Georg Carl Treitschke

Georg Carl Treitschke (born December 27, 1783 in Dresden , † September 2, 1855 in Dresden) was a German lawyer , legal scholar and writer .

In his time he was one of the leading lawyers in Germany. Due to the increasing trade, he published legal books and commentaries and thus contributed to general legal certainty. In goods and commercial law , he was university - teachers . He was a sought-after advisor for the more and more important subjects in goods, trade and related financing issues at other educational establishments. In addition, he worked on historical topics as a writer and published stories on current affairs as a political buffoon writer.

Life

Treitschke was the eldest son of Karl-Friedrich Treitschke , court and judicial councilor in Dresden and representative of the state government at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar , and his wife Elenore Friederike geb. Lindemann. His two younger brothers Eduard Heinrich and Franz Adolf were ennobled in 1821. Their descendants were the historian Heinrich von Treitschke and the general Heinrich Leo von Treitschke . His sister is Charlotte Emilie Treitschke, married. Weinlig, her son Albert Christian Weinlig .

After graduating from high school , studying law and completing his doctorate in Leipzig , Treitschke became a lawyer in Leipzig in 1811 . In 1812 he worked as an excise inspector in Lützen , in 1814 he became a general excise inspector in Leipzig and there from 1821 to 1834 attorney at court. In 1836 he was a royal Saxon judge of appeal in Dresden and in 1846 a secret judge in the Ministry of Justice in Dresden. At the beginning of 1849 he led the office of Minister of Justice in the first bourgeois government in Saxony , even if only for a few weeks on an interim basis. From 1850 until his death in 1855 he was Ministerialrat in Dresden.

Treitschke already recognized from his own practical experience in the trade fair city and rising trade metropolis of Leipzig that due to the increasing trade with the most diverse types of trade, legal assistance for the user had to be given through appropriate literature and legal comments. As an assessor at the Leipzig Faculty of Law (1829–1835) he gave lectures, a. a. about one of his specialties, the law on bills of exchange. The basis for this was his book “Handbuch des Wechselrechts”, supplemented by the “Alphabetical Encyclopedia of Exchange Rights and Exchange Laws”, a reference work recognized by experts for daily use. The translation of volumes 14 and 17 of the “Corpus Juris civilis” into German was made by Treitschke. Further course content was commercial law and European international law (optionally also in French).

A few years later it was recognized that the law of exchange had to be reformed due to the steadily growing trade. At the initiative of the federal state of Prussia , the most competent lawyers of all federal states were invited to Leipzig, the now recognized business location, to a conference on the law of exchange . The aim was to eliminate the legal fragmentation and to create a uniform, all-German change law. With the substantial collaboration of Treitschke and Christian G. Einert, a new bill of exchange law was created that renounced Roman law and met the requirements of modern trade. The new bill of exchange law was passed by the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main in 1848.

Treitschke's essay "Some questions, concerning stock corporation" was published in 1841 in the magazine for German law and jurisprudence. He advocated a statutory regulation of company law. He turned against the previous arbitration practice and built first legal principles and the like for a largely unlawful area. a. to protect shareholders . A quarter of a century later, this approach was adopted by Achilles Renaud as a far-reaching concept of shareholder protection.

Treitschke was certainly strongly influenced by the family relationship with his nephew Albert Christian Weinlig in the practical relevance of his work. Weinlig was a recognized business expert in Saxony. The draft for the German Patent Act and the Postal Act (of January 1, 1868) comes from him. The General German Commercial Code was created with his participation.

From a young age, Treitschke worked as a writer alongside his legal profession. The content included both historical topics such as the “History of Thomas Münzer” and political antics such as “Germany in Sleep” and “Germany's Morning Dream and Awakening”, as contributions to current political events. Treitschke died at the age of 72 in his native Dresden.

Literature and Sources

• 1824: Handbook of bill of exchange law , Leipzig, Carl Heinrich Reclam publishing house
• 1825: The doctrine of the business society according to Roman, Austrian, Prussian, Saxon and French rights , Verlag Carl Heinrich Reclam
• 1829 Outline of the judicial system in the Kingdom of Saxony and the Royal Saxon Upper Lusatia, Sehrig, Leipzig (with Gustav Wilhelm Schubert )
• 1831: Alphabetical Encyclopedia of Exchange Rights and Exchange Laws , Leipzig, Verlag Johann Ambrosius Barth, Volume 1; A-L, Volume 2; CONCENTRATION CAMP
• 1838: The purchase contract in special relation to the goods trade , Leipzig, Carl Focke publishing house
• 1838: The purchase contract in special relation to the goods trade, according to Roman law and the most important newer legislation , Leipzig, Verlag Carl Focke
• 1839: Legal principles of commission trading , Leipzig, Carl Focke publishing house
• 1844: The doctrine of the unrestrictedly compulsory industrial society and of commandites , Leipzig, Verlag Carl Heinrich Reclam
• 1845 Leipzig English and North American bill of exchange law (2nd author Joseph Story )
• 1850: The feudal law , Teubner publishing house

Literary literature

• 1807: The bachelor business, Vienna 1807, Sig Her 891 (2nd author Adalbert Gyrowetz )
• 1808: The milkmaid from Bercy, Vienna 1808, signed Her 1142 (2nd author Anton Friedrich Fischer)
• 1809: Germany asleep, Brockhaus Altenburg publishing house
• 1811: History of Thomas Münzer, in Dippold's and Köthe's general. Historical magazine issue 1, Leipzig
• 1814: History of the 50 year old freedom of Pisa, Leipzig
• 1814: Heinrich the First King of the Germans and his wife Mathilde, Brockhaus Leipzig and Altenburg
• 1814: Germany's morning dream and awakening, Brockhaus Altenburg publishing house
• 1816: Naumburger drinking horn, historical magazine. Vol. 4,
• 1829: Memorandum on: Ideas for a commercial college to be set up in Leipzig, Leipzig (transcription of the manuscript in Pott, Klaus Friedrich (Ed.): Materials on an early history of Leipzig's commercial teaching, Detmold 2018, pp. 131-143)

Web links

• Overview of Georg Carl Treitschke's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1822 to summer semester 1835)