Police attorney

A police lawyer was a public prosecutor who mostly officials of the higher service , however, was prosecutorial perceived tasks. In many cases, the mayor also performed these tasks.

history

The term police attorney (police attorney) appears in official gazettes, ordinances, and laws from the early 19th century. Police attorneys were u. a. active in the kingdoms of Prussia , Bavaria, Saxony, but also in cities like Hamburg.

"In the administrative districts of the Palatinate, the State Ministry of Justice appoints a judicial police officer named 'Police Attorney' for one or more regional courts."

- Journal of Laws No. 65 for the Kingdom of Bavaria: 1866–1869

activity

The police attorney investigated facts relating to police offenses and, if there was sufficient suspicion, submitted written charges to the court. He took part in the oral proceedings and was able to contest judgments by means of an appeal .

literature

FW Pohl: The police laws and government regulations for the province of Silesia. Aderholz 1854, p. 449.
A. Noback: Latest Collectaneen of the Prussian Forest Management Forms and the related regulations, instructions. Verlag Amthor 1871, p. 139.
Maximilian Becker: Fellow campaigners in the national struggle: German justice in the incorporated eastern regions 1939–1945. Volume 101 of sources and representations on contemporary history, Walter de Gruyter 2014, ISBN 3-110-3537-33 , p. 72.

Well-known police attorneys (selection)

Heinrich Willde (1834–1920)
Karl Maenner (1850–1927)
Ludwig von Hanxleden (1821-1891)
Rudolph Neuss (1826-1892)

Individual evidence

^ Hinrich Rüping : Police Attorney - Public Prosecutor - Public Prosecutor. In: Jost Hausmann, Thomas Krause (Ed.): To maintain good order. Cologne 2000, pp. 537-553.
↑ Bavarian State Parliament. Second Chamber of the State Assembly: Negotiations of the Bavarian State Parliament. Kgl. Hof- und Universitäts-Buchdruckerei 1871, p. 176.

^ Heinrich Redeker: The reorganization of the Hamburg police in the 19th century. Günther publisher 1932.

↑ Johann-August-Ludwig Fürstenthal: Real-Encyclopedia of the entire common law applicable in Germany, or concise dictionary of Roman and German private, state, international, church, feudal, criminal and trial law. Verlag August Rücker 1827, Volume 2, p. 625.

↑ The police system. Supplement Vol., Volume 1; Volume 6 Published 1844. p.223.

[1] Hinrich Rüping : Police Attorney - Public Prosecutor - Public Prosecutor. In: Jost Hausmann, Thomas Krause (Ed.): To maintain good order. Cologne 2000, pp. 537-553.

[2] Bavarian State Parliament. Second Chamber of the State Assembly: Negotiations of the Bavarian State Parliament. Kgl. Hof- und Universitäts-Buchdruckerei 1871, p. 176.

[3] Heinrich Redeker: The reorganization of the Hamburg police in the 19th century. Günther publisher 1932.

[4] Johann-August-Ludwig Fürstenthal: Real-Encyclopedia of the entire common law applicable in Germany, or concise dictionary of Roman and German private, state, international, church, feudal, criminal and trial law. Verlag August Rücker 1827, Volume 2, p. 625.

[5] The police system. Supplement Vol., Volume 1; Volume 6 Published 1844. p.223.