Nikolaus Thaddäus von Gönner

Nikolaus Thaddäus von Gönner

Nikolaus Thaddäus Ritter von Gönner (born December 18, 1764 in Bamberg , † April 18, 1827 in Munich ) was a German legal scholar and statesman.

origin

His parents were Johann Michael Gönner (1732–1795) and his wife Maria Anna Fleischmann (1733–1799). His father was bailiff of Baron von Pölnitz zu Hundshaupten , cathedral chapter castner of Baron von Würtzburg and auditor at the prince-bishop's vicariate of Würzburg.

Life

Gönner first attended a preparatory school and then from the school year 1775/76 the grammar school. On December 17, 1777 he moved to the University of Bamberg , where he initially registered for the humanistic branch and from 1781 studied law. In September 1781 he received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Bamberg and, after years of study in Göttingen and practical years in Wetzlar , obtained the degree of Dr. jur. As early as 1789 he became a full professor of law in Bamberg, in 1797 court chamber consultant, in 1799 professor of constitutional law at the University of Ingolstadt , in whose relocation to Landshut (1800) he played a key role, and whose procurator he was appointed in 1803 and 1804.

Appointed to the legislative commission in Munich in 1811, in 1812 he became director of the court of appeal of the Isarkkreis , in 1813 ennobled as a knight of the Bavarian Crown's Order of Civil Merit , in 1815 as a secret judicial trainee, in 1817 a privy councilor and extraordinary, in 1820 an ordinary councilor, in 1826 after the transfer of the University of Landshut, an honorary professor of legal philosophy . He died on April 18, 1827 in Munich.

Gönner was one of the most influential representatives of the philosophical and legal school. His legislative work includes his draft of a code of law on judicial proceedings in civil cases (Erlangen 1815–1817, 3 vols.), The Mortgage Act with Commentary (Munich 1823–1824, 2 vols.) And the draft of the penal code (Munich 1822) , of his other numerous writings the manual of the German common process (Erlangen 1800–1803, 4 vol .; 2nd ed., 1804) and his German state law (Erlangen 1804) best known.

family

Gönner was married twice. In 1791 he married Eva Barbara Katharina van Winnenthael (1771–1809) in Bamberg , a daughter of the Bamberg citizen Livinius van Winnenthael (Wynendahl) and Eva Hoffmann . After the death of his first wife, he married Anna Schrödl in Munich in 1815 , a daughter of the Bavarian Finance Council, Franz Schrödl . He had two sons and three daughters (one of whom died early) from his first marriage, including the Bavarian General Secretary and Head of the Second Section in the War Ministry and archivist of the Military Max Joseph Order Michael von Gönner (1794–1876).

Works (selection)

• Legal treatises .
  • First part. Bamberg 1795 ( digitized version ).
  • Second part. Bamberg 1799 ( digitized version ).
• Revision of the concept and the divisions of the dolus . Landshut 1810 ( digitized ).
• On legislation and jurisprudence in our time . Erlangen 1815 ( digitized version ).
• Draft Code on Judicial Procedure in Civil Matters .
  • First volume containing the code of law . Erlangen 1815 ( digitized version ).
  • Second volume, motifs . Second department, Erlangen 1816 ( digitized version ).
• Motives for the drafting of the general mortgage order for the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1919 ( digitized ).
• Lectures on legislative subjects to the second chamber of the first assembly of estates in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1820 ( digitized ).
• Illumination of the publication published in Munich: the Stock Jobbery, and the trade in government securities according to the current state, politically and legally . Vienna 1821, published anonymously ( digitized version ).
• Some motives for the Bavarian draft of the penal code , with a brief examination of the detailed examination which Mr. Budget councilor and deputy of the K. Danish Canzleicollegii Dr. Oerstedt in Copenhagen in 1823 . Munich 1825 ( digitized ).
  • Second volume, motifs . Second division, Erlangen 1826 ( digitized version ).
• From government debts, their repayment institutions and from the trade in government securities.
  • First department, Munich 1926 ( digitized version ).
• On the philosophy of positive private law . Munich 1827 ( digitized version ).
• Commentar on the Mortgage Law for the Kingdom of Bavaria . 2nd Edition.
  • First volume, Munich 1868 ( digitized version ).
  • Second volume, Munich 1868 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Heinrich Joachim Jaeck : N. Th. Gönner's biography . 3. Edition. Johann Jakob Palm, Erlangen 1814 (1st edition 1813; digitized in the Google book search).
• Bernd Mertens : Patrons, Feuerbach, Savigny. About the sovereignty of interpretation and the creation of legends in legal history. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-16-156575-5 .
• Luitpold Schaffner:  Patrons, Nikolaus Thaddäus Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 518 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Bernhard Spörlein: The older University of Bamberg (1648–1803). Volume 2. Scripvaz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-931278-15-8 , pp. 1174-1182 (biography).
• Emanuel Ullmann:  Patron, Nikolaus Thaddäus Ritter von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 367 f.
• Nikolaus Thaddäus v. Patrons . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . 5th year, part 1. Voigt, Ilmenau 1829, pp. 403-410 ( digitized in the Google book search).

Web links

• Literature by and about Nikolaus Thaddäus von Gönner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Nikolaus Thaddäus von Gönner  in the German Digital Library
• Commentary about the royal. Bavarian law of July 22, 1819 , Palm, Erlangen 1820
• Patron, Nikolaus Thaddäus Ritter von: December 18, 1764 Bamberg - April 18, 1827 Munich; Lawyer at bavarikon.de