Ludolf Hugo

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Ludolf Hugo

Ludolf Hugo (* May 1632 in Rehburg near Nienburg / Weser ; † August 24, 1704 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Ludolf Hugo was born as the son of Statius Hugo (* 1595 in Hagenburg ; † 1678 in Stolzenau ), clerk in Stolzenau and his wife Anna (* 1607; † 1679), a daughter of pastor Heinrich Voigt (Praetorius) from Rehburg.

His brother was:

  • Conrad Hugo (* 1636; † 1710), bailiff in Stolzenau from 1675.

His nephews were:

His great-nephew was

Ludolf Hugo began studying law at the University of Helmstedt in 1649 and, under the influence of Hermann Conring, specialized in the field of constitutional law. After further studies at the University of Leiden and a long educational trip, he obtained his doctorate in 1661.

For further training he stayed for a long time at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer and found that the work of the court would be significantly hindered, but could be relieved. To this end, he published the work De abusu appellationum tollendo et camera imperiali immenso earum cumulo levanda in 1662 , in which he recommended that the beneficium novorum (the right to present new facts in the higher instance) be abolished or restricted; this would be an effective means of relieving the imperial court.

After his training at the Imperial Court of Justice, Duke Johann Friedrich appointed him in 1665 as court advisor to Hanover when he took office from the Mecklenburg service, in which Ludolf Hugo had since entered. As a connoisseur of imperial law, he represented his country 1667–1674 as a comitial envoy at the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg . In 1677, as the successor to Otto Johann Witte († 1677), he took over the position of Vice Chancellor , which was linked to the management of the judicial office and was pushed back entirely to legal matters, with a seat and vote in the Privy Council and thus with the rank of minister. In this position he took part in all important questions of Guelf domestic and foreign policy and wrote, for example, for the regimental order of 1680, according to which the military administration was converted into a regular war chancellery, for the dispute with the estates, the introduction of the birthright , the ninth Elected electoral dignity and the acquisition of the Duchy of Lauenburg, expert opinions and memoranda, some of which also appeared in print.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , whose friends and correspondent Ludolf Hugo was one of his friends and correspondents , applied in vain for his position as Vice Chancellor, which after his death was reduced to the function of the office management and was therefore without a seat and a vote on the Privy Council . As a representative of the civil legal scholarship, Ludolf Hugo was the last non-aristocratic minister in Kurhannover , after him all positions in the Privy Council were occupied only by the old aristocracy (with the exception of the new aristocratic Johann Philipp von Hattorf (1682–1737)).

Ludolf Hugo was unmarried throughout his life.

In 1730 his library was handed over to the predecessor institution of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library .

Act

On August 20, 1661, he disputed with the text De statu regionum Germaniae , which the Giessen professor and chancellor Johann Nikolaus Hert published in 1689; In 1736 it was reissued. In the writing he examined the form of government of the German Reich, which it recognizes as a state composed of states. Ludolf Hugo was not the first to investigate the development of the term state , but the writing was one of the earliest, which was characterized by sharpness and systematics.

After the Saxon-Lauenburg house of the Ascanians had died out in the male line in 1689, the extensive report of the rights of the House of Braunschweig-Lüneburg to the Lauenburg lands, which had already been printed, except for the title , was not published . This was secreted for unknown reasons (kept under lock and key) and still treated as a state secret at the end of the 18th century.

In the big questions of constitutional law that arose during the reign of Elector Ernst August , he wrote the deductions for their legal representation, such as the contribution to the regulation of the succession in the House of Duke August before obtaining the electoral dignity according to the Golden Bull .

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SURNAME Hugo, Ludolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hugonus, Ludolphus; Hugo, Ludolph; Hugo, Ludolphus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 1632
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehburg
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1704
Place of death Hanover