Otto Rudorff

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Otto August Friedrich Rudorff (born December 9, 1845 in Lauenstein ; † November 22, 1922 in Hamburg ) was a German legal scholar and judge as well as legal advisor in the Japanese Ministry of Justice in the Meiji era .

Life

Otto Rudorff came from a family of lawyers. His father was a lawyer, his uncle Adolf August Friedrich Rudorff professor of law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . After studying law at the Universities of Göttingen , Heidelberg and Berlin , Rudorff passed his first legal examination in Celle in 1867 . During his studies he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity .

After Rudorff had also passed the major legal state examination in 1871, he became a court assessor and worked as a police attorney in Göttingen until he was transferred to the Bonn Regional Court in February 1872 . This was followed by positions as a justice of the peace in Baumholder (1872), as a judge in Düsseldorf (1874), as a district judge in Kassel (1879) and as a regional and district judge in Hanover (1881).

In 1884, on the recommendation of the envoy of Japan in Berlin Aoki Shūzō , Rudorff was called to the University of Tokyo to give lectures on Roman and public law . However, he was released from teaching at the university again in 1885 and hired as a consultant in the Ministry of Justice to "answer legal questions from the boards of all courts, the public prosecutor's offices and the departments and subdivisions of the Ministry of Justice on the instructions of the Minister of Justice, and by special order of the Minister of Justice in to attend all the courts in the proceedings and to advise the judges or to express their opinion " .
During this time, Rudorff had a particular influence on the drafting of the Japanese Courts Constitution Act of 1890, which is largely based on a draft drawn up by him and based on the German Courts Constitution Act of 1877.

After the end of his activity in Japan, Rudorff returned to Germany in 1890 and from January 1, 1891 worked again as a regional judge at the Hanover regional court, before becoming regional court director in Elberfeld in 1892 . In 1894, Rudorff left the Prussian civil service and became a senior judge at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, where he worked until his retirement on March 1, 1916.

Awards

literature

  • Paul-Christian Schenck: The German part in shaping the modern Japanese legal and constitutional system: German legal advisers in Japan during the Meiji period . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997.
  • Wilhelm Röhl, German lawyers in Japan: Otto Rudorff . In: Journal for Japanese Law, No. 5/1998, pp. 54–63.
  • Hideo Nakamura: Japan and German civil procedure law: anthology of civil procedure treatises . tape 2 . Seibundo, Tokyo 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Röhl: German lawyers in Japan: Otto Rudorff . In: Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht, No. 5/1998, pp. 54, 57.
  2. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 123.
  3. ^ Paul-Christian Schenck: The German part in shaping the modern Japanese legal and constitutional system: German legal advisors in Japan during the Meiji period . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, p. 340 f .
  4. ^ Wilhelm Röhl: German lawyers in Japan: Otto Rudorff . In: Journal of Japanese Law, No. 5/1998, pp. 54, 59 f.
  5. ↑ Hideo Nakamura: Japan and the German civil procedure law: anthology of civil procedure treatises . tape 2 . Seibundo, Tokyo 2007, p. 140 .
  6. ^ Paul-Christian Schenck: The German part in shaping the modern Japanese legal and constitutional system: German legal advisors in Japan during the Meiji period . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, p. 340 f .
personal data
SURNAME Rudorff, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudorff, Otto August Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and judge
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauenstein
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1922
Place of death Hamburg