Hermann Techow

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Eduard Hermann Robert Techow (occasionally also Eduard Herrmann Robert Techow ; born August 25, 1838 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † December 25, 1909 in Berlin ) was a German judicial and administrative officer and advisor to the Japanese government in the Meiji era .

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Hermann Techow was born in 1838 as the son of the Rastenburg high school director Friedrich Techow . After attending the Knight Academy in Brandenburg and the high school in Rastenburg, he learned agriculture and studied law and political science in Bonn , Berlin and Königsberg . During his studies he became a member of the Teutonia Bonn fraternity in 1856 and of the Königsberg fraternity in Gothia in 1859 . After positions as a court trainee (1861) and court assessor (1865) Techow became a district judge in Ortelsburg in 1867 . Three years later he switched to the public prosecutor's office and initially worked at the district and jury court in Lyck (1870), later at the district court in Tilsit (1877) as a public prosecutor . 1878 left Techow the judiciary and was Executive Council , General Counsel and Board of Directors at the Provincial School College in Berlin .

In 1884, on the recommendation of the Prussian Ministry of Culture , Techow was brought to Japan by the Japanese envoy in Berlin, Aoki Shūzō , to advise the local government on technical matters. Upon arrival, however, the government charged him with drafting a Japanese code of civil procedure. Its draft, which was largely based on the German Civil Procedure Code of 1877, was presented in 1886 and, after minor changes, was announced by the Japanese Ministry of Justice in 1890 and put into effect in 1891.

After the end of his activities in Japan Techow returned to Germany in 1887 and became senior councilor and director of the church and school department in the government in Breslau . In 1890 he became a senior administrative judge at the Berlin Higher Administrative Court and in 1893 President of the Senate .

Awards

literature

  • Paul-Christian Schenck: The German part in shaping the modern Japanese legal and constitutional system: German legal advisers in Japan during the Meiji period . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997.
  • Japan and Prussia . Iudicium Verlag, Munich 2002.
  • Hideo Nakamura: Japan and German civil procedure law: anthology of civil procedure treatises . tape 2 . Seibundo, Tokyo 2007.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , p. 12.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Dvorak, p. 12 he died on January 25, 1909.
  2. ^ Paul-Christian Schenck: The German part in shaping the modern Japanese legal and constitutional system: German legal advisors in Japan during the Meiji period . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, p. 342 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Röhl in: Japan and Prussia . Iudicium Verlag, Munich 2002, p. 191 .
  4. ↑ Hideo Nakamura: Japan and the German civil procedure law: anthology of civil procedure treatises . tape 2 . Seibundo, Tokyo 2007, p. 140 .
  5. ↑ Junko Ando in: Japan and Prussia . Iudicium Verlag, Munich 2002, p. 9 .
  6. ^ Paul-Christian Schenck: The German part in shaping the modern Japanese legal and constitutional system: German legal advisors in Japan during the Meiji period . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, p. 342 .
personal data
SURNAME Techow, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Techow, Eduard Hermann Robert (full name); Techow, Eduard Herrmann Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judicial and administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1909
Place of death Berlin