Karl Edwin Leuthold

Karl Edwin Leuthold (born February 17, 1847 in Königsbrück , † May 1, 1891 in Freiberg ) was a German lawyer and mining lawyer .

biography

He was the son of the Königsbrück court director and city councilor Karl Otto Leuthold and his wife Mathilde Agnes, nee. Menzer. Leuthold grew up in Pulsnitz after his father settled there as a lawyer. He received private tuition and on April 16, 1860, was accepted into the Dresden Kreuzschule as an upper quarters . In 1866 he graduated with honors. From 1866 to 1869 he studied law as well as economics , history and legal philosophy at the University of Leipzig . In 1868 Leuthold received a public commendation for a prize assignment. A year later he passed the legal practice examination and the Baccalaureat with distinction. In December 1869 Leuthold received his doctorate juris utriusque .

After a brief activity at the Leipzig II court office, Leuthold switched from justice to administration. Here he worked in 1870 as a trainee lawyer with the city of Chemnitz and between 1870 and 1873 at the police office of the city of Leipzig . On July 22, 1872 he married Helene Kogel in Leipzig and in 1873 his first son Edwin Otto was born there.

In the same year he got a job as a police officer at the Dresden Police Department and in October 1873 passed the state examination in law with an excellent grade. In 1874 his second son Karl Martin was born and Leuthold was appointed secretary in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. Here he was active in building police matters and was appointed assistant officer in 1876.

On October 1, 1876, Leuthold received his appointment to legal advice at the Royal Saxon Mining Authority and the obligation to professor for mining law and general law at the Freiberg Mining Academy . In 1882 he became the father of a daughter, Agnes Auguste Helene. Between 1878 and 1883 Prof. Dr. Leuthold member of the Senate of the Bergakademie. From October 1, 1883 until his death, he succeeded Bernhard Braunsdorf as director of the royal Saxon mining office in Freiberg . A centuries-old tradition came to an end with his appointment; the lawyer Leuthold was the first highest mining official in Saxony who had no mining training. In 1885 his second daughter Mathilde Anna was born.

Leuthold published a large number of legal and mining law works, his essays appeared in various magazines and specialist publications. For his work Russian legal studies , Leuthold took a three-year course in Russian . He also wrote essays on German, Austrian and French mining law. Significant are his remarks on the Freiberg mining constitution in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries in the Zeitschrift für Bergrecht as well as the investigations into the oldest history of Freiberg in the New Archive for Saxon History and Archeology .

As director of the mining authority, he focused on mining safety and the social security of miners. His most important work was the first general mountain police regulations for the Kingdom of Saxony , published on March 25, 1886 . On January 1, 1891, Leuthold established the General Knappschaftspensionskasse for the Kingdom of Saxony .

Leuthold was also strongly committed to the common good. He was a city councilor in Freiberg and a member of the church council. He was also a member of the assessment committee. In 1886 and 1889 he was head of the electoral committee of the united parties of order, which were able to successfully prevail against the growing social democracy . As a platform for the socially committed Protestant population, Leuthold founded the association for people's welfare "Feierabend" in Freiberg in 1888 with the aim of creating a counterpoint to the emerging social democracy. Until his death he headed the association, which grew to over 1000 members in these two years.

After a week-long tracheal catarrh, Prof. Dr. jur. Leuthold on May 1, 1891 at the age of 44 during an asthma attack from cardiac paralysis. Georg Heinrich Wahle was his successor as Director of the Mining Authority .

Publications

• Royal Saxon building police law. 5th edition Roßberg, Leipzig 1872-1891.
• Administrative laws for the Kingdom of Saxony. 2 vols. 1875–1876.
• Royal Saxon Fire Insurance Laws. Rossberg, Leipzig 1877.
• Royal Saxon administrative law, including the provisions of imperial law, systematically presented. Roßberg, Leipzig 1878.
• Russian law. Duncker & Humblot Leipzig 1889.
• The basic features of Austrian mining law. Freytag, Leipzig a. Tempsky, Prague 1887.
• The water law in the Kingdom of Saxony. 1891 posthumously.

literature

• Heinrich Wahle: Nekrolog , in: Yearbook for mining and metallurgy in the Kingdom of Saxony to the year 1891 , Craz & Gerlach Freiberg 1891
• Carl Schiffner : From the life of old Freiberg mountain students and the teaching staff of the Bergakademie , third volume, Mauckisch Freiberg 1940
• Hartmut Schleiff, Roland Volkmer, Herbert Kaden : Catalogus Professorum Fribergensis: Professors and teachers at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg 1765 to 2015. Freiberg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86012-492-5 , p. 77

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Edwin Leuthold in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Karl Edwin Leuthold in the Saxon Bibliography
• The basic features of Austrian mining law