Hermann von Safe

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Hermann Anton Wilhelm von Safe (born September 14, 1839 in Eichstätt , † September 21, 1901 in Schönau ) was a German legal scholar and legal historian . Safer was Professor of Law and Rector of the University of Munich . He had been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1898 .

Life

Family and education

He came from a family that was raised to imperial nobility in 1735 with Johann Philipp Safe . His father Anton von Safe (1807-1840) was a Bavarian high school professor at the Latin school in Eichstätt. His mother Antoinette (1812-1883) was born Wildt from Constance . The father died just a year after Hermann was born, after which the family settled in Munich .

There Safe attended the Ludwigsgymnasium , which he left with the Abitur in 1857 . He passed his school leaving examination with distinction, for which he was awarded a gold medal donated by King Maximilian . In the same year he began studying at the philosophy faculty at Munich University. After the second semester, he decided to study law , but continued to be interested in history. The question of the history of Elector Friedrich the Victorious of the Palatinate , asked by the philosophical faculty, was able to decide in his favor in 1860 with a thesis on the subject. Already during his high school days, but also later during his studies, he often spent the holidays in the house of his maternal great-uncle Hermann von Vicari , the archbishop of Freiburg .

Professional background

In 1862 he received his doctorate at the University of Munich with the dissertation Legitimation of the bill holder through a blank giro preceding the protest. A reciprocal attempt to become a doctor of both rights . Safer received a travel grant and attended the University of Berlin for two semesters and the University of Göttingen for one semester . In Berlin he attended lectures from Leopold von Ranke and Theodor Mommsen , in Göttingen he attended seminars from Georg Waitz . After the second state examination in law in 1865, he qualified as a professor at the law faculty of Munich University with the habilitation thesis on total lending in German principalities . The subject of his work was topical at the moment, as a dispute over the succession to the throne of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein broke out after the German-Danish War in 1864.

In June 1868 he received an extraordinary professorship and in 1871, after he had turned down a call to the Federal University of Zurich , a full professorship for German legal and political history. For the Encyclopedia of Jurisprudence by Franz von Holtzendorff , he wrote an adaptation of the law on bill of exchange. From 1859 to 1872, Sicherheitser edited a detailed commentary on the Reich Law on the private law position of commercial and business cooperatives. Before the completion of this work, he began with the preparatory work for his main work State and Church in Bavaria from the assumption of government of Elector Maximilian Joseph IV. To the Declaration of Tegernsee 1799-1821, which appeared for the first time in 1874. It contained an extensive appendix of documents and sources and is still considered a standard work today. It played a major role in the ecclesiastical political disputes of the 1870s during the Kulturkampf , and attacks against security by political Catholicism were inevitable. A supplement to the work was his publication on marriage and marriage jurisdiction in Bavaria from 1875, in which he was again able to evaluate numerous official files.

In 1879 he received the offer to move to the Reich Justice Office as a secret councilor , which he refused because he did not want to give up his academic work. From 1881 until his death he was a member of the administrative committee of Munich University. The death of his mother in 1883, with whom he lived in a household, shook him deeply. A year later he married Hermine Freiin von Erskine in Seefeld , the daughter of Baron James Stuart von Erskine and Countess Wilhelmine von Toerring-Minucci . The marriage remained childless. They moved into a house on Koeniginstrasse in Munich opposite the English Garden . Through his wife he came into social contact with circles of the Bavarian aristocracy. The origin of his wife from an old aristocratic family prompted him to write a legal-historical report on the house of the Counts of Toerring and the estate of Gutenzell , which appeared in 1886.

From 1888 to 1889 he was appointed rector of Munich University. In his rector's speech in 1888 ,icher spoke about law studies in Germany now and then . It was published that same year. In 1896 he was awarded the title and rank of a Privy Councilor for his services . Since 1898 he was a full member of the historical class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In December 1899, he gave a highly acclaimed lecture at the Academy on Ercole Consalvi and the conclusion of the French Concordat of 1801.

In his free time, he often went hiking and mountaineering in the Bavarian and Austrian Alps . He was close friends with the Freiburg church historian Franz Xaver Kraus , and both of them exchanged lively letters. In the spring of 1901, Safer fell ill with a serious heart condition. He had to interrupt his lectures, but initially continued the business of the university's financial administration. Hermann von Safe died on September 21, 1901, at the age of 62, in Schönau am Königssee. He was buried in the old south cemetery in Munich in the family crypt under the arcades.

Honors and memberships

Hermann von Safe has received numerous awards over the years. He was the holder of the Royal Bavarian Order of Merit of St. Michael II Class, Knight of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , Knight of the Royal Prussian Red Eagle Order II, Commander II Class of the Grand Ducal Baden Order of Berthold the First , Commander of the Royal Greek Order of Redeemer and the Grand-Ducal Luxembourg Order of the Oak Crown .

Safer was the deputy chairman of the board of trustees of the Bluntschli Foundation, an external member of the Society for Canon Law Studies in Göttingen, a corresponding member of the Société d'histoire diplomatique in Paris and a member of the central committee of the international history congress.

In his honor, the Hermann-von-Safe-Strasse in Munich- Sendling was named.

Publications (selection)

  • Legitimation of the bill holder by a blank giro preceding the protest. A mutual attempt. ( Dissertation ), Munich 1862. ( digitized )
  • About the total feoff in German principalities. ( Habilitation thesis ), Munich 1865. ( digitized )
  • The cooperative legislation in Germany. Commentary on the Reich Law on the Private Law Position of Commercial and Economic Cooperatives, taking into account the Bavarian Cooperative Law. Erlangen 1872. ( digitized )
  • State and Church in Bavaria. From the assumption of government of Elector Maximilian Joseph IV to the declaration of Tegernsee 1799-1821. Munich 1874. ( digitized )
  • About marriage law and jurisdiction in Bavaria. Using official documents. Munich 1875. ( digitized )
  • German private law. Munich 1878.
  • Civil status and marriage in Germany. Explanation of the Imperial Law of February 6, 1875 on the certification of civil status and marriage. Erlangen 1879.
  • The Bavarian-Greek loan from the years 1835, 1836, 1837. A legal opinion. Munich 1880.
  • The house of the Counts of Törring and the estate of Gutenzell. A legal opinion. Munich 1886.
  • Secundogenitur and Primogenitur. Munich 1887.
  • About studying law in Germany now and then. Speech given at the beginning of the rectorate of the Ludwig Maximilians University on December 1, 1888. Munich 1888.
  • The imperial class property of the house of Fugger. A legal opinion. Munich 1896.

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SURNAME Safer, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Safer, Hermann Anton Wilhelm von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Eichstatt
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1901
Place of death Schönau