Alfred Dominicus Pauli

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Alfred Domenicus Pauli

Alfred Dominicus Pauli (born August 7, 1827 in Lübeck , † November 20, 1915 in Bremen ) was a lawyer , senator and mayor of the city of Bremen.

biography

Pauli was the son of the legal historian Carl Wilhelm Pauli , judge at the Higher Appeal Court of the four Free Cities in Lübeck. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school in Easter 1846. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Jena , in Berlin and at the University of Göttingen . During his studies in 1846 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar . He obtained his doctorate in 1852. jur. In the meantime in 1848 he was secretary to a governor in Lübeck. In 1853 he became a consultant (legal advisor) to the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and in 1855 court secretary at the criminal court in Bremen. He commented on Bremen's criminal law and, in 1863, helped draft a Bremen code of criminal procedure . In 1864 he became a public prosecutor and in 1868 a judge.

Pauli had been a member of the Bremen citizenship and secretary of the citizenship since 1854 .

In 1872 he became a senator in Bremen . He was represented in several deputations and commissions, among others for the police, military, prison, school and judicial systems. He led the negotiations with the Bremen Chamber of Commerce , chaired the Commission for Imperial and Foreign Affairs and represented Bremen at the Federal Council . In trade and customs matters he skilfully pursued Bremen's interests in the integration into the North German Confederation and the German Empire .

Between 1882 and 1918, the mayors were elected by the Senate from among its members for one calendar year each, but were able to exercise their office several times. Pauli was Bremen's mayor seven times in 1891, 1896, 1898, 1903, 1905, 1908 and 1910, each for one year . The conservative politician retired in 1910.

From 1875 Pauli was chairman of the Rohland Foundation (named after the merchant Julius Rohland), which was supposed to "beautify the city of Bremen" and from 1892 chairman of the commission for the preservation of art and cultural historical monuments , a forerunner of monument preservation in Bremen . In 1909, also at his suggestion, a law for the protection of architectural monuments was passed in Bremen.

The art historian and director of the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Hamburger Kunsthalle Gustav Pauli as well as the diplomat Adolf Pauli were his sons.

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Individual evidence

  1. Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907): Digitalisat , no. 439