Ludwig von Cuny

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Ludwig von Cuny

Ludwig von Cuny (born June 14, 1833 in Düsseldorf , † July 20, 1898 in Berlin ) was a German legal scholar and national liberal politician.

Life

Cuny came from a Huguenot family who had migrated as religious refugees from Bar-le-Duc via Berlin to Magdeburg at the end of the 17th century . He was the son of the government official Christoph von Cuny , who was ennobled in 1840, and Friederike Schneider. He attended high schools in Aachen , Koblenz , Berlin and Kleve . After that, he first studied in Bonn then in Berlin jurisprudence . From 1851 Cuny was a member of the Corps Teutonia Bonn, at that time still a fraternity . In 1852 he joined the old Berlin fraternity Teutonia and later the Arminia Berlin fraternity . After the exams he joined the Prussian judicial service. In 1870 he was an assessor at the Bonn Regional Court. As a volunteer nurse, he took part in the Franco-German War . He equipped a medical column from his own resources. In 1870 he was examining magistrate in the new Generalgouvernement of Alsace-Lorraine , based in Haguenau . A few months later he became chairman of the permanent court martial for Alsace. He was also deputy commissioner for the liquidation of the French bank in Strasbourg . Among other things, he pleaded for the restoration of ordinary jurisdiction in place of courts-martial. After the martial law was abolished, Cuny was appointed judge of appeal in Colmar . In 1873 he resigned from the service because of his political activities. In 1875, Cuny was appointed associate professor for law in Berlin. His focus was on French law and constitutional issues. However, the number of hours of the lectureship was so small that he was mainly able to devote himself to politics. From 1889 Cuny was full professor .

politics

The reason for giving up the judicial service was his election to the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency of Lennep-Solingen-Remscheid. In 1874 he was elected to the Reichstag for the constituency of Dessau-Zerbst. With brief interruptions in the Reichstag, he remained a member of both houses until his death. He represented the National Liberal Party in both parliaments . In the party Cuny sat from 1881 to 1898 in the executive committee or central committee. He was one of the National Liberals' most important legal experts.

Prussian House of Representatives

From 1873 to 1898 Cuny was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , where he represented the constituency of Düsseldorf 1 (Lennep - Solingen - Remscheid). During the Kulturkampf , Cuny represented the principle of the primacy of the state over the church. In various areas, he asked for the government's drafts to be tightened. In addition, Cuny campaigned in the House of Representatives for the French law applicable in the Rhine Province and tried to prevent the transfer of old Prussian institutions.

Imperial politics

At the national level, Cuny excelled in the area of ​​legislation on civil law . Originally a free trader, Cuny found it difficult when Otto von Bismarck turned to protective tariffs . After losing his seat in the Reichstag in 1881, he was a member of the Kreuznach-Simmern constituency from 1884. Although there were different opinions between Cuny and his constituents, Cuny actively campaigned for the interests of his constituency, for example through efforts to establish a wine law. In 1884 Cuny became a member of the Prussian Central Administration for National Debt . The experience he gained there led to the advocacy of the creation of a state and imperial debt register.

During the debate about the continuation of the Socialist Law , Cuny essentially determined the course of his party. His opposition to the deportation powers of governments contributed to the parliamentary failure of the law. On the other hand, Cuny has always resisted the end of the Jesuit law.

In 1890 Cuny became a member of the Reichstag's stock market inquiry commission . The aim was to combat excesses in the stock market business. Cuny advocated greater state control over stock exchange transactions. With this in mind, he has launched various legislative initiatives. Between 1892 and 1896 Cuny took part in the deliberations on the preparation of the civil code . In these discussions too, he advocated the principles of French law. He met the Catholic side of the marriage question. In the Reichstag, Cuny was in charge of the commission responsible for advising the BGB and the associated ancillary laws.

Supports

Cuny took care of emigration policy and was a supporter of colonial policy. He supported the colonial association with financial means. He also sponsored the University of Bonn. To mark its fiftieth anniversary, Cuny made 30,000 marks available to support private lecturers in need. Among other things, Cuny actively supported the historiographical outsider Karl Lamprecht not only through such grants, but also through recommendations. In his will he gave the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin a legacy of 300,000 marks (1871) and bequeathed part of his library to it.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 17/103
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 176.
  3. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 100 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 718-722.
  4. ^ Luise Schorn-Schütte : Karl Lamprecht. Cultural historiography between science and politics. Göttingen 1984, p. 52
personal data
SURNAME Cuny, Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, university professor and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1898
Place of death Berlin