Friedrich Oppenhoff

Friedrich Christian Oppenhoff (born December 28, 1811 in Recklinghausen , † December 14, 1875 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and the Customs Parliament .

Life

The son of the district court president in Kleve, Karl Joseph Oppenhoff (1779–1843) and grandson of the Kurkölnischen procurator and Bonn notary Theodor Oppenhoff († 1804) and brother of the Aachen district court president Theodor Oppenhoff , attended the grammar school in Kleve and studied law at the universities of Göttingen , Bonn and Berlin . In 1838 he became an assessor . In 1841 he was appointed assessor at the Aachen Regional Court and in 1844 he was appointed to the Cologne Court of Appeal . In the same year he was appointed state procurator in Aachen . In 1848 he was appointed to the Legislative Commission of the Kingdom of Hanover , which prepared a fundamental reform of the Hanoverian court system. Here Oppenhoff was instrumental in drafting the new Code of Criminal Procedure from 1850. From 1850 he was chief procurator in Trier and from 1853 chief public prosecutor at the Prussian High Tribunal in Berlin.

In 1856 Oppenhoff published the commentary on the Prussian Penal Code and in 1860 the commentary on the Prussian laws on oral and public proceedings in criminal matters . At the same time he began to publish the collection of judgments of the Prussian Higher Tribunal in criminal matters . In 1868 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn. In 1871 he published the commentary on the Reich Criminal Code.

In 1870 he was elected to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation in a replacement election in the constituency of Dusseldorf 12 ( Neuss , Grevenbroich ) , which also made him a member of the Customs Parliament . He joined the conservative faction .

literature

• Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 .
• Fritz Oppenhoff:  Oppenhoff, Friedrich Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 708-710.
• Andreas Thier:  Oppenhoff, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 576 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Christian Oppenhoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography of Friedrich Christian Oppenhoff . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)