Georg Wilhelm von Wetzell

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Georg Wilhelm Wetzell , from 1866 von Wetzell , (born January 23, 1815 in Hofgeismar , † October 22, 1890 in Rostock ) was a German legal scholar, university professor and politician. He taught as a professor at the Universities of Marburg , Rostock and Tübingen . From 1860 to 1862 he was rector of the University of Rostock. In 1866 Wetzell was a state councilor and head of the Ministry of the Interior of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

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Georg Wilhelm Wetzell was born in Hofgeismar, a small town in the Electorate of Hesse , in 1815 . His father was the principal of the city school there. Wetzell also attended this before he graduated from high school Fridericianum in Kassel in 1833. He then studied law, philosophy, philology , history and archeology in Marburg . There he was supported in particular by Georg Friedrich Puchta . In 1838 he passed the first state examination in law. He then continued his studies in Berlin, where he heard among others Friedrich Carl von Savigny , and Munich. In Munich he familiarized himself with the philosophy of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling , which had a significant influence on his worldview and sense of justice.

On May 16, 1840, Wetzell received his doctorate in Marburg with the text “Lex XII tabularum rerum furtivarum usucapionem prohibet” and received the venia legendi . He then taught there, initially as a private lecturer, from 1845 as an associate professor and from 1846 as a full professor in German civil litigation and Roman law . During this time he worked on the “Critical Yearbooks for German Law”, which Ämilius Ludwig Richter and Robert Schneider edited. From 1849 to 1850 Wetzell was Vice Rector of the University of Marburg.

From March to May 1850 Wetzell was a member of the State House in Erfurt , where he was an authorized representative of the Electorate of Hesse on the administrative board. In September 1851 he left the Hessian state service at his own request.

From October 1851 to March 1863, Wetzell taught German civil process and Roman law as a full professor at the University of Rostock . He was popular as a lecturer and influenced the development of Mecklenburg law with his lectures. In addition, he wrote his main work "System des ordnungs civilprocesses" (1854–1861) in Rostock, which was reprinted several times. From August 1859 to July 1860 Wetzell was dean and from August 1860 to July 1862 rector of the University of Rostock. In May 1860 he married Frederike, geb. von Meding (1824-1862). She was the daughter of a Privy Councilor and Secretary of the Law Office. However, Wetzell's wife died in childbed in July 1862, and their child also died shortly after the birth.

The widowed Wetzell, who had rejected earlier appointments to Greifswald and Jena , accepted the call to Tübingen . There he was a full professor from April 1863 to April 1866. In April 1866 he resigned from the Württemberg civil service at his own request.

Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II appointed Wetzell on April 10, 1866 as a State Councilor and Chairman of the Ministry of the Interior of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . As a statesman, Wetzell represented strictly conservative and positive ecclesiastical views. On September 24, 1886 he left office at his own request and in the following month was awarded, among other things, the appointment of the Real Secret Council for his services . In 1890 Friedrich Franz III. Wetzell on the occasion of his 50th doctorate jubilee in the Mecklenburg nobility.

Wetzell remarried around 1882. His second wife was Friederike, geb. von Schack (1829–1912), daughter of a manor owner. The couple lived in Rostock. Wetzell was a member of the competence court there until the year he died. He died of a stroke in 1890 at the age of 75 .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Lex XII Tabularum Rerum Furtivarum Usucapionem Prohibet. Rösl, Munich 1840.
  • The Roman Vindication Process. Bernhard Tauchnitz , Leipzig 1845.
  • Concerns about the lifting of academic jurisdiction. Elwert, Marburg 1848.
  • Disputatio de questione, adversus quem in integrum restitutio imploranda sit. Typis Elwerti Academicis, Marburg 1850.
  • System of the ordinary civil process. Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1854, 3rd edition 1878 ( online ), reprint Goldbach 1995.

literature

  • Wetzell, Georg von. In: Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. A biographical lexicon. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 , pp. 337–338.
  • Oetker .:  Wetzell, Georg Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 61-63.
  • August Ubbelohde , Rudolf Leonhard u. a .: Festivities of the legal faculty in Marburg for the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the doctorate of his Excellency the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Real Secret Counselor Georg Wilhelm Wetzell. NG Elwert, Marburg 1890.
  • Rudolph Sohm : The emergence of the German urban system. A commemorative publication. Dr. Georg Wilhelm Wetzell on the 50th anniversary of his doctorate on May 16, 1890. Duncker & Humblot, Marburg 1890.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Wetzell, Georg von. In: Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 337.
  2. ^ A b c Oetker .:  Wetzell, Georg Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 61-63.
  3. ↑ The court responsible for both Mecklenburgs served to resolve disputes between the courts and administrative authorities about the admissibility of legal recourse. (State calendar 1908, p. 76)
  4. ↑ Wetzell, Georg von. In: Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 338.
  5. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1873, p. 55
personal data
SURNAME Wetzell, Georg Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wetzell, Georg Wilhelm; Wetzell, Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Hofgeismar
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1890
Place of death Rostock