Meyer Levy

Meyer Levy (born January 17, 1833 in Wollstein , † October 18, 1896 in Berlin ) was a German legal scholar , lawyer and notary .

Life

Meyer Levy came from a Jewish family . After studying law , he was initially accepted as an assessor in Berlin in the Prussian judicial service and later appointed as a lawyer in Fraustadt . Here he wrote his first legal writings, but also gave legal lectures. One of his early works was Der Staat und die Juden im Norddeutscher Bund , published in 1867 . A warning to the North German Parliament and The Second Instance in Civil Litigation , published in 1871.

In 1872 Levy returned to Berlin as a lawyer and notary at the City Court. As such, he worked a short time later at the regional court and finally at the higher court . Here he was one of the busiest and most influential lawyers. Together with his lawyer colleague Gustav von Wilmowski, he wrote and commented on numerous legal works, including the Civil Procedure Code and the Courts Constitution Act for the German Empire , which appeared for the first time in two volumes in 1877 and 1878 and was printed in its sixth edition in 1892. In 1880 both published On the Practical Application of the German Code of Civil Procedure and in 1884 the manual edition of the Code of Civil Procedure . At the Deutscher Juristentag he gave a much-noticed lecture on The Civil Code for the German Empire , the second edition of which appeared in 1895.

Levy was the chairman of the Berlin Lawyers 'Association, a member of the Bar Association of his district court and was a member of the permanent deputation of the German Lawyers' Association. For his services he received the title of Royal Prussian Judicial Council . Meyer Levy was the victim of a robbery on the morning of October 18, 1896 in Berlin . He died as a result of the stab wounds.

Publications (selection)

author

• The state and the Jews in the North German Confederation. A reminder to the North German Parliament. Lissa 1867.
• The second instance in civil litigation. To defend the draft of a German Civil Process order being worked on in the Prussian Ministry of Justice. Berlin 1871.
• Implementation and transitional laws for the Reich Civil Procedure Code. Berlin 1880.
• The civil code for the German Empire. Berlin 1895.

Editor and editor

• Code of civil procedure and court constitution law for the German Reich together with the introductory laws. With comment in notes. with Gustav von Wilmowski, 2 volumes, Berlin 1878.
• Hand edition of the Civil Procedure Code and the Courts Constitution Act for the German Reich on the basis of your commentary. with Gustav von Wilmowski, Berlin 1884.

literature

• Levy, Meyer. in: Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog. Volume 1, pages 218–219, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1897. ( digitized )
• Max Cohen :  Levy, Meyer. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.

Web links

• Works by and about Meyer Levy  in the German Digital Library
• Entry on Meyer Levy in Kalliope
• Entry about Levy, Meyer in the index of the German biography