Heinrich Marquardsen

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Heinrich Marquardsen ( from Marquardsen since 1888 ; born October 25, 1826 in Schleswig ; † November 30, 1897 in Erlangen ) was a German professor of constitutional law and an important politician and member of the National Liberal Party .

Life

Origin and education

Marquardsen came from a wealthy middle-class family. The father was a wine merchant, later also a senator in Schleswig and owned an estate. The son was supposed to take over the family inheritance and was initially not allowed to attend high school. Marquardsen continued to educate himself self-taught. Against the wishes of his parents, he was accepted into the grammar school. After that, the family put no more obstacles in his way.

Scientific career

Marquardsen began studying law in Kiel at the age of 16 . He later moved to Heidelberg , where he became a member of the Teutonia Heidelberg fraternity . In 1848 received his doctorate he became Dr. jur. He then went on study trips to Belgium and England . Marquardsen completed his habilitation in Heidelberg in 1852 with his work on "Imprisonment and surety with the Anglo-Saxons". He had planned to develop this into a history of habeas corpus law .

In Heidelberg he was a private lecturer in criminal , international and constitutional law . He was married since 1854. In 1855 he was one of the founders of the "Critical Journal for All Jurisprudence". Marquardsen was appointed professor in Heidelberg in 1857.

Between 1857 and 1861 he held an extraordinary professorship in Erlangen. After that he was full professor for German constitutional law there until 1897 . Since 1874 he was a member of the Institute for International Law. Between 1883 and 1894 he was editor of the manual of the public law of the present .

Way into politics

The Schleswig-Holstein question caused Marquardsen to turn to politics. In 1864 he was largely responsible for the preparation of a state assembly that spoke out in favor of the independence of Schleswig and Holstein. After all, 7,000 people from all over Bavaria took part. In 1864 and 1865 he was also president of the Schleswig-Holstein clubs in Bavaria.

Political party

He later played an important role in the National Liberal Party. At the national level he was a member of the executive committee and in Bavaria he was chairman of the party. Marquardsen played a key role in the Heidelberg Declaration of the National Liberal Party of 1884. If the first draft was also by Johannes Miquel , the version revised by Marquardsen was decided at the party congress.

Parliamentarians

Marquardsen was still a member of the Progressive Party from 1868 to 1870 in the customs parliament . In addition, Marquardsen was a member of the Second Bavarian Chamber between 1869 and 1892 . There he belonged successively to the factions of the Progressive Party, United Left / United Liberals and the National Liberals.

From 1871 Marquardsen was a member of the Reichstag , to which he belonged until his death. First he was a member of the faction of the Progressive Party, then the National Liberal Party. In 1878 Marquardsen became a member of the executive committee of the national liberal parliamentary group. Between 1883 and 1887 he was parliamentary group leader.

In parliament he was the chairman of the electoral review commission. He was also a member of the Judicial Law Advisory Committee. He was also a rapporteur for advising on press laws. Within the Reichstag he preferred to speak on legal and general political questions.

Other work

Marquardsen also worked largely anonymously as a daily and party-political author. He mainly wrote for the Kölnische Zeitung.

Marquardsen was honored, among other things, by being accepted into the personal nobility of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1888.

Works (selection)

editor

Marquardsen was the editor of a multi-volume manual of public law . The third volume of this work appeared in two half volumes. The first half volume was published in 1884. The second half-volume with the title Handbook of Contemporary Public Law in Monographs was published in Freiburg i. Br.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Marquardsen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Freiburg i. Br. And Tübingen; Digitized by the Berlin State Library
  2. ^ Academic publishing bookstore by JCB Mohr; The editor was a professor in Erlangen in 1888, a member of the Reichstag and the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies
personal data
SURNAME Marquardsen, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marquardsen, Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and politician (National Liberal), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1897
Place of death gain