Georg Meyer (politician, 1841)

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Georg Meyer

Georg Christian Wilhelm Meyer (born February 21, 1841 in Detmold ; † February 28, 1900 in Heidelberg ) was a lawyer, university professor and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Meyer was the son of the innkeeper, hotel owner and Lord Mayor of Detmold Georg Heinrich Meyer (1803–1866) and his wife Ida Sophie Wilhelmine Caspari (1809–1842). After attending secondary school in Detmold , he studied law at the University of Jena in 1860 , where Burkard Wilhelm Leist , Friedrich von Hahn (lawyer) , Andreas Ludwig Jacob Michelsen and Heinrich Aemilius August Danz became his teachers. Here he joined the Germania fraternity . In November 1861 he moved to the University of Heidelberg and in the fall of 1862 he was at the University of Göttingen. Returning to Heidelberg, he received his doctorate in law in March 1863 and passed his state examination in Detmold that same year. Then he practiced legal practice as an auditor in Detmold and Schötmar . There he took a leave of absence to complete statistical studies at the University of Berlin .

In 1866 he worked as an unskilled worker in Bruno Hildebrand's “Statistical Bureau” in Jena and completed his habilitation on December 21, 1867 with a thesis on the right of expropriation in the Roman Empire as a private lecturer at the University of Marburg . In 1869/70 he went on a long study trip that took him to France and England. To his regret, he could not take part in the war of 1870/71 . In 1872 he was appointed associate professor for constitutional and administrative law in Marburg. At the beginning of the winter semester of 1875 he moved to the law faculty of the University of Jena as a full professor of German and journalism, he was appointed privy councilor and he became director of the political science seminar. In addition, he participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Salana in the summer semester of 1879 . In the summer semester of 1888, he moved to Heidelberg University as a full professor of German constitutional and administrative law and German legal history; In the academic year 1897/1898 he also worked there as prorector in the management of the university.

His main works were textbooks on German constitutional and administrative law. After his death the parliamentary suffrage appeared .

Political activity

Meyer belonged to the National Liberal Party . In 1878 he was elected as a member of the state parliament in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach for the city of Weimar . From 1881 to 1890 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 3 (Jena-Neustadt an der Orla). There he worked on many laws in commissions, including a. with the law on protected areas, and was secretary several times.

Meyer was one of the leading figures of the Baden National Liberals and a member of the party's central committee. From 1891 he was also a representative of Heidelberg University in the Baden First Chamber . In 1891 he was appointed Privy Councilor , at the same time he was a member of the district council, the citizens' committee and many other bodies.

In 1891 he received the Prussian Order of the Crown, 3rd class.

In 1873 he married Ernestine Schotten (1849–1931) in Marburg, the daughter of the local university syndicate. The marriage remained apparently childless.

Works (selection)

  • De Iure expropriationis in imperio Romano. Marburg 1867
  • The right of expropriation. Leipzig 1868
  • Principles of North German Federal Law. Leipzig 1868 ( online )
  • Discussions on constitutional law on the German Reich constitution. Leipzig 1872 ( online )
  • The study of public law and political science in Germany. Academic inaugural speech. Jena 1875
  • Textbook of German constitutional law. Leipzig 1878, 2nd edition Leipzig 1885, 3rd edition Leipzig 1891; 4th edition Leipzig 1895, 5th edition Leipzig 1899, 6th edition Leipzig 1905, 7th edition Munich 1919
  • The reorganization of the guilds. Jena 1879
  • The bestowal of the king's spell and things with margravial grace. Jena 1881
  • Textbook of German administrative law. Leipzig 1883/85, 2nd vol., 2nd edition Leipzig 1893/94; 3rd edition Munich 1910; 4th edition 1913
  • The constitutional law of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Freiburg im Breisgau, 1884
  • The constitutional status of the German protected areas. Leipzig 1888
  • The share of the imperial organs in imperial legislation. Jena 1889
  • Legal opinion for their noble and illustrious, the princes and counts of Schönburg, regarding the position of the civil code for the German Empire on the autonomy of the noble houses. Ettlingen 1891
  • Legal opinion for the association of German professional lords regarding the membership of the House of Leiningen-Westerburg. Ettlingen 1892
  • The state and acquired rights. Leipzig 1895
  • Expert opinion on the current situation of the dispute over the throne and the reign in the Principality of Lippe. Heidelberg 1896
  • About the emergence and development of general voting rights. Academic speech to celebrate the birth of the most blessed Grand Duke Karl Friedrich on November 22, 1897 at the presentation of the annual report and the announcement of the academic prizes . J. Hörning, Heidelberg 1897.
  • The right to confiscate wage and salary claims, based on the Reich Laws of June 21, 1869 and March 29, 1897 and the Code of Civil Procedure; with introduction, comments and subject index. Berlin 1900, 2nd edition Berlin 1904; 7th edition 1930
  • Parliamentary suffrage. Berlin 1901 (published posthumously by Georg Jellinek )

literature

  • Pascale Cancik : Georg Meyer (1841-1900). In: Peter Häberle , Michael Kilian , Heinrich Wolff : Constitutional law teacher of the 20th century. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston (2nd edition) 2018, pp. 47–63, ISBN 978-3-11-054145-8 .
  • Carsten Doerfert: Georg Meyer (1841-1900). Constitutional law teacher and politician from Lippe. In: Lippische Mitteilungen 62 (1993), pp. 191–197.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, pp. 96-98, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X .
  • Manfred Friedrich:  Meyer, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 339 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Georg Jellinek : Georg Meyer † (obituary). In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung , vol. 5 (1900), p. 130 ( digitized version ).
  • Georg Jellinek: Georg Meyer. In: Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume V. Verlag Georg Reimer, Berlin 1903, pp. 336-339 ( online ).
  • Georg Meyer, Gerhard Anschütz: Textbook of German constitutional law . Reprint of the 7th edition, with an introduction by Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 274.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Georg Christian Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, university professor and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1900
Place of death Heidelberg