Karl von Jacubezky

Karl August von Jacubezky (born August 6, 1845 in Munich ; † December 3, 1909 ) was a German lawyer , senior councilor, Senate President at the Bavarian Supreme Court and, alongside Gottlieb Planck, was the leading head of the second commission for drafting the civil code .

Life

Karl Jacubezky was born in Munich on August 6, 1845. From the summer semester of 1864 to the summer semester of 1867 he studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There he attended lectures by the leading law professors of his time (including Bernhard Windscheid , Paul Rudolf von Roth , Joseph von Pözl and Konrad Maurer ). In the state bankruptcy on March 27 and November 2, 1870 Jacubezky achieved a grade of one in all subjects. After a brief activity as a lawyer and unskilled worker in the State Ministry of Justice, he became an assessor at the Munich City Court on the left of the Isar from September 1, 1874. On February 1, 1877, he was summoned to the State Ministry of Justice to prepare the implementing laws for the Imperial Civil Procedure and Bankruptcy Code; on March 20, 1889, he obtained the rank and title of senior government councilor. In this rank he takes part in the deliberations on the second draft of a civil code in Berlin. As early as July 1, 1892, Jacubezky was appointed Ministerialrat “out of status” in the Ministry of Justice. In the commission he prevailed with numerous requests to amend the first draft and thus gained great influence on the later version of the civil code . In August 1896 Jacubezky returned from Berlin to the Munich Ministry of Justice and on October 1, 1897, he became President of the Senate at the Supreme Court, but remained in the Ministry for a while to work on the implementation legislation of the Civil Code . Jacubezky received numerous awards for his work. The personal nobility was associated with the Knight's Cross of the Royal Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown on December 27, 1895. The Würzburg Faculty of State Science awarded him a doctorate. iur. utr. Shortly before his death, hc and Jacubezky became honorary members of the Berlin Legal Society on the occasion of their 50th anniversary because of his “services to law”. Jacubezky died on December 3, 1909 at the age of 64.

estate

His estate is in the City Archives of Munich.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ His work is of great importance: Karl Jakubezky, Comments on the Drafts of a Civil Code for the German Empire, Munich 1892.
2. ↑ Thomas Finkenauer , Karl Jacubezky and the BGB in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 131 (2014), pp. 325–362.