Leopold Volkmar

Friedrich Wilhelm Johannes Leopold Volkmar (born July 31, 1817 in Berlin ; † September 10, 1864 there ) was a German lawyer and historian who made a name for himself in particular as a defender of the bourgeois revolutionaries of the March Revolution of 1848.

Life

Volkmar, a son of the broker Moritz Daniel Volkmar , attended the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster and studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. After a change of religion he became an auscultator in 1837, trainee lawyer in 1839 and assessor in 1842. For the next two years he worked at the Berlin Court of Appeal, moved to the Trier Regional Court in 1843 and was appointed attorney-at-law at the Rhenish Court of Auditors in Berlin in 1845 .

In addition, he often appeared as a defender in political trials, especially in connection with the 1848 revolution. In 1847 he defended the writer and journalist Ehrenreich Eichholz and in 1850 he managed to get Ludwig Eichler sentenced to just nine months in prison.

In 1859 he was one of the founders of the Legal Society in Berlin, and later also on the permanent deputation of the German Lawyers' Association .

His colleague Hermann Makower praised him as a "consistent advocate of liberal principles in all areas of state life".

He was married to Ida Simonson (1825–1879). Her daughter Anna Volkmar (1849–1924) married the lawyer Ferdinand Perels (1836–1903).

Works (selection)

• The Upper Secret Tribunal , 1843, endangers the independence of the lower authorities
• The religious process of the preacher Schulz zu Gielsdorf, called Zopfschulz , an eighteenth-century friend of light; Actually represented , Leipzig 1846 (digitized version )
• A legal opinion on the matter of Leopold Hentschel, businessman in Crossen, defendants, appeals, now auditors, against Julius Profé, businessman in Frankfurt ad O., plaintiffs, appellants, now appeals , 1847
• Defense of the writer Ehrenreich Eichholz , who was accused of causing displeasure against the Prussian government because of his book Fate of a Proletarian , Altenburg 1847 (digitized version)
• The jurisprudence of the Rheinischer Cassationshof in Berlin. 1819–1846 , Berlin 1848 (digitized version)
• The prohibitions against trading in securities and stocks. Ein Commentar , Berlin 1857 (digitized version)
• (together with Siegmund Loewy), The German Exchange Order , Berlin 1862 (digitized version)

literature

• Hermann Makower, Nekrolog , in: Deutsche Rechts-Zeitung , Vol. 6, No. 42 of October 19, 1864, p. 167f. (Digitized version)
• Andreas Fijal, The History of the Legal Society in Berlin from 1859 to 1933 , Berlin 1990, p. 47f. (Digitized version)