Paul Herz (legal scholar)

Paul Herz (born April 21, 1854 at Hackhausen Castle , † September 9, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer .

Life

After attending grammar schools in Düsseldorf and Mühlhausen / Thuringia and studying law and political science at the universities of Heidelberg , Leipzig and Berlin , Herz received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1876 . After passing the assessor examination , he became an unskilled worker at the Imperial Admiralty in 1881 and, from 1882, a station auditor in Wilhelmshaven . In 1886 he was appointed imperial councilor and in 1890 he was appointed professor of international law at the naval academy in Kiel. From 1892 worked as a secret admiralty council and lecturing council (legal advisor) in the Reichsmarineamt and finally from 1900 as senate president at the Reichsmilitarygericht . In addition to the publication of basic military law works, he worked as co-editor of the journal for the entire criminal law science .

From 1884 he was married to Johanna Lickfett (1858–1932). He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Fonts

• Military court order for the German Reich of December 1, 1898 together with the introductory law and law on the official offenses of judicial military justice officers and their involuntary transfer to another position or to retirement , text edition with comments and subject index, Berlin 1899
• Military Criminal Code for the German Reich of July 20, 1872 , text edition with notes and subject index, Berlin 1903 (with Georg Ernst)
• Criminal Law of the Military Personnel: Handbook of the essential material and formal criminal laws applicable to military personnel with notes and subject index , Berlin 1905 (with Georg Ernst)
• Addendum to the Military Criminal Code , Berlin 1914 (explanatory edition)

literature

• Franz Neubert: Deutsches Zeitgenossen-Lexikon , Leipzig 1905, p. 428
• Who is it Our contemporaries , 4th edition, 1909, p. 339