Heinrich Gottfried Wilhelm Daniels

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Heinrich Gottfried Wilhelm Daniels , (* December 25, 1754 in Cologne ; † March 28, 1827 there ) was a German lawyer who achieved significant achievements as a university lecturer , judge and author in the French era and in the Prussian Rhineland .

Life

Heinrich Gottfried Wilhelm Daniels statue in the Higher Regional Court of Cologne by the sculptor Johann Peter Schilling.
Daniels statue (left) on the town hall tower

Daniels came from a humble background, his father was a master tailor. Nevertheless, he was able to attend the college in his hometown . There he studied Artes liberales , was licensed in 1769 and a year later doctor of philosophy . At that time his main interest was mathematics , but he also studied law .

In 1775 he became a Doctor of Laws doctorate and when in November advocate the seven-member Electoral Cologne dicastery in Bonn approved. Elector Maximilian Franz of Austria appointed him to the Cologne Appeals Commissariat in 1780, to a professorship at the Bonn Academy in 1783 , to Hofrat in 1786 and to a member of the Higher Appeal Court in Bonn in 1792. After the French invasion, he was appointed a member of the High Tribunal of the Department de Rhin-et-Moselle in Bonn. But because he refused to take the oath in 1797 and the universities were abolished in 1798, he was left without offices. In the same year he was appointed as a law teacher in the new Cologne Central School , the successor to the universities, until its dissolution in 1802 (successor to the law school in Koblenz in 1806). During this time he translated the Code Napoléon (published in 1805) and gave private lectures.

During Emperor Napoleon's visit to the canton of Cologne in 1804, Daniels was appointed deputy (substitute) general procurator at the court of cassation in Paris . He took up this position in 1805. In 1813 he was transferred to the Court of Appeal in Brussels as General Procurator . After the Wars of Liberation he entered Prussian service in 1817 and after a short time in Berlin, where he was a member of the Prussian State Council for the maintenance of progressive French law in the Rhineland, he was appointed the first President of the Rhenish Court of Appeal in Cologne in 1819 .

Possessions

On April 4, 1807, Daniels had the Liège brokerage firm Defay & Minette auction the Fischenicher Fronhof of the St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne, which was secularized in 1802, for 54,000 francs. The estate included 64.5 hectares of land. Daniels remained the owner of the farm until his death. In 1811 Daniels acquired Metternich Castle . After his death, it was sold again by his daughter. Daniels is also said to have been a member of the Illuminati Order.

Afterlife

A street in Cologne-Neuehrenfeld was named after Gottfried Daniels . His figure is also part of the figure program on the tower of Cologne City Hall .

Fonts

  • Laws on succession, gifts and wills in France. Keil, Cologne 1805 ( digitized version ).
  • Lectures of the secret state councilor Daniels on the statute law of Khur Cologne, city of Cologne and Jülich and Berg, given in 1800 in Cologne : a lecture transcript (University and City Library Cologne 5 P 233). LIT Verlag Münster, 2008 (Ed. By Christoph Becker )

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Erich Meuthen : Little Cologne University History . Rector of the University of Cologne, Cologne 1998, p. 27.
  2. ↑ Daniels. In: Ulrich S. Soénius , Jürgen Wilhelm (Hrsg.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven-Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 .
  3. ↑ Clemens Klug: HGW Daniels, a servant of the law. In: Hürther Heimat. Vol. 63/64, 1989, ISSN  1864-5348 , p. 18 ff.
  4. ↑ Metternich at the Dunker Collection ( Memento of the original dated June 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 221 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zlb.de
  5. ↑ Illuminati list ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wiki.illuminaten.de
  6. ↑ 50 ° 57 '35.2 "  N , 6 ° 55' 14"  E
  7. ^ Image of the figure of Daniel on the town hall tower + appreciation
personal data
SURNAME Daniels, Heinrich Gottfried Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1827
Place of death Cologne