Friedrich Hermann Sonnenschmidt

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Friedrich Hermann Sonnenschmidt (born November 12, 1801 in Greifswald , † November 10, 1881 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and Prussian Appellate Councilor. He published his own poems under his first name Friedrich Hermann .

Life

Friedrich Hermann Sonnenschmidt was the eldest son of Georg Christian Sonnenschmidt (1766–1838), chief administrator of Swedish Pomerania and later chief appellate councilor, and his wife Katharina Elisabeth Droysen. He attended the Greifswald city school from 1808 to 1819 . Enrolled at the University of Greifswald in 1816 , he studied law and philosophy. In 1822 he went to the University of Göttingen , where Karl Friedrich Eichhorn , Johann Friedrich Ludwig Göschen , Gustav von Hugo and Georg Jacob Friedrich Meister were his teachers. In 1823 he moved to Heidelberg University to study with Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut , Karl Salomo Zachariae , Karl Heinrich Rau and Johann Wilhelm Heinrich Conradi . After several months of walking through Switzerland and Italy, he completed his studies in Göttingen.

From 1824 to 1829 he was an unskilled worker at the municipal deputation of the Berlin City Court and during this time passed three legal exams at the Court of Appeal . He then got a job as a regular assessor at the court in Greifswald . In 1834 he was transferred to the Higher Regional Court of Stettin and in 1836 he went to Köslin as a higher regional judge . The following year he was appointed to Greifswald as a senior appellate councilor.

From 1849 to 1850 he took part in the reorganization of the judicial authorities in New Western Pomerania and Rügen . In 1853 he was appointed to the Prussian Higher Tribunal . Here he was a member of the board of the editorial committee for the decisions of the higher tribunal.

On the occasion of his fiftieth anniversary of service, the universities in Greifswald and Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate in law in 1874 . He was also awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class. At the end of 1874 he was appointed to a commission to reorganize property tax in the provinces of Schleswig-Holstein , Hanover and Hessen-Nassau . He retired on October 1, 1879.

Friedrich Hermann Sonnenschmidt was the author of numerous legal writings. He has been interested in art and poetry since his youth. In 1841 he was one of the founders of the art association for New Western Pomerania and Rügen. In 1872 he published a volume of poetry and in 1873 a translation of the requiem . Before his death in 1881, he was unable to complete a long poem about the Wars of Liberation .

Fonts (selection)

  • A few remarks about the civil process in New-Vor-Pommern and Rügen and the advantages of the same to be taken into account when editing a new Prussian court order over the current process in the older Prussian provinces. Koch, Greifswald 1839. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
  • About the editing of a general German code of law and the importance to be attached to the customs association in this regard. Koch, Greifswald 1843.
  • Collection of laws, royal letters, government patents, rescripts and other notices and ordinances issued for New Western Pomerania and Rügen in the years 1802 up to and including 1817. 2 volumes. Royal Government Book Printing Works, Stralsund 1844–1847.
  • Catalog of the library of the Royal Prussian Ober-Appellations- and Supreme Court in Greifswald. Royal Government Printing House, Stralsund 1844.
  • A few words to explain the reprehensibility of the appeal of the annulment complaint in the Prussian civil trials. Springer, Berlin 1868.
  • What is to be made of the legal remedies of the revision and the upper revision in the draft of a German civil procedure code of 1872? A contemplation by Heymann, Berlin 1874.
  • Practical discussions from the areas of Prussian and common civil and procedural law. Heymann, Berlin 1875.
  • New practical discussions from the areas of Prussian and common civil and procedural law. Bahlen, Berlin 1877.
  • History of the Royal Higher Tribunal in Berlin. Heymanns Berlin 1879.
  • About the appeal of the revision according to the Civil Process Ordinance for the German Empire of January 30, 1877. In: Journal for German Civil Process. Vol. 2, 1880, ISSN  1610-4382 , pp. 421-469, online (PDF; 15.67 MB) .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (ed.): Acta Borussica . New episode. Row 1: The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Volume 6: Rainer Paetau, Hartwin Spenkuch (arrangement): January 3, 1867 to December 20, 1878. Part 2. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim et al. 2004, ISBN 3-487-11826-2 , p. 712, ( Online ( PDF; 2.52 MB) ).

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personal data
SURNAME Sonnenschmidt, Friedrich Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1881
Place of death Berlin