Karl Hoppenstedt (lawyer)
Karl Hoppenstedt (born August 15, 1834 in Wöltingerode near Vienenburg , district of Goslar ; † November 12, 1910 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer, judge and the first president of the Lübeck Regional Court .
Life and work
Karl Hoppenstedt, son of the government councilor of the Kingdom of Hanover Georg Ernst Friedrich Hoppenstedt and later statesman, attended the Hanover Lyceum and began studying law in Heidelberg after graduating from high school in 1853. After two semesters he moved to the University of Göttingen; Here he also joined the Hannovera fraternity . He was promoted to Dr. jur. doctorate and passed the state examination in law in Hanover. Then he completed the usual legal training. In 1866 he was appointed district court assessor and worked for a short time in both Hanover and Springe, and in 1867 he was transferred to the Stade Higher Court. In 1877, Karl Hoppenstedt moved to the judicial service of the Free Hanseatic City of Lübeck, where he was first appellate judge, then head of the Lübeck public prosecutor as the first public prosecutor.
According to the constitutional provisions of the German Federal Act , there should be a three-course court structure in each federal state, whereby individual states could jointly establish a higher appeal court, which was the highest court for this spatial area. The four Free Cities (Bremen, Hamburg, Lübeck and Frankfurt am Main [until 1866]) made use of this regulation, whereby the underlying treaty stipulated that Lübeck was the seat of the Higher Appeal Court of the four Free Cities .
The reform of the imperial judiciary , which came into force on January 1, 1879, brought about some major changes. The higher appeal courts were - in simplified form - higher regional courts. In principle, the three-part court structure in the federal states remained, but there was now the Reichsgericht in Leipzig. It was possible that through intergovernmental agreements local court districts were subordinated to the regional court of another federal state. On the one hand, the reform of the Reich judiciary brought about several losses for the Free City of Lübeck, because the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court was established as a joint court for the three Free Cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck , and it was no longer located in Lübeck, but in Hamburg. On the other hand, the newly established Lübeck Regional Court was given a spatial expansion beyond the city limits, because the judicial district not only included the Lübeck Local Court; in addition there were the district courts of Ahrensbök, Eutin and Schwartau from the so-called Principality of Lübeck, which politically belonged to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.
Karl Hoppenstedt was appointed the first president of the Lübeck Regional Court, established on October 1, 1879, and held this office until his death at the age of 74, i.e. he was the highest judge in the city of Lübeck for more than 31 years.
During his term of office the new building of the court house at Große Burgstraße 4 , today's State Office for Social Services, fell . It was built in 1894/1896 as the forerunner of today's court house, which was inaugurated at Burgfeld 7 in 1962, based on a design by Lübeck's building director Adolf Schwiening with a Gothic facade.
Honors
- Hoppenstedt's bust, created by the sculptor Fritz Behn , is in the hallway of the session wing of the court.
- In 1890 the Free Hanseatic City of Lübeck awarded Karl Hoppenstedt the commemorative coin "Bene Merenti" , the highest honor it can bestow.
literature
- Georg Waitz : Hoppenstedt, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 116 f.
- Waldemar Röhrbein: Hoppenstedt, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 620 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Rudolph Wagner: In memory of GEF Hoppenstedt, Königl. Hanover's Secret Cabinet Council and its relationship with the University of Göttingen. A contribution to the history of the Hanoverian country and the German university system , Göttingen 1858.
- Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the Hannovera Göttingen fraternity, 1848–1998 , Düsseldorf 1998, page 21
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Hoppenstedt in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoppenstedt, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, judge and the first President of the Lübeck Regional Court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wöltingerode near Vienenburg , Goslar district |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1910 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |