Otto von Sarwey

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Otto von Sarwey 1900

Ernst Otto Claudius Sarwey , from 1889 von Sarwey , (born September 24, 1825 in Tübingen , † April 1, 1900 in Stuttgart ) was a German civil servant and politician. From 1885 to 1900, as Minister of State, he headed the Department of Churches and Schools in the Kingdom of Württemberg .

Life

Sarwey was Protestant. He came from a family who immigrated from Savoy to Württemberg in the 16th century and was the son of Magister Karl Gottlieb Friedrich Sarwey (1788–1843), then senior helper at the collegiate church in Tübingen , and Sophie Jäger, daughter of the director of the state debt fund. A younger brother of Sarwey's father was the High Tribunal Councilor Gottfried August von Sarwey (1796-1857).

Sarwey first attended the Lyceum in his hometown of Tübingen. He then studied law and philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University there from 1841 to 1847 . In 1847 he passed the first and in 1849 the second state examination in law . He then obtained a doctorate in Dr. jur. utr. In 1847 he appeared as a court clerk at the Upper District Court Rottweil into the Württemberg judicial service. From 1849 to 1868 he worked as a lawyer in Stuttgart . Sarwey married Franziska Siebold (1836–1901) in 1855. The couple had four children, including the judge Karl Sarwey (1862-1938) and the Rostock gynecologist Otto Claudius Sarwey (1864-1933).

Political career

From 1854 to 1859 Sarwey was a member of the city council of Stuttgart. From 1862 to 1869 he was a member of the local citizens' committee. As early as 1856 he succeeded in entering the second chamber of the estates . The mandate was given to him by the voters of the Oberamt Sulz , which he was initially able to defend in 1862, but then had to give up in March 1864 because of contesting the election. In July 1864, however, he was able to re-enter the Second Chamber after he won the vacant mandate in the Crailsheim Oberamt in the upcoming by-election. He held the Crailsheimer mandate uninterruptedly until 1876. In the Chamber of Deputies he belonged to the faction of the state party, which pursued a moderately conservative course and saw itself as a pillar of the government of the king. Sarwey won the trust of the Minister of State and later Prime Minister Hermann von Mittnacht . In February 1869, Sarwey was appointed senior tribunal councilor in the Ministry of Justice. In July 1870, he became a full member of the Privy Council .

His attempt to move into the customs parliament failed. In the state election in 1870, Sarwey was one of the supporters of the small German solution . From 1874 to 1876 Sarwey was a member of the 2nd German Reichstag . He won his seat in the Reichstag in the constituency of Württemberg 10 ( Gmünd , Göppingen , Welzheim , Schorndorf ). In the Reichstag he belonged to the faction of the German Reich Party . In the parliamentary negotiations on the implementation law for the Reich bankruptcy order, Sarwey was commissioner of the state government in 1878. In May 1883 he was appointed a member of the first chamber of the Württemberg estates for life, but resigned the mandate in May 1890.

On March 1, 1885, Sarwey succeeded Theodor von Gessler as Minister of State and Head of the Department of Churches and Schools in the Midnight Government . During Sarwey's tenure, numerous laws were passed that affected his portfolio. These included the law on the representation of the Protestant and Catholic parishes and the administration of the property of the parishes (1887 and 1888), the law on the reorganization of the local school authorities (1891) and the measures to improve the salaries of clergy and teachers at popular and Realschulen (1899). The so -called Law of Reversals of Religions of March 1898 also came essentially from Sarwey. This law regulated the administration of the Protestant regional church in the foreseeable event of the extinction of the Protestant main line of the House of Württemberg , with which the crown would have fallen to the Catholic line. However, the November Revolution of 1918 prevented the expected inheritance from occurring with the death of the dethroned King Wilhelm II in 1921.

On April 1, 1900, Sarwey suffered a fatal heart attack in his office in the Ministry of Culture . His grave is in the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart.

The grave of Otto von Sarwey and his wife Franziska in the family grave at the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart.

honors and awards

Works (selection)

With his work, Sarwey was in charge of administrative jurisdiction in Württemberg. The establishment of the Württemberg Administrative Court in 1876 was also thanks to his initiative.

  • Co-editor of the Württemberg Archives for Law and Legal Administration since 1859
  • Report of the minority of the constitutional commission of the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies against the agreement concluded with the Papal See , Metzler 1860. This report made a decisive contribution to the fact that the Württemberg government refrained from the treaty entered into with the Catholic Church and to the constant further development of the existing concordat regulations by law.
  • Report on the draft law on the relationship of state power to the Catholic Church , 1861
  • Comments on the Imperial Code of Civil Procedure, 1877
  • Comments on the Reich Bankruptcy Code
  • About the legal nature of the Concordate (in: Richard Dove (Ed.), Zeitschrift für Kirchenrecht)
  • Constitutionalism and official state, people and state (German quarterly journal)
  • About estate comparisons and the obligation to inherit
  • The parish and its representation
  • About administrative justice (Württ. Archive)
  • Public Law and Administrative Justice , 1880
  • The constitutional law of the Kingdom of Württemberg , 1883, 2 vol.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 242.
  2. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1886, p. 24

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personal data
SURNAME Sarwey, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarwey, Ernst Otto Claudius (full name until 1889); Sarwey, Ernst Otto Claudius von (full name from 1889)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1900
Place of death Stuttgart