Maximilian of Buri

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Maximilian von Buri (born March 7, 1825 in Büdingen (Hesse), † April 20, 1902 in Wiesbaden ) was a German criminal lawyer and judge .

Life

The Hessian family was ennobled in 1753. His grandfather Ludwig von Buri (1746-1806) was a childhood friend of Goethe. His father, Christian von Buri (1796-1850), was a high school student in the Wars of Liberation , as a student co-founder of the German reading society and co-organizer of the Wartburg Festival and was the defender of Friedrich Ludwig Weidig .

Maximilian von Buri studied in Giessen and Heidelberg. In 1844 he became a member of the Corps Hassia Gießen . In 1846 he was sworn in to the Hessian sovereign and was initially a lawyer in Gießen. In 1853 he became a regional judge. In 1865 he became a public prosecutor, in 1866 he was promoted to senior public prosecutor. From 1875 to 1879 von Buri was a member of the state parliament in Hesse for the National Liberal Party . In 1879 he was appointed to the imperial court. Until his retirement in 1896 he was a member of the 1st Criminal Senate . Buri is still quoted today: he is the founder of the equivalence theory . It was his Senate that made theory a case law in 1880. He had a lasting impact on the dolus theory to differentiate between perpetration and participation. He was an opponent of the "modern criminal law school" of Franz von Liszt's Marburg program .

family

He married Marie von Ernest in Königsberg in 1854 , the daughter of the Privy Councilor Friedrich von Ernest and Friederike von der Marwitz . The couple had two children, including Paul von Buri who became the Real Secret Legation Councilor in the Foreign Office and died the last of the sex.

Fonts (selection)

  • Treatises from criminal law. 1) On the doctrine of the attack on honor with closer consideration of the doctrine of attempt, competition and continued crime. 2) The plot is not a special form of guilt. Ferber, Giessen 1862, digitized version .
  • On the Doctrine of Participation in Crime and Favoring. Ferber, Giessen 1860, digitized .
  • About causality and its responsibility. From M. von Buri, Grand Heart. Chief Public Prosecutor for Darmstadt , Leipzig: JM Gebhardt's Verlag, 1873
  • On the question of causality. In: The courtroom. Vol. 29, 1878, ISSN  0936-7438 , pp. 269-296 .
  • Unity and majority of the crimes (= The courtroom. Supplement. 31, ZDB -ID 507555-5 ). Enke, Stuttgart 1879 (reprint. Keip, Frankfurt am Main 1968).
  • The causality and its criminal relations (= The courtroom. Supplement. 37). Enke, Stuttgart 1885 ( digitized from Google Books, last accessed on July 25, 2016)
  • About the concepts of intent and action. In: The courtroom. Vol. 41, 1889, pp. 408-444 .
  • Guilt and punishment. In: The courtroom. Vol. 47, 1892, pp. 241-254 .
  • Contributions to the theory of criminal law and the penal code. Collected Treatises. Veit, Leipzig 1894.
  • Will, determinism, punishment. In: The courtroom. Vol. 52, 1896, pp. 285-300 .
  • Free will. II. Failure. III. Causality and Participation. In: The courtroom. Vol. 56, 1899, pp. 418-472 .

literature

  • Carl Kirchner:  Buri, Maximilian Georg Wilhelm Carl Theodor Gottfried von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 51 ( digitized version ).
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 94.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 104.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Wentzcke:  Buri, Christian Karl Friedrich Ludwig von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 51 ( digitized version ).
  2. Kösener corps lists 1910, 51 , 355.
  3. ^ Adolf Lobe : Fifty Years of the Imperial Court. On October 1, 1929. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1929, p. 354.
  4. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Who was who in German law . Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  5. RGSt. 1, 373 ff. “Arsenik” (I. Criminal Senate; judgment of April 12, 1880; 570/80).
  6. Causality and its criminal relations. 1885, p. 41.
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