Karl von Gerber

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Karl von Gerber, Saxon State Minister

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Gerber , from 1859 by Gerber (born April 11, 1823 in Ebeleben ; †  December 23, 1891 in Dresden ), was an important lawyer , university professor and royal Saxon state minister and minister of culture .

family

He came from a Thuringian family and was the son of Professor Friedrich Gerber (1776-1859), rector of the collegiate school in Ebeleben and then the grammar school in Sondershausen , and his second wife Wilhelmine Köppel (1794-1858).

Gerber married Rosalie von Bloedau (born January 7, 1829 in Sondershausen; † December 31, 1859 in Sondershausen) on September 9, 1848 in Sondershausen, the daughter of Karl , who was only raised to the Schwarzburg-Sondershausen nobility on November 23, 1835 von Bloedau (1804–1886), Princely Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Privy Councilor and personal physician , and Jeannette von Kauffberg (1810–1878). The three children Luise, Klara and Richard came from this marriage.

In his second marriage, he married their younger sister Helene von Bloedau on May 16, 1861 (born September 4, 1838 in Sondershausen; † February 12, 1909 in Sondershausen). With her he had two children, Marie and Karl.

Life and Political Work

During his studies in 1840 he joined the old Leipzig fraternity . After studying law , which he began in Leipzig in 1840 and continued in Heidelberg in 1841 , Gerber completed his habilitation in 1844 at the University of Jena and in 1847 became a professor at the University of Erlangen . In 1851 he moved to the University of Tübingen . As Vice Chancellor and since 1856 Chancellor of the University of Tübingen, he held a mandate in the Württemberg state parliament from 1851 to 1862 by virtue of his office .

In 1862 Gerber followed a call to Jena as a professor , but went to the University of Leipzig in 1863 . In 1867 he was elected a member of the North German constitutional Reichstag .

Gerber played a key role in the synodal redesign of the Saxon regional church . After Johann Paul von Falkenstein's resignation in 1871, he was entrusted with the office of Minister of Education. He implemented the reform of the regional church and passed a new elementary school law. For the next 20 years he devoted himself entirely to administrative work in the church and education system and hardly published any more in the field of law. Also to be mentioned are the state curriculum of 1878, the grammar school law of 1876 and the expansion of the teachers' seminars . Like Falkenstein, he promoted the University of Leipzig (namely through large buildings, e.g. the university library). After Alfred von Fabrice died, Gerber also took over overall management of Saxon politics in the spring of 1891, but died in the same year.

The Technical University of Dresden named one of its buildings after Karl von Gerber in 1991. This houses the law faculty, the chairs of the Institute for Political Science and the law branch library.

The jurist

Gerber was considered one of the great lawyers of his time in the field of private law . He is repeatedly placed at the side of Rudolf von Jhering . Gerber was also important for constitutional law and represented an anti-liberal, conservative and monarchist direction, although his constitutional system offered quite democratic points of contact. His views on constitutional law often live on in Germany, because Gerber had an epoch-making effect with his positivistic descriptions on the one hand and an approach based on abstract principles on the other.

Honors

  • With the award of the Knight's Cross to the Order of the Württemberg Crown , Gerber was elevated to the Württemberg personal nobility on September 27, 1859 .
  • On July 1, 1872, he was elected honorary member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .
  • As the royal Saxon minister of culture, he was raised to the Saxon hereditary nobility on June 18, 1878 in Dresden .

Works

literature

  • Jördis citizens: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerber as Saxon Minister of Culture. A legal and constitutional historical study of his legal and political work in the area of ​​tension between state and church in the late 19th century (= Dresden writings on public law, Volume 4), Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main etc., 2007, ISBN 978- 3-631-55784-6
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians, Part 7: Supplement A – K, Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 . Pp. 368-370.
  • Mario G. Losano: The correspondence between Jhering and Gerber . Part 1 (= Treatises on Basic Legal Research; Volume 55/1), Ebelsbach 1984.
  • Mario G. Losano: Studies on Jhering and Gerber . Part 2 (= Treatises on Basic Legal Research; Volume 55/2), Ebelsbach 1984.
  • Susanne Schmidt-Radefeld: Carl Friedrich von Gerber (1823-1891) and the science of German private law (= writings on legal history, volume 105), Berlin 2003 (based largely on Losano, but has the latest literature).
  • Hans Beschorner :  Gerber, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 291-297.
  • Wilhelm Haan : Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerber . In: Saxon Writer's Lexicon . Robert Schaefer's Verlag, Leipzig 1875, p. XIII.
  • Heinrich Maack:  Gerber, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , pp. 251-253 ( digitized version ).
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses . Part B. Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1933, p. 177.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 260 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gerber, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerber, Carl von; Gerber, Carl; Gerber, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (full name until 1859); Gerber, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von (full name from 1859)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION royal Saxon politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Life
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1891
Place of death Dresden