Oscar Küntzel

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Oscar Rudolph Küntzel (born September 26, 1834 in Meseritz , † April 15, 1914 in Berlin ) was chairman of the 2nd BGB commission, undersecretary in the Ministry of Justice and president of the Marienwerder Higher Regional Court .

Life

The son of a district judge from Meseritz passed the Abitur at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Posen in 1854 and wanted to study law in Bonn. He passed the legal trainee examination in 1859 and the great state law examination in 1861. He was then used as a court assessor at the Poznan Court of Appeal. In 1864 he was appointed district judge in Samter and then transferred to Schroda . In 1871 he was promoted to district judge. In 1875 he came to the Berlin City Court as a city judge. With the Reich Justice Laws he traded as District Court Counselor at the District Court of Berlin I. He was appointed Chamber Court Counselor in 1881. In 1885 he came to the Prussian Ministry of Justice and was appointed to the Privy Councilor of Justice and Lecturing Council. At the same time he became a member of the Judicial Examination Commission. In 1889 he was appointed as a secret senior judicial councilor. In 1890 he managed to become a member of the 2nd BGB Commission and received the report on property law. After Hanauer's death in 1893 he became chairman of the commission and in 1894 was given the appropriate title Real Secret Higher Justice Councilor. After the work was completed in 1896, he was appointed President of the Marienwerder Higher Regional Court. He did not take the position because he was in charge of drafting the Prussian implementing laws for the BGB in the Prussian Ministry of Justice. In 1900 he remained permanently in the ministry when he was appointed Undersecretary of State. In 1902 he was awarded the title of Excellence. From 1903 to 1914 he was also president of the Disciplinary Court for non-judicial officials. On the occasion of his retirement on June 1, 1913, he was awarded diamonds for the Order of the Red Eagle with Oak Leaves . He was co-editor of Julius Albert Gruchot's “Contributions to the Explanation of German Law” and held honorary doctorates from the Universities of Halle and Königsberg.

His son Georg Küntzel (1870–1945) was a historian and rector in Frankfurt am Main.

literature

  • "Personnel changes in the Prussian judicial administration" , Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung, year 18 (1913), column 573
  • Werner Schubert : Materials on the history of the creation of the BGB: Einf., Biographies, materials. Berlin, New York 1978, p. 102f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ About the speeches of Thucydides / Schulnachrichten, Posen 1854, p. 61.