Friedrich Ortloff

Friedrich Ortloff Private Law (1828)

Friedrich Ortloff (born October 10, 1797 in Erlangen , † October 10, 1868 in Jena ) was a German lawyer , professor and president of the Higher Appeal Court in Jena.

Life

Friedrich Ortloff was born on October 10, 1797 in Erlangen as the son of the shoemaker and philosophy professor Johann Andreas Ortloff and his wife Anna Elisabeth Sophie Dürr.

In 1803 his father moved with his family to Coburg , where Friedrich Ortloff attended the Coburg grammar school from 1809 to 1814. After school, Friedrich Ortloff studied at the universities of Jena , Göttingen and Erlangen jurisprudence . He was a member of the Erlangen Masonic Lodge Lebanon to the three cedars . In Coburg in 1816 at the age of 19 he was employed as a lawyer at the Coburg court and in 1818 he published his first work on education for citizens and received his doctorate with the dissertation Commentatio juris romani de thesauris . In 1819, at the age of 22, he accepted a call as professor for German private law at the University of Jena, with which the office in the Schöppenstuhl was connected, so that theory and practice were combined. At the Jena Higher Appeal Court , which was set up for the Thuringian states in accordance with the Federal Constitution in 1817, he was appointed to the council in 1826 and found time as an honorary professor at the Jena University until he became President of the Higher appeal court was.

As President, Friedrich Ortloff played an essential part in ensuring that the jurisdiction of the Jena Higher Appeal Court was more liberal and progressive than that of other German higher courts. After the revolution of 1848 he was involved in legislation and in 1848 and 1849 he worked out the drafts for a Thuringian code of criminal procedure and a Thuringian penal code, which came into force in 1850.

In 1856 the Thuringian states appointed Friedrich Ortloff as their representative in the Saxon-Thuringian commission for the elaboration of the Saxon civil code , in which he played a decisive role. Especially in the general part and the general law of obligations, his drafts were often adopted without change. However, this civil code only came into force in Saxony , but not in Thuringia . Another work of this commission was the draft of a code of civil procedure , which, however, came into force neither in Thuringia nor in Saxony.

Friedrich Ortloff died on October 10, 1868 at the age of 71 in Jena. He left a son from his first marriage and three children from his second marriage.

meaning

Friedrich Ortloff played a decisive role in the Thuringian liberal jurisprudence of the time and the Saxon civil legislation. His works were often limited to the critical editing and compilation of previous legal sources. His most important work was probably the history of the Grumbachian Handel in four volumes, which presented the most important political disputes in Thuringia in the second half of the 16th century and was considered a standard work at that time.

Works

• Commentatio juris romani de thesauris , 1818
• On education to be a citizen , 1818
• Basic features of a system of German private law including feudal law , 1828
• Collections of German legal sources , consisting of:

* The legal book according to distinctions (Meißner Rechtsbuch / Older Eisenacher Rechtsbuch) 1836 and

* Johann Purgoldt's legal book along with statutory rights of Gotha and Eisenach , 1860

• History of the Grumbach's Handel , 1868–70, 4 volumes

literature

• Karl Schulz .:  Ortloff, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 449-453.
• Peter Landau:  Ortloff, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 602 f. ( Digitized version ).
• F. Wulfert: The Saxon civil code and the commission appointed to revise Held's draft , in: Sächs. Archive f. Citizen Recht 1, 1891, pp. 42-58; Stintzing-Landsberg;
• Ch. Ahcin: On the emergence of the civil code for the Kingdom of Saxony from 1863/65 , 1996, pp. 263-303.
• Hermann Ortloff: Dr. Friedrich Ortloff, real secret councilor and President of the General Higher Appeal Court in Jena. Obituary. Friedrich Frommann, Jena, 1869 ( online )

Web links

• Basic features of a system of German private law including the feudal law of 1828 online
• Brief outline of life