
Is Mecklenburg's state annexation to Prussia justified? In: Rostocker Anzeiger. Volume 46, No. 41, February 18, 1926. p. 1.
Across the borders of the sovereignty of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Lübeck in the Lübeck Bay. Legal opinion . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 90, Schwerin 1926, pp. 1-14. ( Digitized version ).
Beyond the borders of state sovereignty in the Travemünde Bay. Second opinion . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 90, Schwerin 1926, pp. 15-24. ( Digitized version ).
My life. Memories of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Minister D. Dr. Adolf Langfeld . In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte . Vol. 6 (1930), 1, pp. 16-18. ( Digital copy ; PDF; 1.3 MB).

literature

Anke John: Langfeld, Adolf Ferdinand Helmut August Wilhelm . In: Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg . Vol. 5. Lübeck, 2009. ISBN 978-3-7950-3746-8 . Pp. 197-200.
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5681 .

Web links

Literature by and about Adolf Langfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature about Adolf Langfeld in the state bibliography MV
Works by Adolf Langfeld in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

↑ The ranking of the baptismal names as (Ferdinand Helmuth August Wilhelm) Adolf Langfeld follows the family genealogy that was published during Langfeld's lifetime (cf. German Gender Book 1928, pp. 344–364). In the literature, the sequence of names preceded by the first name Adolf (Ferdinand Helmut August Wilhelm) Langfeld is widespread , but this is probably due to an error.
^ Adolf Langfeld + . [Obituary]. In: Mecklenburgische Zeitung . Schwerin, April 5, 1939. p. 2; at GREWOLLS (erroneous): August 4, 1939
^ Langfeldt, Langfeld . In: German gender book . Vol. 57 [= Mecklenburg gender book; Vol. 1]. Görlitz, 1928. pp. 344–364, here p. 353 ff.
↑ See the entry of Adolf Langfeld's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

^ Adolf Langfeld: My Life: Memories of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Minister of State i. RD Dr. Adolf Langfeld . Bärensprung, Schwerin 1930, p. 50-52 .

^ Announcement about his resignation as head of the association In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity. Vol. 99, Schwerin 1935, p. 277.

personal data
SURNAME	Langfeld, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Langfeld, Adolf Ferdinand Helmut August Wilhelm (full name); Langfeld, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, politician and Minister of State
DATE OF BIRTH	August 27, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rostock
DATE OF DEATH	April 4, 1939
Place of death	Schwerin

[1] The ranking of the baptismal names as (Ferdinand Helmuth August Wilhelm) Adolf Langfeld follows the family genealogy that was published during Langfeld's lifetime (cf. German Gender Book 1928, pp. 344–364). In the literature, the sequence of names preceded by the first name Adolf (Ferdinand Helmut August Wilhelm) Langfeld is widespread , but this is probably due to an error.

[2] Adolf Langfeld + . [Obituary]. In: Mecklenburgische Zeitung . Schwerin, April 5, 1939. p. 2; at GREWOLLS (erroneous): August 4, 1939

[3] Langfeldt, Langfeld . In: German gender book . Vol. 57 [= Mecklenburg gender book; Vol. 1]. Görlitz, 1928. pp. 344–364, here p. 353 ff.

[4] See the entry of Adolf Langfeld's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

[5] Adolf Langfeld: My Life: Memories of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Minister of State i. RD Dr. Adolf Langfeld . Bärensprung, Schwerin 1930, p. 50-52 .

[6] Announcement about his resignation as head of the association In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity. Vol. 99, Schwerin 1935, p. 277.