Otto Dambach

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Otto Dambach , full name: Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Dambach (born December 16, 1831 in Querfurt , † May 18, 1899 in Berlin ) was a lawyer and professor.

Life

Dambach studied law in Berlin from 1848 to 1851 . In 1853 he obtained the title: Doctor of Law and became a trainee lawyer. 1856 court assessor and then worked as a public prosecutor at the Berlin City Court. In 1862 he became public prosecutor and part-time assistant legal counsel in the general post office , as well as legal counsel for the Oberpostdirektion and TD Berlin. Taken on December 6, 1862 as senior post councilor . 1865 go. Postrat, 1866 lecturer. Council, 1869 Go. Oberpostrat, 1884 Act. Go Oberpostrat, 1896 Act. Go Council and lecturing council in the Reich Post Office . In this position he took part in all the major development phases of the German postal and telegraph system and contributed to the passing of numerous laws, not only in the field of the postal and telegraph system, such as the Reich Postal Law of October 28, 1871, but also in particular the area of copyright .

In 1873 he was appointed associate professor of law at the University of Berlin , where he read about criminal law , constitutional law and international law . In addition, he was a member of the commission for the first legal examination at the Higher Regional Court in Berlin.

From 1891 until his death in 1899 he was a member of the Prussian manor house .

Otto Dambach died in Berlin in 1899 at the age of 67 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939 on this cemetery, Dambach's remains were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin.

Works

  • Contributions to the doctrine of the statute of limitations (Berlin 1860)
  • The Legislation of the North German Confederation , Regarding Copyright in Written Works (Berlin 1871)
  • Telegraph Criminal Law (Berlin 1872; into French translated Bern 1872)
  • The law on the postal system of the German Reich of October 28, 1871 explained (Berlin 1872, 4th edition 1881)
  • The Design Protection Act of January 11, 1876 (Berlin 1876)
  • The Patent Act for the German Empire (Berlin 1877)
  • The Franco-German Literature Treaty (Berlin 1883)
  • with Ludwig Eduard Heydemann : The Prussian reprinting legislation (Berlin 1863) and as a continuation to it
  • with Ludwig Eduard Heydemann: Expert opinion of the royal Prussian literary expert association on reprints and replicas from the years 1864-73 (Leipzig 1874)

Dambach also worked on in Franz von Holtzendorff's Handbuch des Deutschen Criminalrechts , Vol. 3–4, the subject of reprinting and reproduction (Berlin 1874–77).

Web links

literature

  • oA: Otto Dambach. In: Commercial legal protection and copyright. 4, No. 6, 1899, p. 200. [Obituary]
  • Paul Daude: Otto Dambach. In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung. 4, No. 11, 1899, pp. 230–231 (digitized via Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, mpier.mpg.de ). [Obituary]
  • Friedemann Kawohl: Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Dambach (1831-1899) . In: Simon Apel, Louis Pahlow , Matthias Wießner (eds.): Biographisches Handbuch des Intellectual Property , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, pp. 64–68.
  • Albert TeichmannDambach, Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 615 f.
  • Manual dictionary of the postal system (1st edition: p. 174, 3rd edition: p. 458)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 300, 466.