Ludwig Frey

Peter Albert Ludwig Georg Frey (born June 8, 1810 in Neustadt an der Haardt ; † April 12, 1871 ibid) was a German legal scholar and publicist.

Life

Frey, son of a landowner, first received private lessons from a pastor in Böchingen and then attended grammar school in Zweibrücken before enrolling as a law student at Heidelberg University on May 9, 1829 . There he became a member of the Corps Rhenania and the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft , was their senior in the summer semester of 1832 and was made an honorary member when he left the university. During this time he took part in the Hambach Festival in May 1832 , where he called for the introduction of the republic and direct action under the protection of France. On June 22nd, he himself gave a speech at the folk festival in Wilhelmsbad . In the charges brought against him as a result, he was acquitted for lack of evidence. Frey initially continued his studies in Würzburg and in February 1834 moved to the University of Strasbourg for three months .

After completing his studies, he took up a position as a private lecturer for civil and criminal law at the newly founded university in Bern . Disappointment about his non-employment and political differences with the Bern government, Frey finally moved to Paris , where he collected material for a more extensive work on French civil law. In the meantime he stayed in London for three months and worked on an English encyclopedia. Returned to Germany in November 1837, he published his three-volume “Textbook of French Civil Law” in Mannheim in 1840. Until 1848 he worked as a private lecturer in Heidelberg. However, his applications for a professorship are unsuccessful. In the revolution of 1848/49 Frey played a role again, especially in the recall of the government director August Lufft . His application for admission to the Baden judicial service (1849) and again for a professorship in Bern (1855) failed. He therefore turned to journalism and founded the "Palatinate Courier" in Ludwigshafen am Rhein in 1859 , which he edited until 1865. He spent the last years of his life in his hometown Neustadt.

literature

• Edgar Süss: The Palatinate in the "Black Book". A personal historical contribution to the history of the Hambach Festival, early Palatinate and German liberalism . Heidelberg 1956, p. 58.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 72-73.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herbert Derwein: Heidelberg in the pre- March period and in the revolution of 1848/49. A piece of Baden civil history (= New Heidelberg Yearbooks, NF 1955/56). Heidelberg 1958, p. 24.