Karl von Stengel (lawyer)

Karl von Stengel (lawyer)

Karl Joseph Leopold Freiherr von Stengel (born June 26, 1840 in Peulendorf near Bamberg , † April 6, 1930 in Freising ) was a German judge and legal scholar . He was the first Prussian professor to hold a sole chair for administrative law.

Life

Freiherr von Stengel was born in Peulendorf in 1840 as the son of a forester and his wife. He studied law and political science at the University of Munich from 1859 to 1863 and passed the assessor examination. In 1870 he started in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice . He then became a district judge in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine (Mühlhausen 1871 and Strasbourg 1879).

In 1881 he was awarded a doctorate due to his extensive publications on Prussian administrative and land law and, after the introduction of the subject (1881), he was appointed the first Prussian full professor of administrative law at the University of Breslau . He taught administrative, constitutional and canon law as well as legal philosophy; he also dealt with colonial law. In 1890 he was appointed to succeed Joseph von Held at the University of Würzburg , where he taught general, German and Bavarian constitutional law, legal philosophy and international law; he was succeeded by Robert Piloty . From 1895 he was professor of constitutional and canon law at the State University in Munich, where he taught until his death in 1930.

In 1899 he was the German representative at the Hague Peace Conference . He was a member of the German Colonial Society , the German Fleet Association and the International Colonial Institute . In 1906 he was appointed by Reich Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow as an expert in the commission of inquiry into the activities of the mining companies in South West Africa.

His dictionary of German administrative law, published in 1890/97 , became a standard work .

He was married and the father of two sons. One son died as an officer, most likely during the Maji Maji uprising in German East Africa; another entered the service of the Foreign Office .

Fonts (selection)

Below is a selection of writings (without lectures):

• The jurisdiction of the administrative authorities and administrative courts according to the Prussian Jurisdiction Act of August 1, 1883 (zgest., 1884)
• Textbook of German Administrative Law (1886)
• The Constitutional and International Legal Position of the German "Colonies" and their Future Constitution (1886)
• Dictionary of German Administrative Law (5 vol. 1890/97; 2nd edition 1911/14, 3 vol .: Dictionary of German constitutional and administrative law, edited with Max Fleischmann )
• The constitutional law of the Kingdom of Prussia (1894)
• German colonial policy (1899; 2nd edition 1900)
• Legal Cyclopedia for Use by Foresters (1900)
• The Legal Relationship of the German Protected Areas (1901)
• The Congo State (1903)
• Collection of sources on administrative law of the German Empire (zsgest., 1907)
• World State and Peace Problem (1909)
• On the question of the economic and customs unification of Germany and Austria-Hungary (1915)

literature

• Marc Grohmann: Exotic Constitution. The competences of the Reichstag for the German colonies in legislation and constitutional law of the German Empire (1884–1914) (= contributions to the legal history of the 20th century . Vol. 30). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147532-1 , pp. 96-105.
• Walther Killy et al. (Ed.): Dictionary of German Biography . Vol 9: Schmidt - Theyer . KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-23299-3 , p. 521.
• Martin Otto:  Stengel, Karl von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 244 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Andreas Röpke: The Würzburg Faculty of Law from 1815 to 1914. Legal studies and teaching in Würzburg between the Restoration and the First World War (= Würzburg juristic writings . Vol. 27). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-935556-77-2 , pp. 220-221.
• Michael Stolleis : History of Public Law in Germany . Volume 2: Constitutional Law and Administrative Science, 1800–1914 . Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-33061-4 , pp. 402-403.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl von Stengel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Marc Grohmann: Exotic constitution. The competences of the Reichstag for the German colonies in legislation and constitutional science of the German Empire (1884–1914) (= contributions to the legal history of the 20th century . Vol. 30). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147532-1 , p. 96.
2. ↑ Walther Killy et al. (Ed.): Dictionary of German Biography . Vol 9: Schmidt - Theyer . KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-23299-3 , p. 521.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Andreas Röpke: The Würzburg Faculty of Law from 1815 to 1914. Legal studies and legal teaching in Würzburg between the Restoration and the First World War (= Würzburg juristic writings . Vol. 27). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-935556-77-2 , p. 220.
4. ^ Michael Stolleis : History of Public Law in Germany . Volume 2: Constitutional Law and Administrative Science, 1800–1914 . Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-33061-4 , p. 402.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Andreas Röpke: The Würzburg Faculty of Law from 1815 to 1914. Legal studies and teaching in Würzburg between the Restoration and the First World War (= Würzburg juristic writings . Vol. 27). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-935556-77-2 , p. 221.
6. ↑ Andreas Röpke: The Würzburger Juristenfakultät from 1815 to 1914. Legal studies and teaching in Würzburg between the Restoration and the First World War (= Würzburg juristic writings . Vol. 27). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-935556-77-2 , p. 281.
7. ↑ Marc Grohmann: Exotic Constitution. The competences of the Reichstag for the German colonies in legislation and constitutional science of the German Empire (1884–1914) (= contributions to the legal history of the 20th century . Vol. 30). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147532-1 , p. 97.