Erich Sello

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Erich Sello (born February 29, 1852 in Sanssouci , Potsdam , † December 9, 1912 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and criminal defense attorney.

Life

Erich Sello was a son of the court gardener Emil Sello . The family had a prominent position at the court and also had private relations with Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (later Emperor Friedrich III) and his wife Victoria .

He attended grammar school in Potsdam and began studying history and philosophy at the University of Jena in 1870 . During the Franco-Prussian War , Sello joined the Guard Jäger Battalion as a one-year volunteer and was later assigned to the Guard Rifle Battalion . During fights near Paris on October 30, 1870, Sello acquired the Iron Cross II. Class, which was presented to him personally by the Prussian Crown Prince. In December 1870 he suffered a severe wound on his left upper arm, which made him unfit for war. The intended military career was therefore no longer an option for Sello. In 1871 he resumed his studies in Jena and switched to the Berlin University on May 8, 1872 , where he studied law and passed the legal clerkship exam in 1873. After completing his doctorate, he completed his legal clerkship and, in 1878, the assessor examination.

Work as a lawyer and politician

In 1879 Sello became a lawyer in Berlin, in 1884 also a notary and was later given the title of Counselor . Sello has worked as a lawyer for numerous prominent personalities. Among other things, he defended the defendants in the Neustettiner synagogue fire trial in 1883/84 and the Berlin city commandant Kuno von Moltke 1907-1909 in the context of the Harden-Eulenburg affair against the newspaper publisher Harden . He later became friends with Maximilian Harden. Karl May asked Harden for assistance in a private lawsuit against Rudolf Lebius ; Harden turned to Sello, who worked successfully for May. In 1910 he defended Antonie von Schoenebeck, who was accused of inciting the murder of her husband in the Allenstein affair .

In addition to his work as a lawyer, Sello sat for the Liberal Association in the Reichstag from 1881 to 1884 . As a member of parliament, he represented the constituency of the Duchy of Anhalt 1 (Dessau - Zerbst).

He was also a lover of old works of art and books. His book collection was one of the most important private libraries in Berlin. He also wrote poems and other works himself. He became known for his work The Errors of Criminal Justice and Their Causes from 1911.

He died on December 9, 1912 in his Berlin apartment at 45 Lietzenburger Strasse.

family

Erich Sello married Lilli Remberg (1857–1944) in 1879, the daughter of a secret finance councilor and lecturer at the Chamber of Accounts . The marriage had three children. Georg Sello was a brother of Erich Sello.

Works

  • Legal marginal notes on the Kotze case. In: The border messengers. Journal for Politics and Literature 55 (1896) , no . 3, pp. 13-28 , 61-73 .
  • To the perjury trial against Moritz Lewy in Konitz Westpr. Defense speech by the lawyer Hugo Sonnenfeld in Berlin, with a foreword by the Justice Council Dr. Erich Sello in Berlin. (PDF; 3.6 MB) HS Hermann, Berlin 1901.
  • A late Strauss. Poems. Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin 1904. (In it: In the dock / The guard dragons at Mars-la-Tour )
  • The Oldenburg processes. In: Deutsche Juristenteitung , Vol. 10 (1905), pp. 186–196.
  • The Hau processes and their teachings. Also a contribution to the reform of the criminal procedure. Marquardt & Co., Berlin 1908.
  • Harvest day. Poems. Vita, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1910. (In it: The jump from the bridge . )
  • On the psychology of the cause célèbre. A presentation. F. Vahlen, Berlin 1910.
  • The fallacies of the criminal justice system and their causes. Decker, Berlin 1911. (Slightly edited new edition Hoffmann, Schifferstadt 2001, ISBN 3-929349-40-X . Table of contents )

literature

  • Sello, Erich. In: Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanach. 14th edition Hirth, Leipzig 1881, p. 219.
  • Max Silberstein: Counselor Dr. Erich Sello died on December 9th, 1912 [obituary]. In: Deutsche Juristenteitung 18 (1913), p. 81.
  • Gerd Hoffmann: The trial of the fire in the synagogue in Neustettin. Anti-Semitism in Germany at the end of the 19th century. With an introductory bibliography and biobibliographical notes on Ernst Henrici, Hermann Makower, Erich Sello. Hoffmann, Schifferstadt 1998, ISBN 3-929349-30-2 . (Includes a biography of Sello and a list of his writings on pp. 293–305.) ( Table of contents. )
  • Andreas Hentschel: Processes and Poetry. Excellent lawyer from the Potsdam court gardening dynasty. Erich Sello died 90 years ago. In: The Märkische. Weekly magazine of the Märkische Allgemeine from 7./8. December 2002, p. 2. ZDB -ID 1065461-6
  • Jürgen Seul: Erich Sello. A judiciary for Karl May. In: Communications of the Karl May Society. Volume 45, No. 176, June 2013, ISSN  0941-7842 , pp. 2–12. (On-line)

See also

Web links

Wikisource: Erich Sello  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The biographical information is based on the given literature, in particular the essay by Jürgen Seul.
  2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 285.
personal data
SURNAME Sello, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, defense attorney and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Sanssouci , Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1912
Place of death Berlin