Julius von Amsberg

Julius von Amsberg

Julius Georg Carl Christian von Amsberg (born February 19, 1830 in Dobbertin , † May 28, 1910 in Schwerin ) was a German lawyer and Mecklenburg minister.

Life

Julius von Amsberg was born as the son of the forest inspector in the Dobbertin monastery , Karl von Amsberg and his wife Agnes Stocks. He attended the large city school in Wismar and graduated from high school in 1849. He then studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Rostock . During his studies he became a member of the Brunsviga fraternity in 1849 . In 1854 he passed the bar exam in Rostock. From 1854 to 1857 Julius von Amsberg worked as a lawyer in Parchim . After taking the judge's exam in Schwerin in March 1857, he worked as a chancellery assessor in the grand-ducal judiciary in Schwerin until November 1857, followed by a judicial council exam and appointment to the chancellery in 1858.

In 1859 Julius von Amsberg married Emilie Podorff, the daughter of a forester from Nossentiner Hütte . The couple later had two children. His wife died in 1869.

In 1864 von Amsberg was a real judiciary at the grand ducal judicial office in Güstrow , before he switched to the lecturing council and ministerial advisor in the Ministry of Justice in 1866. Here he was responsible for spiritual, teaching and medical matters in Mecklenburg-Schwerin , at the same time he was also a member of the board of trustees of the lunatic asylums in Sachsenberg (Schwerin) and Dömitz , and a year later also of the board of trustees of the newly established “Institute for the education of mentally weak children”. From 1868 to 1870 von Amsberg was given leave to work in Berlin. Here he worked in the commission for the development of a code of civil procedure for the North German Confederation . In 1871 Julius von Amsberg was the representative of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at the Federal Council . Another leave of absence took place from September 1871 to the end of 1872 to work in the Reich Commission for the development of a code of civil procedure for the German Reich. In April 1872 he was appointed to the Higher Appeal Council at the Higher Appeal Court in Rostock . In January 1875, von Amsberg left the judicial service in Mecklenburg-Schwerin at his own request.

From 1875 to the end of 1876, von Amsberg was director of the judicial department in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. With his significant participation, new laws on procedural procedures were drawn up. In January 1877 he returned to Mecklenburg and held the post of ministerial director of the Ministry of Justice in Schwerin. After the judicial system in Mecklenburg-Schwerin was reorganized, he was appointed director and later president of the regional court in Güstrow in 1879. From 1893 to 1904 Julius von Amsberg was head of the Ministry of Justice and the departments for spiritual, educational and medical matters. From July 17 to September 30, 1901, he took on the executive office of Minister of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Affairs of the Grand Ducal House. In 1904 he was retired at his own request.

Honors

• 1869 Grand Cross with the crown in gold of the House Order of the Wendish Crown
• 1869 Royal Prussian Order of the Crown, Second Class (later also First Class)
• 1875 Commander's Cross of the House Order of the Wendish Crown
• 1875 Appointment to the Real and Secret Upper Government Council
• 1879 Star for Commander's Cross of the House Order of the Wendish Crown
• 1893 Appointment to the State Council
• 1895 Awarded the title of Excellence
• 1899 Honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock
• 1904 Awarded the title Real Privy Councilor

literature

• Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871–1952. A biographical lexicon . Edition Temmen , Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 , p. 62-63 .
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 188 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 21.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matriculation of the University of Rostock