Karl von Birkmeyer

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Karl Birkmeyer

Friedrich Ruprecht Karl Birkmeyer , since 1907 Knight von Birkmeyer (born June 27, 1847 in Nuremberg , † February 29, 1920 in Munich ) was a German legal scholar . He taught at the University of Rostock and the University of Munich .

Life

Karl Birkmeyer, son of the doctor Johann Matthäus Birkmeyer and his wife Rosette, b. Seger, passed his Abitur at the Nuremberg Aegidien Gymnasium in autumn 1865 . He then studied law at the universities of Munich , Heidelberg and Würzburg . The University of Erlangen earned him a doctorate in law on August 16, 1870 , four years (March 4, 1874) he completed his habilitation in Munich and became a private lecturer .

Shortly after his habilitation, on October 23, 1874, Birkmeyer became an associate professor for criminal law as well as for criminal and civil litigation at the University of Rostock. On November 17, 1877, he was promoted to full professor and thus successor to Karl Dugge . From 1882 he acted in the administration of the university as assessor perpetuus . He was also rector in 1884/85.

Birkmeyer moved to the University of Munich in 1886, and August von Kries became the next professor for criminal law in Rostock . In 1907 Birkmeyer was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown by Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria . With the award the elevation to the personal nobility was connected and he was allowed to call himself "Ritter von Birkmeyer" after the entry in the nobility register . In 1912 he became a Knight of the Second Class of the Order of Merit of St. Michael . He died in Munich in 1920 at the age of 72.

Birkmeyer was married to Marie Pullich since 1880, with whom he had three sons and three daughters. Pullich is the daughter of businessman, banker and councilor Karl Pullich and his wife Josefina Kleespiess.

Act

In 1881 von Birkmeyer and others founded the Mecklenburgische Zeitspflege and jurisprudence . He also worked on the critical quarterly as well as the archive for criminal law and the courtroom . Together with Johannes Nagler he also founded the Critical Contributions to the Reform of the Criminal Law . In 1900 he published his encyclopedia of jurisprudence , which he had compiled with others . He had been involved in the preparatory work for the revision of the Criminal Code since 1903 and was a member of the committee responsible for it.

Works

  • The exceptions in the bonae fidei judicium (habilitation thesis)
  • About assets in the legal sense (1879)
  • On the Concept of Cause and the Causal Relationship in Criminal Law (1885)
    • About the concept of cause and causal relationship in criminal law. Rectorate speech given in celebration of February 28, 1885 by Dr. Karl Birkmeyer. Printed as Rectoratsprogramm for 1884/85 with the addition of comments , Rostock: Universitäts-Buchdruckerei von Adler's Erben, 1885 ( digitized from Google Books, last accessed on July 25, 2016)
    • About the concept of cause and causal relationship in criminal law , in: Dergerichtssaal (GS), 37th year (1885), p. 257 ( digital copy from MPIER, last accessed on July 25, 2016)
  • The Doctrine of Participation in Criminal Law (1890)
  • Floor plan for the lecture on German criminal law (1890)
  • German Criminal Procedure Law (1898)
  • Copyright reform (1900)
  • Thoughts on the upcoming reform of German criminal law (1902)
  • Punishment and protective measure, rectorate program (1906)
  • What does Liszt have left of criminal law? (1907)
  • Participation in the crime (1909)
  • Studies on the Main Principle of the New Direction in Criminal Law (1909)
  • Contributions to the criticism of the preliminary draft for a German Criminal Code I-III (1910)
  • Guilt and Dangerousness in Their Significance for the Determination of the Penalty (1914)

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Johann Matthäus Birkmeyer was the son of the soap boiler and magistrate Gottlieb Birkmeyer and his wife Kunigunda Johanna Paulina, nee. Gebhardt. Birkmeyer's ancestors can be traced back to Neuffen in the 17th century .
  2. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria. 1914, p. 37.
  3. ↑ Notes on using a US proxy, which is often still required for calling, can be found in this Wikisource article
personal data
SURNAME Birkmeyer, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Birkmeyer, Karl; Birkmeyer, Friedrich Ruprecht Karl von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 1920
Place of death Munich