Gustav von Wilmowski

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Gustav Karl Adolf von Wilmowski (born August 17, 1818 in Paderborn , † December 28, 1896 in Berlin ) was a German legal scholar , lawyer and notary . Wilmowski was one of Otto von Bismarck's close confidants , whom he temporarily supported as legal advisor and who appointed him as the general representative of his possessions in Pomerania .

Life

family

The Wilmowski family, also Wilmowsky , was raised to the Polish nobility in 1558 by King Sigismund II August of Poland . In 1561 members of the family received a Bohemian coat of arms . Wilhelm Karl von Wilmowski (born November 9, 1785, † August 26, 1842), Gustav's father, was appointed a secret judge and higher regional judge in Naumburg an der Saale . His mother Charlotte Adolfine (born September 5, 1796, † March 28, 1869) was born Kurlbaum. They married on December 26, 1815 in Bielefeld .

Gustav, the couple's second oldest child, had three brothers and two sisters. His older brother Karl von Wilmowski (* 1817) died in 1893 as a secret cabinet councilor and member of the Prussian mansion . In 1888 he was recognized as a baron in the Kingdom of Prussia. His son Kurt Freiherr von Wilmowsky (1850-1941) became head of the Reich Chancellery, Upper President of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein and Governor of the Province of Saxony.

Professional background

Wilmowski attended grammar schools in Paderborn and Bonn and studied law at the universities in Bonn and Berlin . In September 1838 he joined the Prussian judicial service as an ausculator at the Naumburg regional and municipal court. In October 1844 he got a regular job as a senior judge at the Wollstein district and town court .

In July 1849 he settled in Schlawe as a lawyer . After Otto von Bismarck acquired the Varzin estate in 1867 , he became its general agent and legal advisor. He had close personal contact with the Chancellor and was in lively correspondence with him. Wilmowski was Bismarck's link with the local Pomeranian authorities. He signed contracts for him and supported Bismarck in personnel and financial matters. He described his experiences and impressions in the book My memories of Bismarck , which his son published from his written estate four years after his death . In 1867 he was awarded the title of judicial councilor . In the same year his much-acclaimed book Lübisches Recht appeared in Pomerania .

Due to a better upbringing and education of his children Wilmowski went to Breslau as a lawyer in 1869 . In 1870 he published the work Contributions to the Pomeranian feudal law . He was particularly interested in the redesign of court organization and procedural legislation. He participated in the preparations with numerous articles in magazines and through reports for the Prussian Lawyers ' Conference and the German Lawyers' Conference . His moderate criticism of the North German draft of the Code of Civil Procedure in the journal Justice Ministerial for the Prussian law and justice a German, it was 1871 to 1872, the appointment to the Federal Commission for the preparation of Civil Procedure, which on October 1, 1879 as part of the kingdom of justice laws in Strength kicked.

In April 1872 Wilmowski was transferred to Berlin , where he worked as a lawyer and notary at the city court, since 1879 at the regional court and from July 1883 at the higher court . In Berlin he was a long-time member of the Bar Association of the Chamber District and was chairman for a while. Together with his lawyer colleague Meyer Levy , he edited the Commentar on the Civil Proceßordnung , which appeared in two volumes in 1878 and was printed in its seventh edition in 1896. In 1882 he was given the title of a secret judiciary. Three years later, Wilmowski published his book on the German Reich Bankruptcy Code . In 1888, in the year of his fiftieth anniversary of service, he was awarded the Order of the Crown, Second Class, and was awarded an honorary doctorate in law by the law faculty of Berlin University. He did not retire until 1891.

In accordance with his moderately liberal outlook, Wilmowski defended himself energetically and successfully in recent years against attempts to restrict the free lawyer with his writings The Planned Restriction of the Free Advocacy and On the Organization of the Legal Profession. He was a member of the permanent deputation of the Juristentag, in which he was secretary from 1880 to 1888 . In the legal society of Berlin he held the office of treasurer . Still in retirement, he gave legal opinions and managed financial relationships. In 1894, one year after the death of his brother Karl, he published his field letters from the Franco-German War .

Gustav von Wilmowski died on December 28, 1896, at the age of 78 in Berlin.

Marriage and offspring

Wilmowski married on June 2, 1846 in Westerhüsen , today a district of Magdeburg , Maria Gottvertrau Knorr (born October 30, 1820 in Westerhüsen; † January 24, 1869 in Schlawe ). The couple had nine children, five daughters and four sons. The eldest daughter Balida Adolfine married the doctor of medicine and pastor in Glewitz Wilhelm Ziemssen. The eldest son Richard Paul died unmarried in 1882 as a first lieutenant in the Grenadier Regiment "King William I" (2nd West Prussian) No. 7 son Max settled in San Miguel de Tucuman in Argentina down and his brother Paul went to the United States after New York City .

Marcell von Wilmowski, the eighth child, became, like his father, a lawyer and later a Prussian government councilor and a member of the Berlin ministerial, military and building commission. He edited My Memories of Bismarck from his father's estate . His marriage to Gertrud Laura Ziemssen had two sons and two daughters.

Publications (selection)

author

  • About lower criminal justice and popular law. Glogau 1848.
  • Germany's borders, namely against Denmark and Poland. Glogau 1848.
  • Luebian law in Pomerania. Berlin 1867. ( digitized)
  • Contributions to the Pomeranian feudal law. Berlin 1870. ( digitized)
  • The bankruptcy procedure according to the Reich bankruptcy code of February 10, 1877 is shown in a legal case. Berlin 1879.
  • For the practical application of the German Code of Civil Procedure. Lectures held at the Berlin Lawyers' Association. Berlin 1879.
  • My memories of Bismarck. ( posthumously ), Breslau 1900. ( digitized)

Editor and editor

  • Code of civil procedure and court constitution law for the German Reich together with the introductory laws. With comment in notes. with Meyer Levy, 2 volumes, Berlin 1878.
  • German Reich bankruptcy code. Berlin 1878. ( digitized )
  • Hand edition of the Civil Procedure Code and the Courts Constitution Act for the German Reich on the basis of your commentary. with Meyer Levy, Berlin 1884.
  • Field letters 1870/71 from Karl von Wilmowski. Along with biographical information. Wroclaw 1894.

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