Conrad of Cucumus

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Konrad von Cucumus (also often Conrad von Cucumus ; born as Konrad Cucumus ; born January 20, 1792 in Mainz , † February 23, 1861 in Munich ) was a German judge and legal scholar . He was a professor of Roman law, constitutional law and criminal law at the University of Würzburg , a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and an appellate judge in Munich.

Life

His father worked for the Imperial Chancellor and Elector, Archbishop of Mainz. After attending grammar school in Aschaffenburg , he began studying law at the University of Würzburg until he took part in the war of liberation against Napoleon in 1813/14 . He was under the influence of the Enlightenment and natural law . In 1818 he received his doctorate in law.

In 1819 he became a private lecturer and in 1821 an associate professor. In 1825 he followed Gallus Aloys Kleinschrod to the chair for Roman law and criminal law . At the same time he took over the constitutional law from Wilhelm Joseph Behr . His criminal law lectures were based on Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach . In addition, he was a member of the Senate and Administrative Committee in the 1820s and rector of the university in 1830/31 . In the course of the Karlsbad resolutions , he was relieved of his professorship together with other lecturers in 1832 because of his free-thinking attitude; his successors were Friedrich von Ringelmann (Roman law / criminal law) and Anton Arnold von Linck (public law).

This was followed by a transfer as assessor to the appellate court in Neuburg an der Donau , in 1839 he became a real appellate judge. From 1842 to 1863 he was a councilor at the Higher Appeal Court of the Kingdom of Bavaria in Munich. He was u. a. Member of the Senate for Competence Conflicts. Cucumus was considered a loyal judge to the state.

In 1931/32 he was Secretary of the District Administrator for the Lower Main District. In April 1848 he was the Bavarian shop steward at the Committee of Seventeen of the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main to revise the Federal Constitution and in 1848/49 for the 8th constituency of Lower Franconia in Schweinfurt, a non-attached member of the Frankfurt National Assembly . There he was a member of the committee for international law and questions. He was against the election of Friedrich Wilhelm IV as Emperor of the Germans.

His son Franz Cucumus (1824–1881) was an imperial judge. Another son, Karl (Carl) Cucumus, * 1833 in Neuburg ad Donau, Abitur in 1852 at the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium , embarked on a military career.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • De jure accrescendi, cui competat post venditam hereditatem (1818)
  • On the duel and its position in the penal system, treatise from the point of view of the law of reason, as a contribution to legislation (1821)
  • On the Division of Crimes, Offenses, and Infringements in the Criminal Codes in Relation to Constitutional Principles (1823)
  • On the state and the laws of antiquity, academic treatise to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Max Joseph (1824)
  • Textbook on the constitutional law of the constitutional monarchy of Bavaria (1825)

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 199.
  2. ↑ a b 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. 281.
  3. ↑ 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. 201.
  4. ↑ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1851/52
  5. ^ Ordinance sheet of the Royal Bavarian War Ministry 1859, p. 85: Cucumus, Carl, ULt. (Sub-lieutenant)
personal data
SURNAME Cucumus, Konrad von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cucumus, Conrad von; Cucumus, Konrad (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge and jurist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1861
Place of death Munich