Wetzlar Law School

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The Wetzlar Law School was a German university in Wetzlar that existed from 1808 to 1816.

history

For more than a century, Wetzlar was the seat of the Imperial Chamber Court, the highest court in the Holy Roman Empire . At that time the court became the most important economic factor in Wetzlar, until it was dissolved in 1806 and numerous lawyers left the city. In order to cushion the economic disadvantages of this emigration, Prince Primate Karl Theodor von Dalberg had a law college founded in Wetzlar . The facility should help to bind some of the well-known lawyers from the area around the Reich Chamber of Commerce to Wetzlar. Dalberg commissioned one of the lawyers previously employed at the court, Franz Ferdinand Michael Stickel , with the conception and organizational preparation of the facility. In 1808 the university was opened in Dalberg's name. Initially, six paid professors taught there, and the lectures were free of charge for nationals and foreigners. By 1809 around 30 students were enrolled.

In 1816 the law faculty was dissolved again by a royal cabinet order. After the institution was closed, the important library of the law school was moved to the Bonn University Library.

The building

The school used the Arnsburger Hof , a former Jesuit branch in the east of Wetzlar's old town, as a building. After the legal school closed, the Wetzlar grammar school, today's Goetheschule Wetzlar , moved into the building.

Personalities

Karl von Abel studied at the law school, his father was a professor there

Among other things, the following have studied or taught at the Wetzlar School of Law:

  • Jacob Adam Abel , 1754–1824, procurator at the Imperial Court of Justice, professor at the law school;
  • Egid von Löhr , 1784–1851, professor at the law school and later professor at the University of Giessen;
  • Franz Joseph Musset , 1786–1859, professor at the law school, later president of the Higher Appeal Court;
  • Franz Ferdinand Michael Stickel , 1787–1848, attorney at the Imperial Court of Justice, then professor at the law school;
  • Karl von Abel , 1788–1859, studied at the law school, later Bavarian. Minister of State of the Interior;
  • Bernhard Eberhard , 1795–1860, studied at the law school, later Minister of the Electorate of Hesse;
  • Albert von Vahlkampf , 1799–1858, studied at the law school, later Minister of State (Sachsen-Meiningen).

literature

  • Irene Jung: Wetzlar. A little city history. Sutton Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-715-0 .
  • M. Biermer: The law school in Wetzlar. In: Communications of the Upper Hessian History Association. Volume 12, 1903, pp. 103-112.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung. November 29, 1808 ( google preview )
  2. ^ GF Heyer: Germanien, a journal for state law, politics and statistics of Germany. 1809.
  3. ^ Herbert Hömig: Karl-Theodor von Dalberg. Statesman and prince of the church in the shadow of Napoleon. 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77240-4 .