Heinrich Sievers (lawyer)

Johann Daniel Heinrich Sievers (born February 27, 1848 in Hildesheim , † October 4, 1918 in Leipzig ) was President of the Senate at the Imperial Court .

Life

After attending grammar school in Bonn, he studied law in Munich, Göttingen, Heidelberg and Bonn. He participated as volunteer Annual at War 70/71 in the Hussars. 7 in part. In mid-July 1870 Sievers was sworn in and worked as a trainee lawyer in Frankfurt am Main and Bonn. He was married to Charlotte Stintzing. In 1876 he took up the profession of lawyer. He worked in Bremen for many years. In 1879 he became a government attorney. In 1892 he was appointed higher regional judge in Hamburg, in 1896 he came to the imperial court at the suggestion of the Hanseatic cities. In 1912 he became President of the Second Civil Senate of the Reich Court . He died in office. Dr. Sievers was the leader of the Saxon National Liberals.

Works (selection)

• "Duplicates and copies of bills of exchange according to English law: A legal case", archive for theory and practice of general German commercial and bill of exchange law, new series Volume 22 = Volume 47 (1887), p. 45 .
• "What does the new commercial code change in maritime law?" Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung, Volume 2 (1897), Col. 289.
• "Is it advisable to specify the responsibilities of the members of the board of directors of a public company?" Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung, Volume 11 (1906), Col. 901 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ After Degener's; Only Hanseate is in the list at Lobe.
2. ↑ Hubert Wania: "15 Years of Bremen: 1906-1920", Bremen 1930 (reprint 2010), p. 201.
3. ^ Association of German Academies (ed.): "German Biographical Yearbook", Volume 2, Berlin / Leipzig 1928, p. 705.

literature

• Adolf Lobe : “Fifty Years of the Reich Court on October 1, 1929”, Berlin 1929, p. 345.
• Richard Mansfeld : "† Heinrich Sievers." Obituary in the Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung, year 23 (1918), column 686 .
• Herrmann AL Degener : “Degener's who is it? “, VI. Edition, Berlin 1912, p. 1512.