Albert Schmid (lawyer)

Albert Schmid (born July 18, 1812 in Leinde , † November 14, 1891 in Braunschweig ) was a German lawyer and the first president of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court .

Life

Albert Schmid's father Friedrich Christian Ernst Schmid was a pastor in Leinde . Albert Schmid joined the revolutionary ideas of the Vormärz period early on. As a schoolboy he came into contact with the national freedom ideas of the gymnastics movement around gymnastics father Jahn . In 1828 he founded a gymnastics community with classmates in Wolfenbüttel .

In 1830 he enrolled for law studies at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . There he joined the Old Göttingen fraternity , which had been banned since 1819, but tolerated ; In 1830 he was also a member of the Fäßlinaner Heidelberg fraternity , in 1831 the old Heidelberg fraternity Franconia and in 1832 the Jenaische fraternity / Germania . In 1831 he was one of the students who stormed the town hall armed as part of the so-called Göttingen Revolution . The ringleader Dr. He helped von Rauschenplatt to escape and therefore had to leave the city as well. He wanted to continue his studies in Heidelberg . Because of his participation in the Hambach Festival in May 1832, his academic citizenship was revoked. Schmid then went to Jena , where he joined the Germania fraternity and was decidedly revolutionary. After he had committed assaults against the pedals of the university, he was punished with permanent relegation and had to move to Kiel . There he was arrested on November 6, 1833 and detained in Eisenach . After one and a half years last countries examination procedures he was charged with high treason to one year imprisonment sentenced.

After his release in July 1836, he was pardoned and was able to complete his studies. Schmid obtained his doctorate in law in 1839. He was admitted to the first state examination in 1840. He passed his second state examination in 1846 and then worked at the office in Seesen . He was then an assessor at the Wolfenbüttel district court until 1848 . In 1848 he ran unsuccessfully in the election to the Frankfurt National Assembly . At that time he was a district assessor in Schöningen , from 1850 he was a district judge . In 1851 he became a public prosecutor in Holzminden . After the third state examination in 1854, he was elected by the state assembly to the senior judge in Wolfenbüttel.

In addition to his legal work, he was elected to the extraordinary state parliaments in 1856 and 1871. In 1867 he was elected to the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation as a member of the constituency of Braunschweig 3 ( Holzminden - Gandersheim ) . Here he joined the faction of the National Liberal Party and supported Bismarck's ideas of a German federal state.

In 1875 Schmid was appointed Vice President of the Supreme Court. After the so-called Reich Justice Laws of 1879 came into force, the higher court was replaced by the higher regional court, which had its seat in Braunschweig. Albert Schmid was appointed first President of the Higher Regional Court on October 1, 1879. In this function he was also a member of the five-member Regency Council, which, after the childless death of Duke Wilhelm in 1884, took over the leadership of the Duchy of Braunschweig until the appointment of Prince Albrecht of Prussia in 1885.

When he died on November 14, 1891, Albert Schmid was still in office as President of the Higher Regional Court.

literature

Wolfgang Zschachlitz: Dr. Albert Schmid (1812-1892). In: Edgar Isermann, Michael Schlüter (ed.): Justice and Lawyers in Braunschweig 1879-2004. Meyer, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-926701-62-5 , p. 131ff.
Wolfgang Zschachlitz: From high traitor to chief president. Albert Schmid, the first president of the higher regional court. In: Rudolf Wassermann (Ed.): Justice in the course of time. Festschrift of the OLG Braunschweig. Meyer, Braunschweig 1989, ISBN 3-926701-07-2 , p. 328ff.

Web links

Albert Schmid in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 259-260.
↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 292, short biography p. 463.
^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 280.

personal data
SURNAME	Schmid, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 18, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leinde
DATE OF DEATH	November 14, 1891
Place of death	Braunschweig

[1] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 259-260.

[2] Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 292, short biography p. 463.

[3] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 280.