Richard Schmidt (lawyer)

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Richard Karl Bernhard Schmidt (born January 19, 1862 in Leipzig ; † March 13, 1944 there ) was a German political and legal scholar .

Life

Richard Schmidt was the son of the Leipzig professor for Saxon private law Bernhard Gottlob Schmidt (born September 14, 1822, † January 1, 1869). In 1880 he took a degree in law at the University of Leipzig and earned there on November 11, 1884 the legal doctoral degree . On October 20, 1887, Schmidt completed his habilitation in procedural law and criminal law, he held lectures as a private lecturer. On May 18, 1890, he became an associate professor and on August 1, 1891, he became a full professor at the University of Freiburg .

Here he was Vice-Rector of the University in 1903/04. From 1907 to 1912, Schmidt was a member of the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly as a member of the University of Freiburg . In 1913 he returned to his hometown, where he took over the professorship for criminal law, constitutional law and civil procedure law at the law faculty. In 1916/17, 1922/23 and 1928/29 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law and in 1920/21 Rector of the University of Leipzig . In 1934 he retired at the age of 72.

Richard Schmidt was one of the first hundred members of Hans Frank's National Socialist Academy for German Law from September 1933 with the number 69 . The third edition of 1934 of his "Introduction to Law", which was first published in 1921, documents his approval of the new law after the seizure of power of the Nazis . Schmidt was also a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig , director of the Institute for Politics and founded the magazine for politics . He was an honorary doctor from the University of Leipzig and Uppsala University .

Schmidt was married to Tilla Rosalin Ziegler (born April 29, 1875 in Würzburg, † July 14, 1946), a daughter of the pathologist Ernst Ziegler , since 1895 .

Richard Schmidt is one of those constitutional law teachers who, through the doctrine of the state, strove to regain political thought in the citizenry as well as in science. The legal rules of state life could not be isolated from the people and circumstances and he turned against legal positivism.

Fonts

  • Public prosecutor and private prosecutor. 1891.
  • Documents for the introduction to the Procescrecht. (With Friedrich Stein) 1890.
  • Extrajudicial exercise of procedural law. 1892.
  • The duties of criminal justice. 1895, 1999.
  • Textbook of German civil procedural law. Leipzig 1898.
  • The criminal responsibility of the doctor. 1900.
  • Origin of the inquisition process. 1901.
  • General political theory. 1st volume 1900, 2nd volume 1903.
  • Procedural law and constitutional law. 1904.
  • Zasius. 1904.
  • State Constitution and Court Constitution. Considerations on the problem of community jurisdiction. Mohr, Tübingen 1908.
  • The criminal law reform in its constitutional and political significance. Leipzig 1912, 1978.
  • Introduction to Law. Volume 1: Initial Terms in Legal Doctrine and Basics of Applicable Law. Meiner, Leipzig 1921.
  • Introduction to jurisprudence: Fundamentals of German law with the initial concepts of legal theory and the initial principles of legal philosophy. 2nd, complete edition, Meiner, Leipzig 1923.
  • Outline of German criminal law. Leipzig 1925, 1998.
  • The political teaching content in Goethe's life's work. Epilogue to the Goethe Memorial Days , in: Journal for Politics , Volume. 22, pp. 73-91 (1933).
  • Introduction to Law. Based on the new legal system , 3rd edition, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1934.
  • Priority principle or equalization principle in future German enforcement law. Berlin 1937.
  • Outline of the General State Doctrine or Politics. Stuttgart 1938.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Digital collection of Baden state parliament protocols at the Badische Landesbibliothek. List of members of both chambers .
  2. ↑ Preußische Justiz magazine , No. 41 of September 28, 1933, p. 479.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Richard Karl Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political and legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1944
Place of death Leipzig