Karl von Unzner

Karl von Unzner (born February 3, 1865 in Donauwörth ; † June 1, 1929 in Munich ) was a Bavarian lawyer and President of the Supreme Court in Munich.

Life

Karl von Unzner studied law in Munich, passed the state examination in 1891 and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . In 1894 he became a local judge at the Munich I District Court and was also on leave as secretary of the commission for the second reading of the draft of a civil code . In 1896 he was promoted to II. Public Prosecutor at the Regional Court of Munich I when he was called to the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice , in 1898 he was appointed to the District Court Counselor with further employment in the Ministry of Justice. In 1899 he was promoted to the first public prosecutor, in 1901 to the government council and in 1903 to the senior government council . In 1908 he received the title and rank of Ministerial Councilor . In 1912 Unzner was appointed Senate President at the Supreme Court and was given permission to work part-time in legislative work in the Ministry of Justice. In 1915 he became a State Councilor and Ministerial Director in the Ministry of Justice. In April 1919 Unzner took up the office of President of the Supreme Regional Court, which he held until his death.

Expert opinion on the royal proclamation by Prince Regent Ludwig

In 1912/13, Unzner gained importance for the course of Bavarian history through an expert report that he prepared on the question of a possible end to the reign in Bavaria. The Hertling government , namely the Interior Minister Maximilian von Soden-Fraunhofen , advocated an end to the reign after the death of Prince Regent Luitpold . The way was controversial: the legitimistically thinking Hertling and Soden-Fraunhofen advocated a unilateral proclamation of the king of the heir to the throne Ludwig . The Minister of Justice Heinrich von Thelemann considered this route to be unconstitutional. Unzner worked out a legal opinion for him, which rejected the path of proclamation and pointed the way to a constitutional amendment. Unzner's report was before the Council of Ministers on December 11, 1912 and became the basis for government action. The end of the reign failed in 1912 because the majority of the central faction in the Chamber of Deputies did not want to go along with the constitutional amendment. But when parts of Unzner's report appeared in the social democratic Munich Post in autumn 1913 , the government went on the offensive again and, with the consent of Prince Regent Ludwig, had Unzner's entire report published in the Bavarian State Newspaper . Now the center group was ready to go along with the constitutional amendment. So Ludwig's accession to the throne as King Ludwig III took place. in November 1913 on the path that Unzner had shown almost a year earlier.

Web link

Joachim Lilla: Unzner, Karl Ritter v. In: Joachim Lilla: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria 1918 to 1945 (Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online).

Remarks

↑ pressure of Unzner-report: Bavarian State newspaper first born of 13 October 1913. (# 239). a detailed analysis can be found in: Verena von Arnswaldt: The end of the reign in Bavaria 1912/13. In: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte 30 (1967), pp. 859–893, here: pp. 865–868 ( digitized version ).

↑ Dieter Albrecht (Ed.): The protocols of the parliamentary group of the Bavarian Center Party 1893-1914. Volume 5: 1912-1914. Munich 1993, p. 158 f. No. 92 with note 1 and p. 195 No. 99 with note 1.

personal data
SURNAME	Unzner, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German judge and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH	February 3, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Donauwörth
DATE OF DEATH	June 1, 1929
Place of death	Munich

[1] ressure of Unzner-report: Bavarian State newspaper first born of 13 October 1913. (# 239). a detailed analysis can be found in: Verena von Arnswaldt: The end of the reign in Bavaria 1912/13. In: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte 30 (1967), pp. 859–893, here: pp. 865–868 ( digitized version ).

[2] Dieter Albrecht (Ed.): The protocols of the parliamentary group of the Bavarian Center Party 1893-1914. Volume 5: 1912-1914. Munich 1993, p. 158 f. No. 92 with note 1 and p. 195 No. 99 with note 1.