Karl von Mandry

Karl Franz Paul Mandry , later von Mandry , (born March 10, 1866 in Tübingen ; † November 25, 1926 in Heilbronn ) was a German judge and Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Württemberg from 1917 to 1918 .

ancestry

Karl Mandry came from a Catholic family from the New Württemberg regions of Upper Swabia , which had produced prominent lawyers over several generations. He was the second son of the Tübingen law professor Gustav von Mandry .

Life

Karl Mandry experienced his childhood and school days in Tübingen, where he passed the school leaving examination in 1884 . This was followed by a degree in law, which he completed partly at the University of Tübingen and partly at the University of Berlin . The opportunity to study in Berlin resulted from his father's collaboration with the commissions for drafting the civil code , during which the family lived in the capital from 1884 to 1889, from 1891 to 1895 and from 1896 to 1899. From 1885 to 1886, Karl Mandry served as a one-year volunteer in the Tübingen battalion of the 7th Württemberg Infantry Regiment . After that he was a reserve officer in the same regiment. In Tübingen, Mandry joined the Igel student association . He passed the two judicial service exams in 1889 and 1892 with great success. In 1892 he entered the Wuerttemberg judicial service and was used in various places for inconsistent employment before he was appointed magistrate in Ulm in 1896 . In 1900 he came to Heilbronn as a district judge. In 1905 he moved to Stuttgart in the same position , and in 1907 to Ellwangen . In 1913 he returned to Stuttgart as an appellate judge. With the outbreak of the First World War , he served in the Deputy General Command in Stuttgart. In 1915 he was appointed to the State Ministry and in December 1916 promoted to the real Council of State. With the resignation of Justice Minister Friedrich von Schmidlin , King Wilhelm II appointed Mandry as his successor on December 3, 1917. Thus, after the departure of the Interior Minister Johann von Pischek , a Catholic again entered the Weizsäcker government . In the short time that he was a minister in the Württemberg State Ministry, Mandry could hardly set his own accents. Since the further training of lawyers and the training of the next generation of lawyers and trainee lawyers was particularly important to him, he primarily took care of this, as far as this was still possible in the late phase of the war. On May 16, 1918, he gave a budget speech in the Württemberg state parliament , in which he essentially justified the plans of his predecessor for some new positions, which were then approved by the estates. In the course of the events of the November Revolution , which led to the formation of the People's State of Württemberg , Mandry resigned from his ministerial office on November 6, 1918 and took over the business as chief magistrate in Schorndorf in the following March 1919 . After the death of the President of the Higher Regional Court, the Council of State Karl von Cronmüller , he became his successor at the head of the highest Württemberg court, the Higher Regional Court in Stuttgart , and took over the chairmanship of the first civil senate. In this position he was also chairman of the Württemberg State Court.

Karl von Mandry married Elisabeth Mezler in Ravensburg in 1895. She was the daughter of a judge. The marriage produced three sons. Mandry died as a result of an operation in the hospital in Heilbronn while he was being treated by his brother Gustav Mandry after a brief illness that had unexpectedly ended his work as the President of the Württemberg Higher Regional Court.

Honors

• Knight of the Order of the Württemberg Crown . This was associated with the personal nobility.
• Dr. jur. hc

literature

• Swabian Kronik . No. 552 of November 25, 1926, p. 5 and Sunday supplement to the Swabian Merkur No. 612 of December 31, 1926.
• Frank Raberg : Karl Mandry (1866 to 1926). Minister a. D. and judge. In: Moments. Contributions to regional studies of Baden-Württemberg. Issue 6/2001, State Gazette for Baden-Württemberg GmbH, Stuttgart 2001, p. 13 (with illustration)