Ferdinand Perels

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Ferdinand Perels

Ferdinand Perels (born June 30, 1836 in Berlin ; † December 24, 1903 there ) was a German military lawyer and maritime lawyer .

Life

Perels first studied science and then law in Berlin . As a baptized Jew , he entered the judicial service of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1857 and became an assessor in 1862. In 1863 he switched to the military justice service and became a garrison auditor in Spandau . In 1867 he joined the Navy of the North German Confederation and became a teacher for international law , maritime law and military law at the naval academy and school (Kiel) .

Since 1877 Admiralty Councilor and auditor of the Imperial Admiralty , in 1892 he was appointed Director of the Civil Department in the Reichsmarineamt and Prussia's deputy to the Federal Council of the German Empire .

In 1900 he held lectures as an honorary professor on international and German maritime law at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . He was retired as a real. Go Admiralty Council ; associated with it was the title of excellence .

Ferdinand Perels died in Berlin in 1903 at the age of 67. His grave is in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin-Westend .

Perels married Anna Volkmar (1849–1924), a daughter of the lawyer Leopold Volkmar . Her son Kurt Perels committed suicide in 1933. Another son, the historian Ernst Perels , died of exhaustion in 1945 a few days after the liberation from the Flossenbürg concentration camp . One of her four grandchildren, the lawyer Friedrich Justus Perels was a resistance fighter in February 1945 by the People's Court sentenced to death and two weeks before the end of the Third Reich from a detail of the Reich Security Main Office shot .

Ferdinand Perels' niece, Frida Becher von Rüdenhof (née Perels) (1874–1951) survived the Holocaust in Vienna as a doctor who was responsible for treating the Jewish population in Vienna.

Works

  • The international public maritime law of the present , Berlin 1882; 2nd edition 1903; Translated into French and Russian in 1884
  • Handbook of general public maritime law in the German Empire , Berlin 1884
  • The legal status of warships in foreign territorial waters , Berlin 1886
  • The Reichsbeamtengesetz ( Reichsbeamtengesetz , written together with Spilling), Berlin 1890; 2nd edition 1906
  • Behavior of seagoing ships in invisible weather according to the international law of the sea , Berlin 1898

Under Perels' direction appeared:

  • The general public maritime law in the German Empire, collections of laws and ordinances ... , Berlin 1901, with additions

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 478.
  2. ^ Walter Mentzel: Frida Becher von Rüdenhof (1874–1951) - doctor - women's rights activist - victims of Nazi persecution. In: VanSwietenBlog, University Library Medical University of Vienna, June 4, 2020. Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Perels, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military lawyer and maritime lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1903
Place of death Berlin