Ludwig Spiegel

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Ludwig Spiegel (born March 31, 1864 in Reichenau an der Knieschna , Austrian Empire ; died August 14, 1926 in Marienbad , Czechoslovakia ) was an Austrian lawyer and professor at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague .

Life

Spiegel was the son of the lawyer and notary Jonas Spiegel. He came to Prague with his parents in 1868. In 1882 he graduated from the German state high school in Prague's New Town and studied law at the city's German University. In 1887 he received his doctorate and was employed by the Bohemian Financial Procuratorate until 1905 . In 1893 he defended his habilitation on the Austrian emergency ordinance law.

Spiegel taught at the German University in Prague from 1905 and was appointed full professor of constitutional and administrative law in 1911. In 1914/15 he was dean of the law faculty and in 1926/27 rector of the university.

His brother Emil Spiegel (1869–1923) also became a lawyer and tax officer. His only daughter was Käthe Spiegel (1898–1941).

Spiegel was a member of the German Democratic Freedom Party (DDFP) in the first Czechoslovak Republic .

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. Michael Stolleis: History of Public Law in Germany: Weimar Republic and ... , p. 297. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).