Franz von Holtzendorff (lawyer)

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Franz von Holtzendorff. Illustration from the magazine "Die Gartenlaube" (1875).

Franz von Holtzendorff (born October 14, 1829 in Vietmannsdorf ( Uckermark ), † February 4, 1889 in Munich ) was a German criminal lawyer and university professor .

Life

Franz von Holtzendorff, son of the liberal politician and publicist Franz von Holtzendorff , studied law in Berlin , Bonn and Heidelberg . In Bonn he had been a member of the Corps Hansea since 1850 .

After graduation, he devoted himself to the practice court until he in 1857 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University habilitated and lecturer was. In Berlin he received 1861 an extraordinary professor. In 1872 he accepted a call to Munich for a full professorship . His efforts were primarily directed towards reforming the prison and penal system. In addition, he made extensive study trips across Europe.

He turned against the prison system that is common in Prussia, as can be seen from the related works The Brothers of the Rough House (Berlin 1861) and The Order of Brothers of the Rough House and its Work in Prisons (1st and 2nd ed., Berlin 1862 ) can be found. His relationship with Hamburg was also due to his marriage to Pauline Binder (1821–1912), a daughter of the Hamburg mayor Nicolaus Binder . Their children were Richard von Holtzendorff (1867–1920) and Martha von Holtzendorff (1869–1919).

He founded the German Jurists' Day and was committed to the Protestant Day and the better social position of women. Holtzendorff was the first chairman of the Lette Society in Berlin from 1868 to 1872 . He also became generally known for his defense of Count Harry von Arnim (1874).

From 1861 to 1873 Holtzendorff published the Allgemeine Deutsche Strafrechtszeitung , since 1866 with Virchow the collection of generally understandable scientific lectures , since 1871 the yearbook for legislation, administration and justice of the German Reich , since 1872 with Wilhelm Oncken the time and disputes . From 1870 he published the Encyclopedia of Jurisprudence , the most comprehensive overall presentation of German jurisprudence of its time.

The since 1910 named after Franz von Holtzendorff place in Berlin-Charlottenburg was 10 June 2010 in honor of the German-Jewish writer Siegfried Kracauer lived the early 1930s in the Sybelstraße 35 overlooking the Holtzendorff place in Kracauerplatz renamed. Holtzendorffstraße runs from Kantstraße and from the Amtsgerichtsplatz to Joachim-Friedrich-Straße and to the former Holtzendorffplatz. She has had her name since July 30, 1897.

In the Munich district of Obergiesing-Fasangarten , not far from the Munich correctional facility ( Stadelheim ), a street was named after him.

Works (selection)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 13 , 14
  2. ↑ Kracauerplatz, formerly Holtzendorffplatz. In: Berlin.de, District Office Charlottenburg, About the District. Retrieved September 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Holtzendorffstrasse. In: Berlin.de, District Office Charlottenburg, About the District. Retrieved September 23, 2016 .

See also

Web links

Wikisource: Collection of commonly understood scientific lectures  - sources and full texts

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personal data
SURNAME Holtzendorff, Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Vietmannsdorf
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1889
Place of death Munich