Carl Wilhelm Asher

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Carl Wilhelm Asher (born November 30, 1798 in Altona ; † September 29, 1864 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and publicist .

Life

Asher visited the Johanneum , studied from 1817 to 1820 law in Göttingen, Berlin and Bonn, where he graduated on June 17, 1820 as the first student ever in both rights and on December 8, 1820 Hamburg as a lawyer admitted. In 1820 he became a member of the Old Bonn Burschenschaft / general public in Bonn . Asher stayed on as a lawyer until 1834, but was editor of the Neue Zeitung in 1832/33 . In 1834 he founded the Hamburg Journal for Politics, Commerce and Commercial Law and was also appointed as a criminal actuary (examining magistrate), an office he held until 1843. From 1835 he worked as a secretary in the railway planning of various Hamburg committees. 1843–51 he represented the Hamburg Senate at the management of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway Company in Berlin. In 1861 he became Senate Secretary in Hamburg, but died three years later.

Asher was a well-educated man who worked as a writer in the field of criminal law, especially the prison system, the poor, commercial science, economics and statistics. Due to his familiarity with the literature of France, Great Britain and North America in these fields, he was able to make some major achievements abroad accessible to German experts. He was associated with Cobden , Prince-Smith and David. As a representative of Lübeck and Hamburg he took part in all statistical congresses, most recently in the one in Berlin in 1863. At the statistical congress in London, he presided over the department for crime. He was an honorary member of many learned societies and co-founder of the Association for Hamburg Statistics [1853], corresponding member of the Central Statistical Commission of Belgium and the Statistical Societies in Frankfurt a. M. and in London.

In 1824 he was accepted into the Hamburg Freemason Lodge Absalom , of which he was Master of the Chair from 1842 to 1843; From 1852 to 1859 the master of the chair of the Lodge Ferdinand zum Felsen was there. The Grand Lodge of Hamburg made him an honorary member.

family

Family of Carl Wilhelm Asher

Asher comes from a Jewish family who converted in 1810. His parents were Ludewig Matthias Asher (* 1769 in Lübben ), businessman and banker in Hamburg, and Anna Mariane Hedwig Philipson (* around 1772 in Altona). This is a sister of Johann Jacob Martin Philippi , granddaughter of Alexander David .

On September 2, 1836, he married Bertha Henriette vd Hude (1809–1843), daughter of Bernhard Heinrich von der Hude (1768–1828), pastor at the Marienkirche in Lübeck, and Margaretha Henriette Heyn. Their son was Heinrich Asher , a notary in Hamburg. His brother was the painter Louis Asher , his granddaughter the portrait painter Helene von der Leyen . The daughter Bertha Henriette (1842–1926) married the gynecologist Rudolph Dohrn .

Publications

He wrote u. a. on commercial law, international law of the sea, criminal law, police, prison and poor affairs, crime statistics, trade, railway and shipping policy. His numerous writings up to the year 1851 are contained in the Hamburg Writer's Lexicon, Vol. IS 102 ff. a .:

  • "Communications about commercial law cases from the Engl. Practice "in" New archive f. Commercial Law "Bd. IS 214
  • “On the doctrine of the liability of the ship owner for liabilities resting on the ship”, in “Neues Archiv f. Commercial Law "Bd. IS 395
  • Translations of Tooke "History of prices"
  • Translations by Adam Smith, "On the wealth of nations"

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg lawyers from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 324.
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 31.
  3. ^ Dietrich Korth: Dohrn, Rudolph . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 47.
personal data
SURNAME Asher, Carl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1864
Place of death Hamburg