Hermann Becker (politician, 1816)

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Hermann Heinrich Becker

Hermann Heinrich Becker (born November 11, 1816 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ; † May 7, 1898 ibid) was a German lawyer and from 1892 to 1898 President of the Oldenburg Higher Regional Court . He was also a member of the Reichstag .

Life

Legal career

Becker was the eldest son of the architect Hermann Maximilian Becker (1784–1855) and his wife Anna Henriette Charlotte nee. Wienken (1794–1861). He attended high school in Oldenburg and studied 1835-1837 jurisprudence at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and the Georg-August University of Goettingen . From 1839 he worked in the Oldenburg State Service as an auditor and district court secretary in Cloppenburg and Oldenburg. In 1846 he was transferred to Vechta as a regional court assessor. From 1849 he worked as an assistant judge and, after his promotion to the higher judge, from 1858 as a full member of the Oldenburg Higher Appeal Court , as well as a member of the legal examination commission and at times of the legislative commission. As a member of this commission, he played an important role in the reorganization of the Oldenburg judicial organization in 1857/58 and in the creation of the Oldenburg Code of Civil Procedure , which was passed on November 2nd, 1857. In 1858 he was promoted to the Council of Appeals. From 1858 he was also president of the jury court once or twice a year. In 1878 he became president of the higher court and took over the management of the three higher courts in a regional court the following year as a result of the adjustment to the judicial constitution of the German Reich. On May 2, 1892, he was finally appointed President of the Oldenburg Higher Regional Court, which emerged from the Oldenburg Higher Appeal Court. His predecessor was Bernhard Schomann . Becker held this position until he retired on March 1, 1898 at his own request . Bernhard Schomann was his successor.

Political activity

In parallel to his professional activity, Becker became increasingly involved in politics from 1848 onwards. He was chairman of the Oldenburg city council and from 1851 to 1854 initially a member of the Oldenburg state parliament , from 1863 to 1866 he acted as its president. From 1867 to 1870 he sat in the Reichstag of the North German Confederation for the constituency of Oldenburg 1 (Oldenburg-Lübeck-Birkenfeld). In a by-election on February 15, 1872 he was elected as a member of the German Reichstag for the National Liberal Party for the constituency of Oldenburg 2 ( Jever ) and represented this constituency until 1878. As a member of the Reich Justice Commission, he played an important role in the drafting of the new judicial laws and, as rapporteur for the Commission, played a key role in the creation of the code of civil procedure. In July 1878 he resigned his seat in the Reichstag in order to be able to devote himself entirely to his duties as president of the court. Becker was also active as a journalist, but without coming out with a major work. From 1858 to 1869 he was co-editor of the archive for the practice of all law applicable in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , in which he published a number of smaller articles. He published an annotated edition of the Oldenburg Code of Civil Procedure created with his assistance and worked on the manual of public law edited by Heinrich Marquardsen in 1888 .

Works

  • Law for the Duchy of Oldenburg, pertaining to the civil process. Oldenburg. 1859.
  • The constitutional law of the Duchy of Oldenburg. Published in: Heinrich Marquardsen (Hrsg.): Handbook of public law of the present. Volume III. Freiburg. 1884. pp. 73-91.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 64, short biography p. 375.
  2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 276.
  3. ^ Fritz Specht / Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd edition Berlin: Verlag Carl Heymann, 1904, p. 277

literature

  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 5, 1903, Reimer, Berlin
  • Hermann Kalkoff (Ed.): National Liberal Parliamentarians 1867–1917 of the Reichstag and the individual state parliaments. Publication distribution center of the National Liberal Party of Germany, Berlin 1917
  • Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 (with picture).
  • Hans Friedl: Becker, Hermann Heinrich. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 54-55 ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Becker, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Hermann Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldb)
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1898
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)