Alexander Achilles

Alexander Achilles

Alexander Achilles (* 6. August 1833 in Werben (Elbe) , † 21st October 1900 in Berlin ) was a German judge and Reichsgerichtsrat .

Life

Achilles studied law in Halle an der Saale . In 1853 he became a member of the Landsmannschaft Neoborussia Halle, which later became the Corps Neoborussia Halle . As an inactive he moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . After he had passed the First Legal Examination at the Court of Appeal , he entered the Prussian judicial service in 1855. He was sworn in on May 23, 1856. Achilles was temporarily in Erfurt as an auscultator. He was appointed assessor in 1866 and employed as city judge (1874 city judge) in Berlin in 1867.

In 1874 he was an unskilled worker in the first commission for the creation of the civil code (BGB). In May 1882 he was appointed higher regional judge at the higher regional court in Celle , but did not take up the position because of the Berlin obligations. In 1884 he was a full member of the second BGB commission and, as commissioner for the administration of justice, had significant influence on the codification of property law. On October 1, 1891, Achilles was appointed Imperial Judge. Whether he ever officiated as such has not been established. From January 1, 1892, he was officially assigned to the 5th Civil Senate. In 1895 he retired. Gottlieb Planck had won him over to work on the six-volume BGB commentary (Berlin 1897).

Honors

Incomplete list

• Dr. jur. hc of the Law Faculty of the University of Leipzig (1897)

Works

• The Prussian Laws on Real Estate and Mortgage Law of May 5, 1872 (Berlin 1873)
• Minutes of the commission for the second reading of the draft Civil Code . Guttentag, Berlin 1897 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
  • 1. General Part and Law of Obligations Section I, Section II Tit. I. 1897
  • 2. Law of Obligations Section II, Tit. 2 - 20, Section III, IV. 1898
  • 3. Property law. 1899
  • 4. Family law. 1897
  • 5. Inheritance law. 1899
  • 6. application of foreign laws; Draft II of the Civil Code; Revision; Draft introductory law; Draft of a law concerning changes to the Courts Constitution Act [etc. 1899]
  • 7. Register. 1899
• Civil Code and Youth Welfare Act (Berlin 1901)
• Commentary on the Civil Code (named "Achilles Greiff" after its co-author)

literature

• Bernhard Sommerlad : Alexander Georg Achilles Neoborussiae Halle . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research , Vol. 9 (1964), pp. 149–152.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alexander Achilles in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary in the DJZ 1900, p. 474 as a digital copy at the MPIER .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 54 , 44.
2. ^ Adolf Lobe: Fifty Years of the Imperial Court . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin Leipzig 1929, p. 361.