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Christian Ludwig Runde (born April 26, 1773 in Kassel , † May 25, 1849 in Oldenburg ) was a German lawyer and president of the Oldenburg Court of Appeal .

biography

Runde came from a family of craftsmen and burghers who have been living in Wernigerode since the 16th century , and was the eldest son of the Göttingen lawyer and professor Justus Friedrich Runde (May 27, 1741 - February 28, 1807) and his first wife Luise nee. Warrior († December 2, 1789).

After attending the Lyceum in Kassel and the grammar school in Göttingen, he studied law and history at the University of Göttingen from 1791 to 1795 . In May 1795 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the interim economy on German farms, which he published in an expanded version the following year. He then became a private lecturer in Göttingen, where he gave lectures on Roman and German law , canon law , Prussian land law and commercial law . In November 1799 he received the post of state archivist in Oldenburg. In addition to this activity, Runde became a member of the Literary Society as early as 1800 and took on a number of additional tasks. Gradually he switched to the judicial and administrative service of the country . In 1801 he became assessor at the government chancellery and member of the consistory , two years later he was also a member of the commission for the preservation of sovereign sovereignty over the Roman Catholic Church . In July 1803 he took over the offices of Vechta and Cloppenburg for Oldenburg together with the budget councilor Johann Conrad Georg as government commissioner and in 1804 belonged to a commission for the settlement of border disputes with Bremen . In 1806 he was promoted to the chancellery and government councilor. In addition, he was scientifically and journalistically active and published a number of historical and legal-historical articles in the sheets mixed content , worked on the Oldenburg magazine founded by Gerhard Anton von Halem and with this published a collection of the most important pieces of acts on the latest contemporary history, but they already did was discontinued after the first year. In 1805 the work appeared on the legal theory of body breeding or the elderly on German farms .

After the annexation of Oldenburg in the French Empire Round could be dismissed from the civil service in February 1811 and took over together with the Councilor Christoph Friedrich Mentz and the chamberlain Wilhelm Ernst of Beaulieu-Marconnay representing the interests of the Russian exile situated Duke Peter I and the management of his private wealth. From these assets they organized the pension payments , since the actual pension funds had been confiscated by the French, which made Runde suspicious of the French occupiers and had to leave the country. He received the order to go to Eutin and there became a member of the government for the Principality of Lübeck , which had not been occupied by the French. In November 1812 he turned down a professorship in Göttingen because Peter I gave him firm assurance that he would be employed in Oldenburg in the future. After the duke's return, he became a member of the provisional government commission in January 1814, which, as the highest central authority of the duchy, was to oversee the reorganization of the administration. In September 1814 he was appointed deputy director and in March 1817 director of the judiciary and the consistory. He was a member of the drafting committee for the new Criminal Code , which came into force in 1814, and advocated the creation of the prosecutor's office . Runde supported the reform of the criminal justice system and his proposals formed the basis for the development of the judicial system and the organization of the administration of justice. In addition, he played an important role in regulating the position of the Catholic Church and advocated the establishment of an Oldenburg vicariate from an early age .

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the transfer of the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst to the house of the Gottorf Oldenburgs , in 1823 he published a short Oldenburg Chronicle , which for the period up to 1731 was based on Halem's history of the Duchy of Oldenburg and from then on based on materials and own knowledge. With this work, Runde wanted to give a sober overview of the development of the country and thus describe and historically explain "the development of our current legal status". On December 31, 1829, he was appointed President of the Higher Appeal Court and given wide, personally tailored powers. In 1841 he published a comprehensive study on the property law of the spouses, which later formed the basis for the relevant Oldenburg legislation. Since the beginning of the 1840s he advocated the granting of a land-class constitution , since he was convinced that a revolutionary development could only be avoided through timely concessions.

As a more conservative reform , Runde belonged to the small leadership group of Oldenburg officials who had a decisive influence on the development of the country for decades. As a close colleague of Peter I, he exercised a decisive influence on the reorganization of the judiciary of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg after 1814 and, as President of the Higher Appeal Court, was practically appointed Minister of Justice .

family

Runde had been married to Johanna Helene Antonie born on August 28, 1801. Loder (May 18, 1780 - Mar 20 1844), the daughter of the Jena Professor Ferdinand Christian Loder (1753-1832) and his first wife Wilhelmine born Röderer. Of the couple's six children, Justus Friedrich (1809–1881) later became President of the Upper Church Council.
The Runde family lived in Oldenburg since 1806 at Gartenstrasse 1. The house was demolished in 1961.

Works (selection)

  • Treatise of the legal theory of the interim economy on German farms according to common and special rights . Goettingen. 1796 & 1832.
  • The legal doctrine of body breeding or the elderly on German farms . 2 vols. Oldenburg. 1805.
  • Together with Gerhard Anton von Halem (Ed.): Collection of the most important pieces of files on the latest contemporary history together with a chronological overview of the strangest events . Oldenburg. 1807.
  • Legal principles about the distribution of the billing burden . Oldenburg. 1808.
  • Brief Oldenburg Chronicle . Oldenburg '. 1823, 1831, 1862. Reprint Leer. 1974. Osnabrück. 1980.
  • Patriotic fantasies of a lawyer . Oldenburg. 1836.
  • German matrimonial property law . Oldenburg. 1841.
  • Common law for Germany . Oldenburg. 1845.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Round, Christian Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and President of the Oldenburg Higher Appeal Court
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1849
Place of death Oldenburg