Philipp Zorn

Philipp Zorn (born January 13, 1850 in Bayreuth , † January 4, 1928 in Ansbach ) was a German canon and constitutional lawyer in Bern, Königsberg and Bonn.

Life

Zorn was born into an evangelical pastor's family with many children. After graduating from high school Carolinum (Ansbach) , he studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He spent a semester at the University of Leipzig . Doctorate in 1872 and habilitation in 1874, he was appointed to the University of Bern . His further path led to Königsberg and Bonn. In 1887/88 he was rector of the Albertus University in Königsberg and in 1910/11 rector of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . As a scientific delegate, Zorn represented the German Reich at the two Hague Peace Conferences (1899 and 1907) and at the Geneva Conference (1906) . As King of Prussia, Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed him to the Prussian mansion in 1905 ; at the same time he was appointed crown syndic.

Zorn's marriage to Maria Kayser in 1875 resulted in three sons. The oldest, Albert Zorn (1876–1925), was most recently the district court director in Stade. The youngest son, Dr. rer. pole. Konrad Zorn (1882–1959) was a district administrator in the Osterburg district and administrative court director at the Minden administrative court .

Turned to history from his youth , Zorn was of Prussian-Protestant sentiment. From 1890 until he left for Bonn, he was President of the Provincial Synod of the Church Province of East Prussia . His intolerance towards Catholicism only eased during his time in Bonn. Zorn saw the core of Germany in a peasant and petty bourgeois class. He rejected as Monarchist the parliamentary system and became followers of the German Conservative Party . In 1892 he opposed the anti-Semitic Tivoli program of the German conservatives.

Zorn had been a member of the Isaria Corps since 1868 . He operated Isaria's transformation from a life corps into an arms corps . In Königsberg he was the chairman of the district association of old corps students until 1900 . Zorn was one of those who recommended that the free country team Littuania join the Königsberg Senior Citizens' Convention and thus the Kösener SC Association .

Honors

Honorary member of the Corps Isaria
Philipp-Zorn-Strasse in Ansbach

Works

State and Church in Switzerland (1877/78)
Textbook of Canon Law (1888)
The constitutional law of the German Reich. 2 volumes (1895–1897)
Philipp Zorn, Herbert von Berger (editor): Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Ed. By Siegfried Körte , Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell, among others, 3 volumes. R. Hobbing, Berlin 1914. Independent contributions therein:
- Constitutional and administrative law
- State and Church
Germany and the Two Hague Peace Conferences (1920)
Autobiography, in: The jurisprudence of the present in self-portrayals. Vol. 1 (1924)
From a German university life. Röhrscheid, Bonn 1927, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 5: 1-33956 .
Editor of the 5th edition of Ludwig von Rönne : The state law of the Prussian monarchy. 3 volumes (1899-1916).

literature

Paul Schoen, in: Prussian Administration Gazette . January 10, 1920.
Heinrich Pohl: Philipp Zorn as a researcher, teacher and politician. Leaves in memory of him. Mohr, Tübingen 1928, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 5: 1-25925 .
Konrad Fuchs : Philipp Zorn. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 584-588. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Literature by and about Philipp Zorn in the catalog of the German National Library
Historical Commission Munich: Zorn's Rector's speeches

Individual evidence

^ Rector's speech: For the humanistic grammar school .
↑ Rector's speech: The German Reich and international arbitration
↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 111/769
↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 111/843
↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia, Volume I. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1968, p. 327 f.
↑ K. Fuchs 1998, p. literature
↑ Kösener Corp lists 1960 109/544
^ Academic monthly books XII, 425

personal data
SURNAME	Zorn, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German constitutional lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 13, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH	January 4, 1928
Place of death	Ansbach

[1] Rector's speech: For the humanistic grammar school .

[2] Rector's speech: The German Reich and international arbitration

[3] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 111/769

[4] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 111/843

[5] Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia, Volume I. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1968, p. 327 f.

[6] K. Fuchs 1998, p. literature

[7] Kösener Corp lists 1960 109/544

[8] Academic monthly books XII, 425