Paul Knoke

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Karl Albert Paul Knoke (born August 27, 1874 in Wunstorf ; † February 21, 1963 in Celle ) was a German lawyer and professor of public law . For more than a quarter of a century he headed the administration of the aristocratic family Braunschweig-Lüneburg .

family

Paul Knoke comes from a family of educators and theologians from Linsburg near Nienburg an der Weser . Knoke was born on August 27, 1874 as the third of four children of the theologian Karl Knoke and his wife Pauline, b. Brackebusch, in Wunstorf , where my father taught at the seminar there.

On May 15, 1902, he married Elisabeth Knoke, daughter of his eldest uncle, Hermann Knoke, superintendent in Walsrode . His youngest uncle was the classical philologist and local researcher Friedrich Knoke . Knoke's younger sister Elise married the theologian Wilhelm Heitmüller . Knoke had five children: Georg Wilhelm, Marie Elisabeth, Ernst August, Karl Hermann and Christian Ludwig. He survived his wife by 16 years before he died on February 21, 1963 in Celle .

academic career

In 1882, Knoke's father was appointed to the University of Göttingen . Knoke passed his Abitur in Göttingen after initially starting school in Wunstorf.

Then Knoke began studying law in Heidelberg , continued it in Göttingen, and passed the first state examination in law on May 18, 1895 at the Higher Regional Court of Celle . Three months later, on August 23, 1895, the almost twenty-one year old did his doctorate in Göttingen with an award-winning dissertation on a subject from canon law.

On November 18, 1899, the assessor exam followed in Celle ; on February 21, 1901, the law faculty of the Georg August University awarded him the Venia legendi . From 1902 Knoke supported Prince Georg Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , grandson of the last King of Hanover, in his studies in Heidelberg. In 1904 Knoke was appointed associate professor for Roman law and civil law at the Albertina in Königsberg ; In 1913 he was appointed full honorary professor. In 1914, Knoke also received a chair in Roman and Community law at the Albertina.

Administration of the House of Braunschweig-Lüneburg

As early as 1906 the exile administration of the Duke of Cumberland had asked in vain whether Knoke would not enter the Duke's service. When he received another offer from the Guelphs in 1915 , he accepted. The request no longer came from Ernst August von Hannover (II.) From Gmunden in Austria, but from his youngest son Ernst August von Hannover (III.) , The new regent of the Duchy of Braunschweig , who had ascended the throne on November 1st, 1913 .

On October 15, 1915, Ernst August von Hanover appointed Paul Knoke as his head of cabinet, and in the following year he also assumed the position of chief of the administration of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . With this, Knoke was also awarded the associated titles “ Privy Councilor ” or “Real Privy Councilor” and “Excellence”. On November 8, 1918, the Duke abdicated, with Knoke, as its head of administration, signed the deed of abdication with others. As a result, he succeeded in reaching an agreement with the Council of People's Commissars to take over court officials in the Duke's personal service.

In 1919 the Knoke family followed the Duke into exile in Gmunden in Austria. There Knoke took over the management of the entire building in 1921, including the Cumberland administration. The first six years of his activity were mainly characterized by legal disputes with the state of Braunschweig over the chamber property . The core of the dispute was the question of whether it was the private property of the Welfenhaus or property that was due to the respective boss of the house in his function as sovereign.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Website of the Knoke family. Göttingen branch.
  2. ↑ Historical-dogmatic investigation of the use of secular punishments against life, limb, property, freedom and civil honor in the ecclesiastical criminal law of the Catholic during the pre-Gratian period. An award typeface awarded by the law faculty of the university. Göttingen: Dieterichsche Univ.-Buchdruckerei (W. Fr. Kaestner), 1895.
  3. ↑ Kulturerbe.niedersachsen.de
personal data
SURNAME Knoke, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knoke, Karl Albert Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and professor for public law
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Wunstorf
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1963
Place of death Celle