Hugo von Meyer

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Hugo von Meyer portrays on a painting from the collection of the Tübingen Professorengalerie
Grave in the Tübingen city cemetery

Hugo Friedrich Bleichert Meyer , from 1901 by Meyer , (born February 17, 1837 in Stettin , † May 29, 1902 in Tübingen ) was a German lawyer , criminal law teacher and university professor .

Life

Hugo Meyer, son of the Prussian Real Secret War Councilor Theodor Meyer , attended high schools in Frankfurt / Oder, Posen and Münster as a result of his father's official transfers and relocations of the family. After passing high school in 1854, he began studying law in Göttingen, where he joined the Hannovera fraternity . He completed his studies in Berlin and returned to Göttingen. There he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD; two years later he completed his habilitation at Georgia Augusta and became a private lecturer in criminal law.

In 1863 the University of Halle appointed him associate professor, and in 1866 full professor for criminal law. He accepted a call from the University of Erlangen in 1871, before becoming professor for criminal law and criminal procedure law in Tübingen in 1874. Here he worked until his death, was rector of the Eberhard Karls University in 1888/89 and was ennobled in 1901 by being awarded the Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württemberg Crown .

After the penal code for the German Empire came into force on January 1, 1871, Hugo Meyer wrote the first important textbook on German criminal law, which he was responsible for up to the 5th edition in 1895. After his death, Philipp Allfeld (1852-1940, since 1889 district judge in Munich, was appointed full professor for criminal law, legal encyclopedia and international law at the University of Erlangen in 1895) under the names of both authors managed the edition of this work up to the 9th edition in 1934 . Some of his criminal proceedings papers show that Meyer this occurred, the trial by jury (in the true sense) by Schöffengerichte to replace what indeed a departure from achievements of the March revolution of 1848 meant, but should contribute to increasing legal certainty.

Hugo Meyer wrote a large number of poems in which he expressed his joy at the bravery of German soldiers and the successes of the German warfare in 1870/71 as well as the establishment of the German Empire. In addition, he dealt with descriptions of criminal offenses in relation to criminal law in the aesthetic literature.

A portrait of Meyers by the hand of the painter Rudolf Thost is in the Tübingen Professorengalerie .

Publications

  • Factual and legal questions in the jury, especially in the question to the jury, Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1860
  • The criminal proceedings against the absent, Berlin: Verlag von Georg Reimer, 1869
  • North German criminal law: an assessment of the draft penal code for the North German Confederation, Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1869
  • The question of the jury, examined by the task of the jury, Erlangen: Verlag von Andreas Deichert, 1873
  • Justice in criminal law, Stuttgart: Kröner, 1881
  • From a great time: The war against France in 1870 and 1871, 2nd edition, Tübingen: Laupp, 1887
  • The parties in the criminal process, Erlangen and Leipzig: Deichert, 1889
  • Free will and criminal law: a lecture by Hugo Meyer, Erlangen and Leipzig: Andr. Deichertsche Verlag Buchhandlung, 1890
  • International criminal law and extradition, Tübingen: 1890
  • Hamlet and the blood revenge, Leipzig: A. Deichert, 1892
  • Textbook of German criminal law, 5th edition, Erlangen and Leipzig: A. Deichertsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1895
  • International mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, Berlin: Stilke, 1898

literature

  • Hugo v. Meyer † . Schwäbischer Merkur 1902, No. 249, p. 5 f.
  • Ludwig von Bar: Hugo von Meyer † . Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung 1902, p. 334 f.
  • Anton Bettelheim: Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog , Volume VII, 1902, Berlin: Printed and published by Georg Reimer, 1903, p. 79
  • Theodor Kolde: The University of Erlangen under the Wittelsbach family 1810-1910 , Erlangen and Leipzig: A. Deichert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Nachf., 1910, p. 436 and 532
  • Wilhelm Ebel: CATALOGUS PROFESSORUM GOTTINGENSIUM , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962, p. 68
  • Renate Wittern : The professors and lecturers at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743-1960 , Erlangen: 1993, p. 148 f.
  • Henning Tegtmeyer : Hugo von Meyer: criminal lawyer and writer , in: Bundeszeitung der Burschenschaft Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 104 (New Series), October 2014, No. 2, pp. 65–71

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From Great Times: The War Against France 1870 and 1871
  2. ↑ Hamlet and the blood revenge, Leipzig: A. Deichert, 1892
  3. ↑ studion.uni-tuebingen.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (also on Commons )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.studion.uni-tuebingen.de  
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Hugo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Hugo; Meyer, Hugo Friedrich Bleichert von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminal lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1902
Place of death Tübingen