Karl von Zahn

Karl Gustav von Zahn (born December 12, 1877 in Leipzig , † August 20, 1944 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) was a German lawyer and ministerial official .

Life

Tomb of the couple from Zahn

Von Zahn was born in Leipzig in 1877 as the son of Wilhelm von Zahn , who later became vice principal of the Thomas School . His mother, the daughter of a German lithographer, came from Saint Petersburg . The historian Walter Goetz and the New Testament scholar Theodor von Zahn were among his extensive relatives . Von Zahn attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Leipzig , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . He was born in Leipzig in 1902 with his dissertation Which state structures would the constitution of the German Empire of March 28, 1849 and the so-called Erfurt Union constitution have brought into existence? to the Dr. jur. PhD. He then became a private lecturer in criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Leipzig. From 1920 to 1933 he was Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of the Interior in Berlin and later senior archivist at the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam. Since 1919 he was married to the women's rights activist Agnes von Zahn-Harnack , the daughter of the well-known theologian Adolf von Harnack .

Karl von Zahn was buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery (field 008-380). Here he rests next to his wife.

Fonts

• Which state structures would the constitution of the German Empire of March 28, 1849 and the so-called Erfurt Union constitution have brought into existence? Dissertation, University of Leipzig, 1902.
• Karl Ferdinand Hommel as a criminal law philosopher and teacher of criminal law. A contribution to the history of criminal investigation in Germany . Ernst Wiegandt, Leipzig 1911.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl von Zahn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of Karl von Zahn's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1912 to summer semester 1914)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gisa Bauer : Cultural Protestantism and early bourgeois women's movement in Germany. Agnes von Zahn-Harnack (1884–1950) . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-374-02385-1 , p. 157.