Georg Karl von Seuffert

Georg Karl von Seuffert (born October 15, 1800 in Würzburg , † December 28, 1870 in Nuremberg ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Georg Karl von Seuffert was the fourth of six sons of the Privy Councilor Johann Michael von Seuffert and his wife Apollonia (born November 2, 1771 in Würzburg; † May 29, 1832 in Munich), a daughter of the Würzburg mayor Franz Joseph Oehninger (1749– 1807). His siblings known by name were:

• Georg Josef (1793–1864), district court director, honorary citizen of Würzburg;
• Johann Adam (1794–1857), professor of law at Julius Maximilians University and later appellate judge, honorary citizen of Würzburg;
• Dorothea von Seuffert (1807–1873) ⚭ Heinrich Gustav Christoph Freiherr von Drechsel auf Teuffstetten (1806–1889), Bavarian lieutenant colonel .

Career

Seuffert attended the old grammar school in his hometown and was matriculated at the University of Würzburg on September 1, 1817 and studied law , mathematics and astrology ; In 1823 he took first place in the state bankruptcy of all candidates . After completing his studies, he got a job in 1822 as secretary of the Bavarian state parliament , in which his father was president.

On July 23, 1822, he obtained his doctorate in law with his dissertation de eo, quod justum est circa de in rem verso actionem .

In July 1823 he became a trainee lawyer at the Weyhers Regional Court and received the reports on civil and embarrassing law as well as the administration subject and was in particular involved in the implementation of the Mortgage Act of June 1, 1822 (introduction of the mortgage book, in which the encumbrances of a property are recorded were used. In the spring of 1824 he was, at the request of his father when Ratsakzess the Court of Appeals for the Lower Main circuit set, although already the set number was filled Akzessisten, but the appointment was made with regard to the-won in bankruptcy examination mark of distinction and on the merits of his Father.

He was employed on June 22, 1826 as a district and city judge in Schweinfurt ; In this position he was transferred to Würzburg on March 26, 1830 , but this transfer was withdrawn at his request with the rescript of June 29, 1830, so that he came back to Schweinfurt. In 1833 he was appointed to the council and in 1837 promoted to director of the district and city court in Schweinfurt. On May 24, 1843 he was appointed first director at the district and city court and at the Nuremberg Commercial Court of Appeal. In 1853 he was charged with drafting a new code of civil procedure ; for the duration of this work he was relieved of the management of the court, which the second director took over. In 1855 he completed his design and in the same year it was approved. His request of November 1855 to return to his previous position or to be appointed to a similar position was not granted because in the royal decree of July 17, 1856 he was named as the legal scholar who was to be a member of the commission to be formed at the Federal Assembly for the purpose the drafting of a general German commercial code. The commission met in Nuremberg on January 15, 1857 in accordance with the federal decree of December 18, 1856. Together with the mayor of the city of Nuremberg, Maximilian von Wächter , he was now preoccupied with the preparations for the admission of the committee members and the organization of the conference sessions. As part of this activity, he also took part in the negotiations on maritime law in Hamburg from April 26, 1858 to August 22, 1860 and was the only representative of German landlocked states. The conference ended in Nuremberg after 589 days of meetings on March 12, 1861, after the 3rd reading had been decided. The decision on the law of the sea took place at the Juristentag in Berlin , which he also attended at the request of his Justice Minister Karl von Mulzer .

During this time, with a rescript of July 29, 1857, he was promoted to second director at the Court of Appeal of the Upper Palatinate and Regensburg , with the provision that he would only begin his service until the Commercial Code Conference was over; on March 10, 1860, he was promoted, with the same determination, to the 1st director at the Lower Bavaria appeal court in Passau . He then took up this position in July 1861. With a rescript of April 21, 1862, he was appointed president of the new commercial appeal court for the seven districts of Bavaria on the Rhine, which was to be established in Nuremberg on July 1, 1862.

In the spring he was elected by the city of Nuremberg as a member of the state parliament, but he turned down this election because he saw this position in contradiction to his official duties.

From March to June 1861 he worked on the draft of the Bavarian Introductory Act to the General German Civil Code in Nuremberg , with the support of the then District Court Councilor and later Minister of State Johann von Lutz , who was already the recorder of the deliberations on the Commercial Code.

He wrote several treatises on the peculiarities of the Franconian provincial and particular rights in sheets for the application of law , which were published by his brother Johann Adam von Seuffert .

He also conducted mathematical and astronomical studies. In 1857 he brought out a translation of a work by Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert from 1749, which dealt with the precision and nutation movement of the earth's axis .

In October 1826 he married the banker's daughter Kordula Hohwiesner († 1846) in Frankfurt. They had seven children together, the first of whom was born in April 1833 and died at the age of six:

• Therese ⚭ Karl Thoussaint, public prosecutor at the District Court of Amberg
• Kathinka
• Ludwig (1840–1865), assistant doctor at the Juliusspital in Würzburg, died of blood poisoning
• Heinrich, forester
• Georg, officer in the 14th Infantry Regiment
• Anna

The godfather of his second son was King Ludwig I.

Memberships

In his youth he occupied himself with music (piano, fagot, cello) and was accepted as a member of the Collegium musicum academicum in Würzburg . The Collegium musicum academicum was founded in 1797 by Franz Joseph Fröhlich , from which today's University of Music Würzburg emerged .

Honors

• On January 18, 1839, the city of Schweinfurt made him an honorary citizen .
• On January 1, 1840, he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of St. Michael .
• The city of Nuremberg granted him honorary citizenship on November 1, 1857.
• On April 10, 1861, he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Bavarian Crown and, on the same day, the Commander's Cross, Second Class of the Nassau Military and Civil Merit Order .
• On April 9, 1861, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Austrian Order of Franz Joseph .
• On May 1, 1861 he received the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle III. Class.
• On March 29, 1864 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of St. Michael.
• In the Steinbühl district of Nuremberg , a street near the Christ Church was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

• Dissertatio inauguralis juridica de eo, quod justum est circa de in rem verso actionem . Wuerzburg, 1822.
• About the necessity and the effect of the introduction of the larger factory operation in the area of ​​the so-called Nuremberg trade . Munich Dr. C. Wolf & Son 1855.
• Jean LeRond d 'Alembert, Georg Karl Leopold Seuffert: Investigations on the precession of the equinoxes and on the nutation of the earth axis according to Newton's systems . Nuremberg Korn 1857.
• Statistics of the grain and victual trade in the Kingdom of Bavaria with consideration of other countries . Munich: White 1857.
• Disputes from the findings of the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Bavaria in conflicts of competence between the courts and administrative authorities, from 1851 to the end of the administrative year 1857/58 . Munich, Giel, 1858.

literature

• Karl Theodor von Heigel:  Seuffert, Georg Karl v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 53.
• Dr. Georg Karl von Seuffert, President of the royal Bavarian Commercial Appeal Court in Nuremberg: Nekrolog . Erlangen 1871.