Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken

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Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken (born December 9, 1830 in Hamburg , † May 1, 1896 in Munich ) was a German lawyer, politician, diplomat and publicist.

Life

Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken was the only son of the Hamburg Senator Heinrich Geffcken . He enrolled in 1850 at the University of Bonn , where he studied history, and then at the University of Göttingen , where he studied law. During his studies in 1850 he became a member of the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn . After he had stayed in Berlin for one more winter and had come into contact with the party of the Deutsche Wochenblatt , he was appointed legation secretary at the embassy of the Free Cities in Paris in 1854 , commissioner at the world exhibition in 1855, and chargé d'affaires in Hamburg in 1856 Berlin and in 1859 as Hanseatic Minister- Resident there. 1866-68 Geffcken was the diplomatic representative of the Hanseatic cities at the court of St. James in London , from where he returned to Hamburg in mid-1868 after the establishment of the North German Confederation to serve as a syndic of the Senate until 1872 .

Since 1872 professor of international law and political science at the University of Strasbourg , he retired in 1881 due to illness and moved back to Hamburg.

Geffcken was a political opponent of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . This took the opportunity to Geffcken because of his unauthorized publication of the war diaries of the recently deceased Emperor Friedrich III. accused of high treason. Geffcken was arrested in September 1888. The charges were later dropped and he regained freedom as a broken man in January 1889. He then had to leave Hamburg and moved to Munich.

family

In 1860 Geffcken married Caroline Immermann, the daughter of the poet Carl Leberecht Immermann . The couple had four sons and two daughters, including:

  • Eva Maria Victoria ⚭ Felix von Eckardt (father) (1866–1936), parents of Felix von Eckardt (1903–1979), press spokesman under Konrad Adenauer
  • Karl Heinrich Johannes (* May 2, 1861; † June 11, 1935) ⚭ 1888 Antonie Schultz (1863–1903) (philologist)
  • Otto Wilhelm Heinrich (born June 27, 1865 - † February 5, 1916), Professor of Law
  • Walter (1872–1950), painter

Works

  • The Coup d'état of December 2, 1851 and its repercussion on Europe (Leipzig 1870)
  • The Alabama Question (Stuttgart 1872)
  • The relationship between state and church historically developed (Berlin 1875)
  • On the history of the oriental war (Berlin 1881)
  • The Pope's position under international law in Franz von Holtzendorff's Handbuch des Völkerrechts (1885)
  • France, Russia and the Triple Alliance , Berlin, Wilhelmi 1893

In addition, together with Carl Mühlhäußer, he founded the contemporary issues of Christian popular life , in which collection he himself published: Socialism (Heilbronn 1877) and The Reform of Imperial Taxes (1879). He edited the first volume of the second series of Georg Friedrich von Martens ' and Ferdinand de Cornot de Cussy's Recueil manuel et pratique de traités (Leipzig 1885).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the old gentlemen of the Bonn fraternity "Frankonia". of September 1, 1901, p. 3.

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personal data
SURNAME Geffcken, Friedrich Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1896
Place of death Munich