Hugo Haelschner

Hugo Philipp Egmont Haelschner (born March 29, 1817 in Hirschberg (Silesia), † March 17, 1889 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and criminalist.

Haelschner devoted himself to jurisprudence at the universities of Breslau and Berlin , here under Savigny , but also pursued philosophical and mathematical-scientific studies with preference.

After obtaining his legal doctorate in Halle in 1842, he began teaching as a private lecturer at the University of Bonn in 1843 . In 1847 he was promoted to associate professor, in 1850 to full professor of law, in 1868 he was appointed a member of the Prussian manor house for life, and in 1870 he was appointed secret councilor. In 1857/58 he was the rector of the university.

Fonts (selection)

Among his writings, in which his direction towards Hegelian philosophy emerges, the most important are:

History of the Brandenburg-Prussian criminal law (Bonn 1855)
System of Prussian criminal law (Bonn 1858 and 1868, 2 parts)
Common German criminal law (Bonn 1881–84, 2 vols.)
The Prussian Constitutional Question (Bonn 1846)
Legal studies in Prussia (Bonn 1859)
German law in dispute with Denmark (3rd edition, Bonn 1863)
The right to the throne of the Princely House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (Bonn 1864)
Contributions to the assessment of the draft penal code for the North German Confederation (Bonn 1870).

Haelschner provided valuable treatises in various journals, such as the Prussian yearbooks , in the courtroom and in Goltdammer's archive for criminal law .

literature

Dietrich Oehler: Hälschner, Hugo Philipp Egmont. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 433 f. ( Digitized version ).
Ernst Landsberg : Hälschner, Hugo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 731-734.

Web links

Literature by and about Hugo Haelschner in the catalog of the German National Library
Hugo Haelschner . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)

personal data
SURNAME	Haelschner, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Haelschner, Hugo Philipp Egmont; Haelschner, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hirschberg
DATE OF DEATH	March 17, 1889
Place of death	Bonn