Hermann von Schelling

Grave site in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg

Ludwig Hermann von Schelling , ennobled in 1857 (born April 19, 1824 in Erlangen , † November 15, 1908 in Berlin ), was a German lawyer , royal Prussian state and justice minister and crown syndicate .

Life

origin

Hermann Schelling was the youngest son of 1812 in the Bavarian personal nobility raised philosopher Friedrich Schelling (1775-1854) and his second wife Pauline gods (1786-1854).

Career

It was the age of eighteen with a dissertation from the classical studies in 1842 in Munich to Dr  phil. PhD.

After studying law , Schelling joined the Prussian judicial service in 1844, which marked the beginning of a long and varied career in the German judiciary. He was appointed assessor in 1849 , three years later he was promoted to public prosecutor in Hechingen, came to the Berlin city court in 1861 and two years later as a councilor to the appellate court in Glogau .

In 1864 he was sent to the Ministry of Justice for further employment as a Prussian civil servant. There Schelling got the post of lecturing council as a judicial councilor in 1866 and was appointed a member of the investigative commission. Three years later he reached the position of a Secret Higher Justice Council, worked from 1873 as a member of the Court of Justice for Church Affairs and one year later as President of the Halberstadt Court of Appeal.

In 1875 he was entrusted with the office of Vice President in the Prussian Upper Tribunal, Prussia's highest court in Berlin. In the Ministry of Justice he was on December 14, 1876 Undersecretary of State . In 1877 he was President of the Disciplinary Court for non-judicial officials and from November 19, 1879, he was State Secretary of the Reich Justice Office at the head of German legal policy.

After almost ten years he ended this office on January 31, 1889 and became Prussian Minister of State and Justice. In this position he initiated work on the civil code . When he took office in 1899, he became a member of the Prussian mansion and crown syndicate.

After leaving the judicial service on November 13, 1894, he dealt with philology and brought a. a. In 1896 a translation of the Odyssey was published.

Schelling was raised to the Prussian nobility on March 25, 1857 in Charlottenburg .

In 1891, Duke Friedrich I von Anhalt awarded him the Grand Cross of the ducal house order of Albrecht the Bear .

family

Schelling's first marriage was on March 31, 1857 in Bodelshausen, Leonie Freiin Billing von Treuburg (born September 24, 1838 in Hechingen ; † May 26, 1877 in Berlin), the daughter of the royal Prussian chamberlain and royal Hohenzollern-Heching real privy councilor Gustav Freiherr Billing from Treuburg and Amalie Bayl . In his second marriage, he married Margarete Wilckens on April 12, 1882 in Berlin (* July 12, 1840 in Potsdam , † November 21, 1897 in Berlin), the daughter of the secret finance councilor Friedrich Wilckens and Agnes Guariglias .

literature

• Hartwin Spenkuch:  Schelling, Hermann von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 657 ( digitized version ).
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B Volume VIII, page 376, Volume 36 of the complete series, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1965, ISSN  0435-2408
• Acta Borussica Volume 5 (1858–1866) ( Memento from January 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Acta Borussica Volume 6 / I (1867–1878)
• Acta Borussica Volume 6 / II (1867–1878)
• Acta Borussica Volume 7 (1879–1890) (PDF file; 2.83 MB)
• Acta Borussica Volume 8 / I (1890–1900) (PDF file; 2.72 MB)
• Acta Borussica Volume 8 / II (1890–1900) (PDF file; 2.19 MB)
• Acta Borussica Volume 9 (1900–1909) (PDF file; 2.74 MB)

Web links

• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Michael Körner and collaboration with Bruno Jahn (Ed.): Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia. 3 volumes, KG Saur, Munich 2005, volume 3, p. 1711 f.