Immediate lecture
Immediate lecture is a historical term in the Prussian and German legal language for a personal lecture or report given immediately before the Prussian king or the German emperor .
Not everyone at court or in the empire had the opportunity to discuss matters or concerns directly with the king or emperor. Access to the monarch was largely restricted to a certain group of people. This gave them the opportunity to exert direct political influence. " I prevailed through immediate lectures before the king ... " ( Freiherr vom Stein )
The term is also used in the more recent historical literature, applied analogously to a lecture given directly to a non-monarchical head of government, e.g. B. before the President of the United States of America or the British Prime Minister.
Individual evidence
- ↑ General Land Law for the Prussian States of 1794. With an introduction by Hans Hattenhauer and a bibliography by G. Bernert. Metzner, Frankfurt am Main 1970.
- ↑ Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (ed.): German legal dictionary: dictionary of the older German legal language. Böhlau, Weimar; Reprinted in 1998. Volume VI, column 199.
- ↑ Freiherr vom Stein; Edited by Erich Botzenhart : Stein, Carl Friedrich vom and zum: Correspondence, memoranda and notes. Volume I-VII. Heymann, Berlin 1931–1937. Volume V, 1934, p. 402.
- ↑ Martin van Creveld : Faces of War. The change in armed conflict from 1900 to the present day. Settlers. Munich 2009, ISBN 9783886808953 .