Hugo Appelius

Hugo Constantin Cuno Oskar August Appelius (born September 10, 1855 in Hessisch Lichtenau , † August 16, 1907 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German lawyer . His book on the treatment of juvenile criminals and neglected children is considered to be groundbreaking for the beginnings of juvenile criminal law because Appelius gave the idea of ​​upbringing priority over criminal law .

The son of a renting assistant attended high school in Kassel and began studying law in Marburg after graduating from high school in 1875 . In the winter semester of 1876/77 he studied in Göttingen . In July 1878 he passed the legal traineeship examination in Kassel and received his doctorate in Jena in 1878 . After a long traineeship in Kassel, he became an assessor in March 1883 and stayed with the Kassel public prosecutor until September 1890 . He then switched to the Elberfeld public prosecutoruntil he became public prosecutor in Göttingen in 1893. His further career led him to the senior public prosecutor in Celle . In 1900 he became a member of the chamber judge at the chamber court in Berlin . Here he held the office of a "personal council". In 1906 he became a member of the Disciplinary Court for the Protected Areas . He died in 1907 while taking a spa stay .

Appelius initially made a name for himself as a criminal lawyer and criminalist . He published fundamental works on the treatment of juvenile criminals and worked on Stenglein's commentary on the ancillary criminal law and on Rüdorff's text edition of the penal code . Later he mainly worked on civil law and wrote a commentary on the trade regulations and an introduction to studying the civil code .

Fonts

• Is it necessary to increase the number of legal remedies in criminal proceedings? A burning question of the present. , Kassel 1884.
• The conditional conviction and the other substitutes for short term imprisonment. 2nd edition, Cassel 1890.
• The resolutions of the Second Annual Meeting of the International Criminal Association Hall 25/26. March 1891 regarding the tightening of the short term imprisonment, the restructuring of the fine and the subsidiary penalty. Guttentag, Berlin 1891.
• Treating juvenile criminals and neglected children. Report of the commission elected by the International Criminalist Association (Gruppe Deutsches Reich). Guttentag, Berlin 1892.
• with Hans Rüdorff: Criminal Code for the German Empire. In addition to the most common imperial penal laws (post, vaccination, press ... etc.); Text output with note 16th edition. Guttentag, Berlin 1892.
• with Melchior Stenglein and Georg Kleinfeller: Comments on the criminal ancillary laws. Liebmann, Berlin 1892.
• Trade regulations for the German Reich in their current form, along with the implementing provisions issued for the Reich and Prussia and an appendix, contains the most important laws and ordinances. In: Stenglein, Melchior: The criminal law ancillary laws of the German Empire. 1893.
• As an introduction to studying the Civil Code and its subsidiary laws. Nauck, Berlin 1900.
• The concept of the responsible editor and the practice. In: Journal for the entire field of criminal law. 27 (1907) 1907, pp. 657-676.
• with Friedrich Oskar von Schwarze and Erich Wulffen: Reichs-Pressgesetz. 5th edition. Schweitzer, Munich, Berlin & Leipzig 1914.

literature

• Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung 12 (1907), Col. 947.
• Rudolf Bonnet: The dead of the Marburg fraternity Arminia . Part 1, CVs d. until release d. Sammlg deceased 146 members, whose affiliation to Arminia in d. Period falls from SS 1860 to SS 1895 . Frankfurt a. M. 1926.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ellen Schlüchter: Plea for the thought of education. W. de Gruyter, Berlin 1994, p. 8f.