Paul Merkel (lawyer)

Paul Sigmund Jakob Merkel (born September 18, 1872 in Rostock , † December 10, 1943 in Munich ) was a German legal scholar and professor for criminal and procedural law .

Life

Paul Merkel, son of the physician Friedrich Sigmund Merkel (1845-1919) and Anna Henle (1850-1923), was in 1896 at the University of Göttingen to Dr. iur. PhD . During his studies in Göttingen he became a member of the Georgia Augusta student choir in the special houses association in 1890/91 . In 1897 he became an assessor . After his habilitation in 1900 at the University of Marburg , he worked as a private lecturer . In the autumn of 1906 he received an extraordinary professorship at the University of Königsberg . In 1909 he became associate professor, and in 1916 full professor for criminal and procedural law at the University of Greifswald . During the First World War , he did military service from 1914 to 1918. In 1925 he was rector of the university.

Because of his maternal grandfather, the physician Jakob Henle (1809–1885), Merkel was classified as a quarter Jew during the National Socialist era . Because of the resulting discrimination, he applied for his release. This was granted in 1936. Paul Merkel later moved to Munich, where he died in 1943. Paul Merkel had been married to Margarethe Dürck (1874–1953), a granddaughter of Wilhelm von Kaulbach , since 1900 . The marriage had five children.

Fonts

Inspection by omission. 1896.
The certificate in German criminal law. 1902.
Criminal procedure and penal law. Spaeth & Linde, Berlin 1931.
To differentiate between perpetration and aiding and abetting. Ratsbuchhandlung L. Bamberg, Greifswald 1925.
Outline of criminal law. L. Röhrscheid, Bonn 1927.

literature

Gustav Radbruch, Günter Spendel: Letters . I. (1898-1918). In: Arthur Kaufmann (Ed.): Gustav Radbruch. Complete edition . tape 17 . CF Müller, Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 3-8114-0690-6 , pp. 349 ( Google books ).

Web links

Literature by and about Paul Merkel in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature about Paul Merkel in the state bibliography MV
Prof. Dr. jur. Paul Merkel. In: Family data from the Paul Wolfgang Merkel Family Foundation. December 19, 1998, accessed October 3, 2010 .

Individual evidence

↑ Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 22.
^ Eva-Maria Auch: The persecution of Jewish university teachers in Greifswald. In: Margret Heitmann, Julius H. Schoeps (ed.): "Keep away from the whole country any ruin ..." History and culture of the Jews in Pomerania. Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1995, ISBN 3-487-10074-6 , p. 434. (Deviating from other literature sources, Eva-Maria also gives 1936 as the year of death and the grandfather's family name with Henk instead of Henle.)

predecessor	Office	successor
Paul Schroeder	Rector of the University of Greifswald in 1925	Friedrich Kruger

personal data
SURNAME	Merkel, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Merkel, Paul Sigmund Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar and university professor for criminal and procedural law
DATE OF BIRTH	September 18, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rostock
DATE OF DEATH	December 10, 1943
Place of death	Munich

[1] Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 22.

[2] Eva-Maria Auch: The persecution of Jewish university teachers in Greifswald. In: Margret Heitmann, Julius H. Schoeps (ed.): "Keep away from the whole country any ruin ..." History and culture of the Jews in Pomerania. Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1995, ISBN 3-487-10074-6 , p. 434. (Deviating from other literature sources, Eva-Maria also gives 1936 as the year of death and the grandfather's family name with Henk instead of Henle.)