Friedrich Gottfried Leue

Friedrich Gottfried Leue (born February 24, 1801 in Salzwedel ; † February 4, 1872 there ) was a German lawyer and legal reformer, politician and author.

Life

Leue dedicated his professional life to the jurisprudence . He attended high school in Salzwedel from 1810 to 1820 and then studied law at the University of Halle from 1820 to 1822 . In 1823 he began working as a lawyer at the Magdeburg Regional Court and the Salzwedel City Court . Leue actively campaigned for reforms in politics and the judiciary to achieve democratic change. From 1835 to 1865 he worked as chief procurator in the Rhine province. In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . From May 18, 1848 to April 23, 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly , from 1849 to 1850 he was a member of the First Chamber of the Prussian Parliament . In 1859 Leue was a member of the Central Council of the German National Association and worked from 1862 to 1866 in the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituencies of Salzwedel and Gardelegen . In 1869 he returned to Salzwedel.

In 1845 Leue printed "The Jury Court" at his own expense. In it he called on the public to take part in legal proceedings, the participation of lay judges and the elimination of patrimonial jurisdiction. That earned him a lawsuit for high treason. However, Leue was acquitted, but still transferred to a sentence.

In his political stance, Leue stood up for the common good. This gave him a high level of credibility among the population. He was considered a fighter for a unified, undivided and democratic fatherland. His endeavors as a lawyer and as a member of parliament were aimed at changing the legal system . He called for the state's arbitrariness to be replaced by a legally guaranteed freedom of the individual on the part of the state. With this, the lawyer laid the foundation for a legal system that operates independently and freely on legal bases. For him, these included:

• oral proceedings in court (similar to today's public hearing and taking of evidence );
• Introduction of jury trials (now Schöffengerichte );
• Elimination of the feudal order of privileges.

Works

• Theory of proof in the Prussian civil processes. Jacob Anton Mayer , Aachen 1835
• On the nature of the oath. Mayer, Aachen 1836
• The oral public indictment process and the secret written investigation process in Germany: historical & critical. Mayer, Aachen 1840
• The jury court: In addition to an appendix on the incompatibility of the draft of the Criminal Code for Prussia with the Rhineland court system. Aachen 1845
• Defense of the Chief Procurator Leue in Koblenz against the new and hitherto unheard of charges for attempting a press offense. Leipzig, 1847
• The German jury. Kollmann, Leipzig 1847
• About censorship and freedom of speech. Mayer, Aachen 1848
• Comments on the draft of the Criminal Code for Prussia: with special regard to the judicial constitution of the Rhine Province. Kollmann, Leipzig 1848
• Motivated draft for a criminal trial order with comparison of the court constitution in England, France and Prussia. Mayer, Aachen [a. a.] 1850
• Law on the judicial constitution in Prussia excluding the Bez. D. Royal Court of Appeal in Cologne. Kaulen, Düsseldorf 1865

literature

• Dieter Müller: Leue, Friedrich Gottfried. In: Friedrich Gottfried Leue (1801 to 1872) - A liberal judicial reformer of the Paulskirchenzeit. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2000.
• Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 .
• Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical handbook of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and the political parties. Volume 8). Droste, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-7700-5193-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)

Web links

• Friedrich Gottfried Leue . In: Heinrich Best : The members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/1849 (BIORAB-FRANKFURT) (the exact data set must be found).