Otto von Oehlschläger

President Otto von Oehlschläger, wood engraving after a photograph by Julius Braatz, from the gazebo in 1891

Otto von Oehlschläger

Otto Karl Oehlschläger , from 1888 by Oehlschläger , (born May 16, 1831 on Gut Heiligenwalde , East Prussia Province ; † January 14, 1904 in Charlottenburg , Brandenburg Province ) was a German judge. From 1891 to 1903 he was President of the Imperial Court . He is described as "highly conservative".

Name and family

The name Oehlschläger or Öhlschläger can be found in archives and Internet entries in both spellings. According to the Kösener corps lists , the spelling with "Oe" is correct. They also use the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility and documents in the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage .

Otto von Oehlschläger was the son of the Prussian bailiff Karl Oehlschläger (1801–1855), tenant of the Heiligenwalde domain in the Prussian Holland district . He married Marie Mellenthin on May 24, 1861 (born February 8, 1840 in Ristow , Pomerania province ; † November 2, 1930 in Berlin). Her son was the writer Hans von Oehlschläger (* 1862).

Life

From 1850 Oehlschläger studied law at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1851 he was one of the founders of the Corps Baltia Königsberg . In 1858 he became a court assessor , then took over judicial posts in Schwetz and Löbau in West Prussia and in 1864 joined the Marienwerder public prosecutor's office . From 1870 he worked at the City and District Court in Königsberg, in 1874 he was appointed lecturing council in the Prussian Ministry of Justice. He was one of the editors of the three-volume Prussian Forest and Hunting Laws (1878–1880). In the office of general auditor , which he held from 1879, Oehlschläger developed extensive proposals for reforming procedural military criminal law. In 1884 he became a member of the Prussian mansion , a year later a member of the Prussian State Council , Crown Syndicate and President of the Chamber Court . On May 5, 1888 by Emperor Friedrich III. Elevated to the Prussian nobility , he became State Secretary in the Reich Justice Office in 1889 . In 1890/91 he was chairman of the 2nd BGB Commission. In 1891 he succeeded Eduard von Simson as second President of the Imperial Court . An eye ailment forced him to resign on November 1, 1903 - shortly after his 50th anniversary in the service. He died of an accident in Charlottenburg the following year. One son was an officer and painter, the other died early after studying forestry .

In 1886 Oehlschläger was accepted into the lawless society in Berlin .

Honors

• Real Privy Council called Excellency
• Royal Crown Order (Prussia) 1st class
• Order of the Red Eagle with Oak Leaves 2nd and 1st class
• Honorary membership of the Corps Baltia (1888)
• Real Secret Chief Justice
• Nobilization in the three emperor year
• Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit
• Dr. iur. hc of the Albertus University (1894)
• Order of the Black Eagle (1901, Two Hundred Years of Prussia)

literature

• John Koch : President of the Imperial Court of Justice Otto von Oehlschläger . Deutsche Corpszeitung, Volume 46, No. 9, December 1929, p. 272 ​​f.
• Hermann Pilz: The new President of the Reichsgericht . In: The Gazebo . 1891, p. 198 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
• Anonymous report on retirement in the Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung (DJZ) 1903, Sp. 492 f.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser, part B 1933, page 377, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1933.
• Werner Schubert : Materials on the history of the creation of the BGB: Einf., Biographies, materials. Berlin, New York 1978, p. 104 f.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Vol. IX, Vol. 116 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN  0435-2408 .

Web links

Commons : Otto von Oehlschläger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rudolf Morsey : The highest Reich administration under Bismarck 1867-1890 . Münster 1957, p. 267
2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 137/4
3. ↑ ^{a b} Hans Lippold: Two East Prussians stood at the beginning. The first two presidents of the Imperial Court came from Königsberg and Heiligenwalde . The Ostpreußenblatt, May 12, 1973.