Ernst Friedrich Sieveking

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Ernst Friedrich Sieveking, 1905

Ernst Friedrich Sieveking (born June 24, 1836 in Hamburg ; † November 13, 1909 there ) was a German lawyer , Hamburg senator and president of the higher regional court.

Life

Tomb at the Ohlsdorf cemetery

Ernst Friedrich Sieveking came from the old Hamburg merchant and lawyer family Sieveking . His father Friedrich Sieveking (1798–1872) was first mayor of Hamburg ; his grandfather Georg Heinrich Sieveking (1751–1799) was one of the well-known Enlightenmentists of his time.

Ernst Friedrich Sieveking studied law in Göttingen . During this time he joined the Brunsviga Göttingen fraternity . In 1857, at the age of 21, he took part in a delegation of Hamburg merchants to Stockholm , which was supposed to lead loan negotiations there against the backdrop of the global economic crisis. On June 25, 1858 Sieveking was registered as a lawyer in Hamburg. As a lawyer he belonged to the law firm Esche Schümann Commichau founded by Johann Carl Knauth until 1877 and primarily dealt with commercial and maritime law cases. In 1857 Sieveking accepted the future senator and mayor Johann Heinrich Burchard and Otto Wachsmuth into his office. In 1874 he was elected to the Hamburg parliament and on May 23, 1877, to succeed the late Hermann Goßler , to the Hamburg Senate . In 1879 Sieveking resigned from the Senate to become President of the newly founded Hanseatic Higher Regional Court . Formally, this violated the Hamburg Constitution of the time, according to which a senator had to remain in office for at least six years. The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court was the joint higher appeal court for the Free Imperial Cities of Bremen , Hamburg and Lübeck . It was newly founded as the successor to the Lübeck Higher Appeal Court of the Four Free Cities . Sieveking remained president of the court until his death in 1909.

As a lawyer, Sieveking mainly dealt with maritime law ; from 1889 he was president of the international conferences on the law of the sea.

Sieveking was married to Olga Wilhelmine Amsinck . His daughter Alice (1866–1949) married the entrepreneur Eduard Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer , his daughter Olga (1881–1965) married the future mayor of Hamburg, Rudolf Petersen .

souvenir

Sieveking bust at Hamburg City Hall

The square in front of the Hamburg Higher Regional Court, in the middle of the building ensemble of several courts known as the Hamburg Justice Forum , has been called Sievekingplatz in his honor since 1912 . In the vestibule of the Higher Regional Court, a bust commemorates the first president. In addition, the figure of the judge on the facade of Hamburg City Hall bears features in his honor of Sieveking.

literature

  • German Gender Book Volume 142; Hamburg 11, Limburg an der Lahn 1966, p. 435.
  • Hans Joachim Schröder: Sieveking, Ernst Friedrich , in: Hamburgische Biographie . Vol. 6, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , pp. 314-315.
  • Hans Joachim Schröder: Ernst Friedrich Sieveking. First President of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court , Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-937816-70-8
the like in full text (PDF; 3.7 MB)

Web links

Commons : Ernst Friedrich Sieveking  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 437.
  2. ↑ Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg lawyers from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 356
  3. ^ Genealogy Wilhelmine Amsinck
personal data
SURNAME Sieveking, Ernst Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Hamburg Senator and President of the Higher Regional Court
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1909
Place of death Hamburg