Carl Hagens

Carl Hagens , also Karl Hagens , from 1910 von Hagens (born January 16, 1838 in Großglogau , Silesia, † September 18, 1924 in Berlin) was a German lawyer. From 1890 to 1910 he was President of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main .

Life and work

Carl Hagens, son of a higher appeals court and judicial councilor, started school at the age of three with his brother Franz Hagens , who was three years older , and passed the Abitur at the age of 15 in Paderborn . The brothers studied law together in Bonn, Göttingen - where they joined the Hannovera fraternity - and Berlin. At the age of only 18, Carl Hagens passed the trainee exam with the grade “very good”. At the age of twenty-three he passed the second state examination in law, also with the grade “very good”.

After the usual time as a court assessor in the district of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce, he became a city and district judge in Magdeburg in 1867. A year later he was transferred to the Berlin city court, where he was appointed city judge in 1874. When a “judicial system” department was set up at the Reich Chancellery in 1875, Carl Hagens resigned from the Prussian judicial service and was appointed to the government council in accordance with the designation at the time “permanent assistant”. He kept this task after there was a Reich Justice Office from 1877, i. H. an independent Reich Ministry of Justice, and the justice sector was spun off from the Reich Chancellery. He was promoted to the Secret Upper Government Council and lecturing council and headed a department. In addition to providing ministerial support for the first draft of a civil code , which was published in 1888, he also worked on the basis for the bankruptcy code , which was only replaced by the bankruptcy code in 1999 , as well as for sub-areas of cooperative, stock corporation and patent law.

In 1890 Carl Hagens was appointed President of the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court. Thanks to his diverse efforts, in the geographically very fragmented district of the OLG, many innovations in the organization of the judiciary, such as the introduction of the land register, the establishment of local courts and the establishment of juvenile courts, took place without great difficulty. The first session of a juvenile court in Germany took place in Frankfurt am Main in January 1908.

Before the celebrations for his fiftieth anniversary in office, he asked all guests to refrain from personal gifts and to donate an amount of money that was to serve as the basis for the Dr. Carl Hagens Foundation, which still exists today, whose purpose is to “support middle and lower Judicial officers as well as paralegals and their widows and orphans in the event of a special need ”.

In 1907 he was appointed crown syndic and at the same time a member of the “highest trust” in the Prussian mansion . In 1909 he was given the simple hereditary title of nobility (von Hagens). On December 1, 1910, he was granted the requested release. He was - as the Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung 1910, p. 1354 noted - after more than fifty-four years of office, he was not even 73 years old and yet the longest-serving Prussian OLG president.

He spent his retirement in Berlin-Nikolassee. In 1913 he became a member of the lawless society in Berlin, a gentlemen's club founded in 1809 and still in existence today, which is committed to maintaining tradition, culture and science. In the Prussian mansion, soon after the outbreak of the First World War, he campaigned for a legal regulation according to which law students and trainee lawyers who participated in the war should receive specially promoted and thus shortened training after the end of the war.

His son was Walter von Hagens .

Honors

• 1879: Dr. hc from the Law Faculty of the University of Leipzig
• 1891: Chairman of the Legal Society in Frankfurt am Main
• 1891: Awarded the Royal Crown Order II. Class with the star
• 1894: Awarded the character of Real Secret Higher Justice Council with the rank of First Class Council
• 1906: Appointed Real Secret Council with the title of Excellency
• Festschrift of the Legal Society of Frankfurt am Main to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the office of the Royal Higher Regional Court President Dr. jur. hc Carl Hagens, Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der Alfred Neumannschen Buchhandlung, 1906.
• 1909: Award of the Royal Crown Order, 1st class
• 1910: Elevation to hereditary nobility

Fonts

• The laws on the abbreviation of preparatory service in the judiciary and in the administration for combatants. In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung. Volume 22 (1917), No. 3/4, Col. 166–170.
• On judicial reform. In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung. Volume 22 (1917), No. 3/4, Col. 451–457.

literature

• Changes in the presidia of the Prussian higher regional courts. In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung. XV. Year (1910) No. 22, Col. 1341 f.
• R. Marsson: Carl v. Hagen †. In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung. 29th year (1924) No. 19/20, Col. 796 f.
• Rudolf Morsey : The highest imperial administration under Bismarck 1867-1890. Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster Westfalen 1957, p. 75 f. and 164.
• Erhard Zimmer: The history of the higher regional court in Frankfurt am Main. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-7829-0174-6 , p. 137 ff.
• Hans Schulte-Nölke: The Reich Justice Office and the emergence of the civil code. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-465-02696-9 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Universitätsverlag C. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 224 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity Hannovera Göttingen, 1848–1998 , Düsseldorf 1998, page 22
2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 224 ff.
3. ↑ Ordinance on the classification of Reichsbeamten from 1873. In: Wikisource
4. ↑ Dr. Carl Hagens Foundation. on: frankfurt.de