August Drechsler

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August Drechsler
August Drechsler

August Drechsler (born March 14, 1821 in Stavenhagen , Mecklenburg , † August 10, 1897 in Harzburg ) was a German judge and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

Drechsler came from a Mecklenburg legal family. His father was an official auditor in Goldberg (Mecklenburg) , later in Wredenhagen based in Röbel / Müritz , and an official administrator in Lübz .

In 1838 he passed the Abitur exams at the Gymnasium Fridericianum in Schwerin and then studied law at the University of Rostock and the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg . In 1840 he became active in the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . After becoming a Dr. iur. After receiving his doctorate , he settled in Parchim as a lawyer and notary . During the revolution in Mecklenburg (1848) , Drechsler was elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly for the 5th constituency of Parchim in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at the age of 27 . The Parchim city chronicler Karl Augustin reported on the election :

"On April 16, 1848, the government ordinance on primary elections was read from the pulpit. A commission appointed the 14 primary electors allotted to Parchim. They cast their vote on April 22nd with the primary voters from Goldberg, Plau, Neustadt, Grabow and the rural communities, a total of 131 in the Parchim Georgenkirche from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Higher Appeal Judge Friedrich Kierulff and Dr. jur. August Drechsler, both from Rostock. Since Kierulff refused, the representation of the Parchimer district lay to the Dr. Drechsler alone whether. Kierulff ran at the same time in Rostock and accepted the election there. "

- Karl Augustin

Drechsler was a member of the National Assembly from May 29, 1848 to April 30, 1849 and was a member of the Left Center (" Württemberger Hof "). As a feared heckler, he often raised legal objections, particularly during the fundamental rights discussion.

From 1851 to 1864 he was one of the two mayors of Parchim alongside Franz Floerke. He was Master of the Chair of the Masonic Lodge Friderica Ludovica for Loyalty . In 1864 he was appointed to the Higher Appeal Court of the four Free Cities in Lübeck . Here he was involved in the drafting of the rules of procedure for private law . In 1870 he became Vice President of the Reich Higher Commercial Court in Leipzig and later Senate President of the 1st Civil Senate at the Reich Court in Leipzig. In 1897 he retired. He played a decisive role in the case law against contracts for differences .

He was married to a sister of the canonist Friedrich Maassen .

Honors

literature

  • Jürgen Borchert : Off to Frankfurt: Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania parliamentarians as members of the Paulskirche 1848/49 , State Center for Political Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin 1998, ISBN 3-931185-44-3 .
  • Egbert Weiß : Corps students in the Paulskirche . Once and Now , special issue 1990, p. 19.

Web links

  • Obituary in the German legal journal, vol. 2 (1897) p. 338 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Carl Wex: On the history of the Schwerin school of learning. A reference to the three-hundred-year anniversary to be celebrated on August 4, 1853, Schwerin 1853, p. 85
  2. ↑ See the entries by August Drechsler in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 112 , 481
  4. ↑ Freemaurer-Zeitung: Handschrift für Brüder 1904.08.13 R.58 Nr33 ( online ), p. 263.
  5. ↑ Eduard Müller : The first twenty-five years of the Reichsgericht . Special issue of the Saxon Archives for German Civil Law on the 25th anniversary of the highest German court of justice, p. 43 f.
  6. ^ Nikolaus Grass:  Maaßen, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 603 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Wood turner, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drechsler, Carl August Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Stavenhagen
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1897
Place of death Harzburg