Robert Piloty (lawyer)

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Robert Ferdinand Piloty (born September 1, 1863 in Munich ; † June 20, 1926 in Ebenhausen near Munich) was a German legal scholar , politician ( DDP ) and art collector . He was a professor at the University of Würzburg and a member of the Bavarian State Parliament and was instrumental in drafting the Bamberg constitution of 1919.

Life

Piloty was born in 1863 as the son of the history painter and later director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , Carl Theodor von Piloty - although the father's title of nobility was not hereditary - and his wife; his grandfather was the lithographer Ferdinand Piloty . From 1873 to 1881 he attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich . After graduating from high school - with Gustav Kahr and Carl von Tubeuf , among others - he was a one-year volunteer in the 3rd field artillery regiment "Prince Leopold" of the Bavarian Army in Munich.

He studied at the request of his father law at the universities of Munich and Berlin in 1885 he passed the first state examination and completed the clerkship at the district court Starnberg , at the Munich District Court , the District Court of Munich I , the district office of Munich I and Munich lawyers from. In 1888 he passed the examination for the higher judicial and administrative service in Munich. In the same year he was awarded a doctorate by Max von Seydel with his dissertation The Liability of the State for the Civil Servant 's Offenses. iur. PhD. In 1890 he completed his habilitation on the subject of imperial accident insurance law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . He was then a private lecturer in private law (1890/91), deputy chair of his teacher von Seydel (1891–1895) and associate professor at the University of Munich. In 1895, he succeeded Karl Freiherr von Stengel as a full professor of general, German and Bavarian constitutional law and administrative law at the University of Würzburg. In 1921/22 he was dean of the law faculty. He turned down offers to the universities of Heidelberg (1908) and Göttingen (1918). In 1912 Piloty received the title of Privy Councilor . Shortly before his death (1926), his chair was represented by private lecturer and councilor Heinrich Vervier ; Piloty's successor in 1927 was constitutional and administrative lawyer Wilhelm Laforet .

From 1914 he was deployed as a first lieutenant in the Landwehr during the First World War , and later served as a military hospital commandant in Bad Kissingen until 1915 . From 1915 to 1916 he was the leader of a light ammunition column in Lorraine . Due to severe pneumonia in 1916, he spent several months in the hospital. Awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Military Merit Order IV. Class with Swords, Piloty was discharged from military service in 1917.

In 1918 he publicly demanded the abdication of Emperor Wilhelm II. In 1919 he was a co-founder and board member of the Volkshochschule Würzburg and in 1920 editor of the Volkshochschule . From 1921 he was a board member of the State Association for Popular Education in Bavaria. He was a member of the Theater Culture Association, the Association of Republican University Lecturers and a member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . In the state elections in Bavaria in 1919 , he received a mandate in the constituency of Würzburg I, II, III, Lohr and entered the Bavarian state parliament for the German Democratic Party, of which he was a co-founder in Würzburg . He belonged to the committee to discuss the draft of an elementary school teacher law and a school supplies law, the II. Constitutional Committee, the Constitutional Committee and the XII. People's Court Committee. He was also a member of the Bavarian State Court .

He made important contributions in the areas of international insurance law and gun law . In 1914 he was a delegate of the German Committee for International Social Insurance in Paris. He also took part in the international conference for the League of Nations in Bern in 1917 and was a founding member of the Association for International Understanding in 1919 . He was instrumental in drafting the Bamberg constitution (1919), the first democratic constitution in Bavaria. Piloty was u. a. Co-editor of the Yearbook of Public Law (1907–1926) and the Handbook of Contemporary Public Law in Monographs (from 1899; with Paul Laband and Georg Jellinek ) and of the Public Law Archives (1908–1926).

Piloty, baptized Protestant, was married to Melanie, daughter of the secret councilor of commerce and industrial pioneer Otto von Steinbeis , and the father of four sons, two of whom died in the First World War . His brother Oskar Piloty died in 1915. He died in 1926 in the Ebenhausen sanatorium near Munich because of his lung disease that broke out again. Piloty was buried in the north cemetery in Munich. Throughout his life he was devoted to art and culture, so he worked in the Würzburg Madrigal Choir and was a co-founder of the Association for Folk Concerts. Piloty was also a well-known collector of art , antiques and coins , whose collections were auctioned off in 1911 and 1927 as part of auctions at Hugo Helbing and Otto Helbing Nachf. In Munich. As early as 1896, Piloty donated two bas-reliefs by the Würzburg sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider to the Franconian Art and Antiquity Association . The art dealer Karl Haberstock , who specializes in old masters and has been active in Würzburg since 1905, maintained a close acquaintance with Piloty.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Law:

  • The liability of the state for the wrongful acts of its officials. Legal dissertation at the University of Munich. Munich 1888
  • The workers insurance laws. Munich 1893
  • The Reich accident insurance law, its history and system. (3 volumes, 1890-1893)
  • Drafts and arbitration tribunals of the stately houses, especially in Bavaria. Charlottenburg (1910)
  • The right of expression in the field of the Bavarian civil service. Munich 1911
  • The right of the primary school supervision in Bavaria. (1911)
  • Forms of international understanding. Stuttgart 1913
  • Max von Seydel : Bavarian constitutional law. (edited with Josef von Grassmann , based on the 2nd edition 1913)
  • Critical considerations on the interpretation of Article 35 of the Bavarian Civil Service Act of August 16, 1908. (1914)
  • The parliamentary system. (1917)
  • The peace offer of the Central Powers. (1917) online at Munich Digitization Center
  • Draft constitution for the People's State of Bavaria. Munich 1919
  • The constitutional charter of the Free State of Bavaria. (ed., 1919)
  • The current legal situation of the Bavarian school system. (1920)
  • with Franz Schneider: Outline of administrative law in Bavaria and the German Empire. (1921, 4th / 5th edition 1930)

Poems and essays:

  • Poems by Robert Piloty. JG Cotta "sche Buchhandlung Nachhaben, Stuttgart and Berlin 1907
  • Max von Seydel. An obituary. Munich 1901
  • Gustav Siegler. A picture of life. Stuttgart 1909
  • Ernst Moritz Arndt. Its significance for the German present. Wuerzburg 1914

See also

literature

Biographical and legal literature.

  • Franz Neubert (ed.): German contemporary lexicon. Leipzig, Schulze 1905.
  • Max Geissler: Guide through the German literature of the 20th century. A. Duncker, Berlin 1913.
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Saur, Munich and Leipzig 1936.
  • Otto Liebmann : [Obituary] . In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung 31, 1926, Sp. 948 f.
  • Manfred Friedrich:  Piloty, Robert Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 445 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Otto Liebmann (ed.): The law faculty of the University of Berlin. From its foundation to the present in words and pictures, in documents and letters 1810–1910. Announcement of the German Juristen-Zeitung for the centenary of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin. Otto Liebmann, Berlin 1910.
  • Editing and publishing of the archives of public law: Robert Piloty † . In: Archives of Public Law 1926, p. 161.
  • Otto Koellreutter : Foreword . In: Yearbook of Public Law of the Present 14, 1926, SV
  • Werner Dettelbacher: The founding of the Volkshochschule Würzburg in 1918 . W. Dettelbacher, Würzburg 1993, pp. 7-10.
  • Andreas Röpke: The Würzburg Faculty of Law from 1815 to 1914. Legal studies and teaching in Würzburg between the Restoration and the First World War (= Würzburg juristic writings . Vol. 27). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-935556-77-2 , pp. 221-223.
  • Christopher Benkert: The Law Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1914 to 1960. Education and science under the sign of the two world wars (= Würzburg jurisprudential writings . Vol. 62). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-89913-481-8 , pp. 163-166.

Auction catalogs

  • Hugo Helbing (Ed.): Antiques, especially jewelry, miniatures, small sculptures, wooden sculptures, furniture, textiles, paintings, engravings and books: Collection of the university professor Dr. Robert Piloty, Würzburg. [Auction at Galerie Helbing in Munich, Tuesday, 14th, Wednesday, 15th and Thursday, 16th November 1911] . Helbing, Munich 1911 ( digitized version )
  • Collection † Privy Councilor Professor Robert Piloty. Coins and medals from Würzburg . In: Otto Helbing Nachf. (Ed.): Coin auction from Monday, October 24, 1927. Otto Helbing Nachf., Munich, Barerstr. 20. Ludwig Jäger Collection, Freiburg im Breisgau Baden, Alsace; Collection of Geh.-Rat Prof. Robert Piloty, Würzburg, Diocese of Würzburg; Coins and medals from many times and countries with many rarities in all areas including well-known series from Passau, Bavaria, Kempten etc. (collections Jäger, Piloty, Hellmansberger etc.). Medieval coins; Collection Hofrat Hermann etc. Greek coins and Roman coins. Numismatic books and coin boxes . Helbing, Munich 1927, pp. 54–92 ( digitized version )

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Röpke: The Würzburg Faculty of Law from 1815 to 1914. Legal studies and legal teaching in Würzburg between the Restoration and the First World War (= Würzburg juristic writings . Vol. 27). Ergon, Verlag, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-935556-77-2 , p. 221.
  2. ↑ Annual report for the k. Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich for the school year 1873/74 (until 1880/81)
  3. ↑ Andreas Röpke: The Würzburger Juristenfakultät from 1815 to 1914. Legal studies and teaching in Würzburg between the Restoration and the First World War (= Würzburg juristic writings . Vol. 27). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-935556-77-2 , p. 281.
  4. ↑ Christopher Benkert: The Law Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1914 to 1960. Education and science under the sign of the two world wars (= Würzburg legal writings . Vol. 62). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-89913-481-8 , p. 291.
  5. ↑ Hugo Helbing (Ed.): Antiques, especially jewelry, miniatures, small sculptures, wooden sculptures, furniture, textiles, paintings, engravings and books: Collection of the university professor Dr. Robert Piloty, Würzburg. [Auction at Galerie Helbing in Munich, Tuesday, 14th, Wednesday, 15th and Thursday, 16th November 1911] . Helbing, Munich 1911 ( digitized version ); Collection † Privy Councilor Professor Robert Piloty. Coins and medals from Würzburg . In: Otto Helbing Nachf. (Ed.): Coin auction from Monday, October 24, 1927. Otto Helbing Nachf., Munich, Barerstr. 20. Ludwig Jäger Collection, Freiburg im Breisgau Baden, Alsace; Collection of Geh.-Rat Prof. Robert Piloty, Würzburg, Diocese of Würzburg; Coins and medals from many times and countries with many rarities in all areas including well-known series from Passau, Bavaria, Kempten etc. (collections Jäger, Piloty, Hellmansberger etc.). Medieval coins; Collection Hofrat Hermann etc. Greek coins and Roman coins. Numismatic books and coin boxes . Helbing, Munich 1927, pp. 54-92 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Frauke van der Wall: 100 Years of the Franconian Art and Antiquities Association Würzburg (= Mainfränkische Hefte . Hefz 91). Friends of Mainfränkischer Art and History, Würzburg 1993, p. 14.
  7. ↑ Horst Keßler: The art dealer as an opportunist. Karl Haberstock in the "Third Reich" . In: Maike Steinkamp, ​​Ute Haug (ed.): Works and values. About trading and collecting art under National Socialism (= publications of the research center "Degenerate Art" . Vol. 5). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004497-2 , pp. 23–40, here: p. 32.
personal data
SURNAME Piloty, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piloty, Robert Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, politician (DDP) and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1926
Place of death Ebenhausen near Munich